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Patty Lynn Murray is a United States Senator from Washington, serving since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, she has held various leadership positions in the Senate, including serving as the Senate's first female President pro tempore. Throughout her tenure, Murray has focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and women's rights, advocating for policies that support working families and promote economic growth.
Due to their interrelated nature, the responses to the posthearing questions submitted by Senators Murray and Burr to the Department of Veterans Affairs were merged in with the responses from the Department of Defense appearing earlier in…
I asked our Committee staff to conduct an investigation into the Joint Disability Evaluation System.
I intend to stand up to it, and I expect all of you to stand up to it as well.
She learned about the new positions only a couple days ago, did not know if it was sufficient, and did not know how the Department even reached those numbers.
I want to ask you specifically how are you going to make sure that 1,600 new mental health care providers that you announced do not remain 1,600 new vacancies?
You better take a very hard look at some of the other areas of care for similar disconnects.
The new 1,600 mental health providers that you allocated and the information that we got from the Department yesterday on where that was going to go is not supported by any concrete facts or evidence.
I think it is an incredible failure of leadership that no one was looking into this.
Critically, access to VA health care in a timely fashion is absolutely essential.
This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome all of you to today's hearing to evaluate VA access to mental health care services.
I continue to have a number of concerns, not only about the situation at Madigan today but the implication for our soldiers.
Is BOR committed to timely completion of the Study and to playing a significant role in finding solutions to the water supply problem of the Columbia Basin Project area?
The dysfunction of the claims system, the volume of work at the Court and the valuable role that it does play in the lives of veterans makes clear the importance of these nominations.
FRA thanks the distinguished leaders of these Committees, Rep. Miller and Sen. Patty Murray, for working to advance legislation to authorize tax credits to employers that employ veterans and disabled veterans.
I echo your statements, and I specifically highlight the moving dedication ceremony.
I am concerned as the Army begins to downsize by 80,000 soldiers over the next 5 years, how these soldiers will transition in a difficult economy and how that will impact the Army's bottom line with the increasing tab for unemployment…
The Congress has been pushing you to move forward for years on this effort, we passed legislation that you voted for as a House member many years ago, and yet after 10 years of war you are still talking about a pilot program and an…
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