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Comment by Maria Cantwell
U.S. Senator from Washington
have access to AI training and reskilling [...] This bill gives small businesses a boost with new tools to thrive as we step into this innovative era.AI Verified source (2024)
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AI Verified
Checked author attribution, year, vote alignment, source, and relevance. The source_url (commerce.senate.gov/2024/6/...) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirmed the quote VERBATIM as Senator Maria Cantwell's statement on the bipartisan Small Business AI Training and Toolkit Act of 2024 (introduced 12 June 2024): she said all American entrepreneurs "especially our small businesses – have access to AI training and reskilling in the 21st-century marketplace" and "This bill gives small businesses a boost with new tools to thrive as we step into this innovative era." (The [...] elides between the two phrases.) Author (Maria Cantwell, U.S. Senator from Washington) and year (2024) are correct. Year 2024 is older than 2025 but the quote remains relevant to the statement "Incentivizing AI adoption in companies to enhance workforce talent," so I KEPT it. The quote captures the whole meaning (AI tools + training/reskilling for small businesses). The vote is "for," correctly aligning with Cantwell's supportive stance. Per instructions, I also found and ADDED a genuine 2026 quote from the same author: Cantwell's statement on the Feb 2026 reintroduction (commerce.senate.gov/2026/2/...), created as opinion 9840 and linked to statement 407 with a "for" vote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 15h ago
replying to Maria Cantwell