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Patty Murray

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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.

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May 11, 2011

We do need to know from you what programs you will cut in order to deal with that cost increase

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May 11, 2011

If more funds are needed for ERAM, will you be identifying which programs will be cut in order to make room for the cost increases on those?

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May 11, 2011

Those are issues we are dealing with in every program here, and we are trying to be sober about what we can realistically do. So we will work with you.

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May 11, 2011

As we face these continuing budget cuts, we have to know that.

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May 11, 2011

I totally am where you are. I am dealing with the immediacy of a budget that does not appear to be growing.

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May 11, 2011

Is there an objective test developed to give to air traffic controllers on assignment yet?

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May 11, 2011

In following a lot of these news reports, the FAA announced it was pulling together this working group that will make recommendations about how new air traffic controllers are trained and placed into FAA facilities.

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May 11, 2011

I am very troubled by recent news reports that include stories about air traffic controllers falling asleep on duty.

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May 10, 2011

I am very concerned about the increasing rise in Guardsmen suicides.

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May 10, 2011

We have to keep people in the Guard and Reserves. And if they go home and can't find a job, they are going to abandon us.

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May 10, 2011

We are looking at trying to make that broader.

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May 10, 2011

It is really disheartening to hear the stories from our National Guard members who are coming home from deployment into a poor economy and joblessness, no health insurance, financial hardship.

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May 10, 2011

I am introducing legislation actually right now, focused on this whole issue of employment for all of our service members.

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May 10, 2011

We have to, I believe, work really hard to help them assimilate back into the civilian world and be productive members in our workforce.

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May 10, 2011

I find this large increase to be disturbing and want to know more about what is being done upon the servicemember's return.

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May 10, 2011

We in the State of Washington are very interested in adding a Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) to the ANG.

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May 10, 2011

Are we trying to do a better job of actually helping our guardsmen really know what jobs are back in their own communities?

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May 10, 2011

The soldiers need to get the service equal to the service that they have provided to this country.

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Apr 13, 2011

I thank all of my Democratic women colleagues for coming today and speaking so passionately, as the Senator from Maryland has just done, on issues we feel so deeply about. You will be hearing from all of us because we are outraged that the…

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Apr 12, 2011

It is a legal obligation. It is a moral obligation. It is a real obligation.

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Apr 12, 2011

It is disappointing that we have to fight the administration year after year after year to meet those legal obligations.

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Apr 12, 2011

I am concerned that this administration does not seem to take these legal obligations seriously.

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Apr 12, 2011

I've been pleased to hear about site wide management for infrastructure and support services at Hanford.

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Apr 12, 2011

If the administration intends to move forward with the proposed modified funding profile for the waste treatment plant, the only successful way to achieve that is for the administration to increase funding for the entire EM program.

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Apr 12, 2011

We are obviously facing very difficult budget times and unfortunately, the President's budget request reflects that for COE.

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