Patty Murray

Spending cuts alone are not going to put Americans back to work or put our budget back in balance.

The American people are looking at this committee with great optimism but also with real skepticism.

We have heard over and over and over again about the need to review and reduce redundant, wasteful, inefficient government spending.

I think we need to be focused on job creation and long-term debt reduction.

We must balance the budget with a balanced approach that includes job creation, revenue increases, and smart spending cuts.

I think most people do agree that such high tax rates make the United States a less attractive place in which to do business.

I am willing to make tough compromises. I have said that if the distance between an opponent and me is five steps, I am willing to take three, as long as the opponent takes the other two.

I wish to announce that Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will meet in open session on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at 10:30 a.m., in room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``The History and…

I wish to announce that Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will meet in open session on Thursday, September 8, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, to consider proposed committee rules. JOINT…

The controversial pick tonight is Senator Murray. She is a trusted lieutenant to Harry Reid in the Democratic leadership.

I hope we can further strengthen these laws in 2012.

I appreciate the job you do.

I do not support those specific proposals because they negatively impacted benefits, which I believe we should not be touching.

I will say that the military was responsible at this point, and Secretary Lynn is personally involved.

I really believe that your testimony today will go a long way in helping us do a better job.

I am concerned about the lack of separate women-only inpatient mental health care units that we are hearing about as well.

I thank Chairman Murray for helping get the issue resolved but it should not take me talking to a U.S. Senator to help my husband.

We cannot balance our budget at the expense of the health care and benefits our veterans have earned.

Thanks to the strong pro-veteran leadership of Senator Patty Murray, the daughter of a World War II veteran, VA was given additional resources to meet the tidal wave of new, first-time Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran patients flooding…

Thank you very much, Senator Brown.

I would really appreciate that.

We must include the cost of caring for our veterans and families long after the fighting is over.

How can we expand proven approaches, such as on-the-job training, incumbent worker training, sector strategies and registered apprenticeships?

We do have a skills gap. ... This has to be part of our economic recovery.

I think we are working very hard to get a good, solid bill out to address that.