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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 12, 2025

Democrats did not have an ounce of input into writing this bill.

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Pramila Jayapal
@pramilajayapal· Democratic · WA· Mar 12, 2025

Do not cave. Vote no on cloture. Stand up for the American people like House Democrats did.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 12, 2025

RFK Jr. is already doing incalculable damage by spreading lies and disinformation as the top health official in America.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 12, 2025

The choice between a shutdown and letting the GOP bill pass has always been a false choice.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 12, 2025

let me be perfectly clear for my colleagues: Democrats want to immediately pass a clean 4-week CR. No one wants a shutdown. We should get this done immediately. Right now, we should be hard at work negotiating bipartisan funding bills that…

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 12, 2025

While I have little to no confidence in the Trump administration to do so, they should immediately nominate someone for this position who at bare minimum believes in basic science and will help lead CDC’s important work to monitor and…

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 12, 2025

As we face one of the worst measles outbreaks in years thanks to President Trump, a vaccine skeptic who spent years spreading lies about safe and proven vaccines should never have even been under consideration.

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Mar 11, 2025

I come to the floor this morning to speak in opposition to the nomination of Steven Bradbury. He is nominated to be the Deputy Secretary of Transportation. When it comes to transportation safety, we don't measure success in dollars saved…

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 11, 2025

Speaker Johnson's slush fund continuing resolution empowers President Trump and Elon Musk to pick winners and losers with taxpayer dollars.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 11, 2025

Ultimately, what they want to do is clear: fire the people who help our kids and gut funding for our students, teachers, and schools.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 11, 2025

if House Republicans don't think they need us when writing a bill, why should they expect us to support that bill, especially when it comes to taking funding away from our families who depend on it and hurting our communities and giving…

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 11, 2025

today, with my colleague Senator Cantwell, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, or PNNL. As one of the Department of Energy's premier national laboratories over the past 60 years, PNNL has…

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Nick Brown
@nickbrown· WA· Mar 10, 2025

The State cannot stand by when elected officials publicly boast that they are breaking state law and putting their own communities at risk.

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Nick Brown
@nickbrown· WA· Mar 10, 2025

Washington has the right and the responsibility to decide for itself how to use its own resources to keep residents safe and the economy strong.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 10, 2025

Families want help to get students' math and reading scores up and ensure their kids can thrive—instead, Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the Department of Education and robbing our students and teachers of the resources and…

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 10, 2025

Ultimately, what they want to do is clear: fire the people who help our kids and gut funding for our students, teachers, and schools.

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Patty Murray
@pattymurray· Democratic · WA· Mar 8, 2025

the job cuts marked an escalation of a 'full-scale, no-holds-barred assault on veterans' by President Donald Trump that would put veterans' health benefits in 'grave danger.'

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Maria Cantwell
@mariacantwell· Democratic · WA· Mar 7, 2025

We need answers now about how the Administration will enforce these laws to ensure aviation safety takes precedence over private gain.

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