We do need to know from you what programs you will cut in order to deal with that cost increase
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.
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?
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.
I totally am where you are. I am dealing with the immediacy of a budget that does not appear to be growing.
Is there an objective test developed to give to air traffic controllers on assignment yet?
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.
I am very troubled by recent news reports that include stories about air traffic controllers falling asleep on duty.
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.
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.
I am introducing legislation actually right now, focused on this whole issue of employment for all of our service members.
We have to, I believe, work really hard to help them assimilate back into the civilian world and be productive members in our workforce.
I find this large increase to be disturbing and want to know more about what is being done upon the servicemember's return.
We in the State of Washington are very interested in adding a Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) to the ANG.
Are we trying to do a better job of actually helping our guardsmen really know what jobs are back in their own communities?
The soldiers need to get the service equal to the service that they have provided to this country.
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…
It is a legal obligation. It is a moral obligation. It is a real obligation.
It is disappointing that we have to fight the administration year after year after year to meet those legal obligations.
I am concerned that this administration does not seem to take these legal obligations seriously.
I've been pleased to hear about site wide management for infrastructure and support services at Hanford.
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.
We are obviously facing very difficult budget times and unfortunately, the President's budget request reflects that for COE.





