Patty Murray

Democrats are going to continue to stand with women, lift their voices up like today, and push with everything we've got, to restore every woman's right to access abortion care in this country.

I think we can all agree that the issue we're discussing today is an emotional issue.

Today, we take a close accounting of the trauma Republicans are inflicting on women and families across our Country.

I hope everyone truly thinks about what that means for women and how it would change our entire country and our women's rights moving forward across the board.

The struggle for equal pay, for equal work, continues to this day.

It's your life and your choice.

Democrats are going to make sure women's voices are heard in our Nation's capital, including at hearings like this one.

People are saying, we may disagree politically, we may disagree on this or that issue, but very strongly, the American people believe it is women, not the government that has a right to control their own body.

It is really important to me that Americans can retire with dignity.

Well, the President has requested in this budget request to expand the Child Tax Credit and to make permanent full refundability and also advanceability.

It is no exaggeration to say that getting this rulemaking right may deliver tens of thousands of high-wage jobs while reducing emissions.

I have been insisting that we find a solution to address the extremely tight spending caps we are facing.

That expansion nearly cut child poverty rates in half from the previous year, but that progress is being reversed with the expiration now of the CTC.

The Inflation Reduction Act has tasked the Treasury Department with an indispensable role in fighting the climate crisis.

I think it would be dramatic. And as you pointed out, in 2021 CTC is credited with having--it is the leading driver behind a 46 percent reduction in child poverty.

The climate crisis is more than a rolling series of devastating weather disasters. It is also an economic threat and a national security threat.

We cannot cut investments without ceding ground.

I want to see a better balance than increasing nuclear weapon activities by 4 percent to nearly $20 billion, while decreasing nuclear nonproliferation and cleanup by 4-and-a-half percent and over 2 percent, respectively.

I look forward to working together on this year's appropriations bill to make sure we are providing the Army Corps and the Bureau the resources they need.

I will be insisting on parity between new resources for defense and nondefense.

The climate crisis is more than a rolling series of devastating weather disasters. It is also an economic threat and a national security threat.

I want to see a better balance than increasing nuclear weapon activities by 4 percent to nearly $20 billion, while decreasing nuclear nonproliferation and cleanup by 4-and-a-half percent and over 2 percent, respectively.

We cannot cut investments without ceding ground.

I look forward to working together on this year's appropriations bill to make sure we are providing the Army Corps and the Bureau the resources they need.

I will be insisting on parity between new resources for defense and nondefense.