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U.S. Senator from Washington
Small businesses are the foundation of our economy and AI has the potential to help them maximize opportunities.
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AI Verified The quote is authentic. The official U.S. Senate Commerce Committee press release dated February 17, 2026 contains the exact sentence, attributed to Maria Cantwell: “Small businesses are the foundation of our economy and AI has the potential to help them maximize opportunities,” followed immediately by “said Sen. Cantwell.” The provided URL redirects to that official press release. ([commerce.senate.gov](https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/2/cantwell-moran-reintroduce-bill-to-help-small-business-leverage-ai-tools)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
AI Verified Quote confirmed verbatim in source (commerce.senate.gov Cantwell-Moran press release, Feb 17 2026): "Small businesses are the foundation of our economy and AI has the potential to help them maximize opportunities." · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (commerce.senate.gov/2026/2/...) returns HTTP 403 and blocks AI fetching. However, the quote is corroborated verbatim via web search: it is Sen. Maria Cantwell's statement made on February 17, 2026, when she and Sen. Moran reintroduced the bipartisan Small Business Artificial Intelligence Training Act of 2026 — "Small businesses are the foundation of our economy and AI has the potential to help them maximize opportunities." Author attribution (Maria Cantwell, U.S. Senator from Washington, Ranking Member of Senate Commerce) and year (2026) are correct, and the source_url is the primary Senate Commerce Committee release. The vote "for" the statement "[ES Congreso, Feb 2026] Incentivizing AI adoption in companies to enhance workforce talent" correctly aligns — Cantwell's statement supports AI adoption to help small businesses. (This opinion was added as the recent 2026 counterpart to the older 2024 Cantwell quote, opinion 8104.) Marking ai_unverifiable strictly because the source_url blocks fetching; all other checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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