Patty Murray actually said...

"The safe transport of crude-by-rail is of great importance to me and my constituents."

"We need this to get started, because we cannot afford to wait, once the new administration, whoever it is, to reeducate everybody, have new people appointed, and get it started."

"I remain concerned with the pattern I am seeing within the budget requests for Richland Operations (RL) at Hanford."

"I really fear that this budget overall really foreshadows a decision by DOE to claim victory at RL and walk away from all the other cleanup RL is responsible for on the central plateau."