Patty Murray

This TIGER program is a jobs program. So, for all the talk of all Members of Congress who want to put people to work, this is the way to do it: Keep our commitments.

I'm really troubled by the harsh cuts that the House is proposing to make in the transportation programs that are so important.

But the funding for that project, and many others like it, was left on the cutting-room floor by House Republicans in an effort to meet an arbitrary bottom line.

Keeping enough balances in HTF has been an ongoing problem now for 3 years.

The Congress continues to debate that budget as millions of families and communities across the country wait anxiously to learn the fate of programs they depend upon.

I have spoken to the small business owners and residents of this community who told me that bridge is really their lifeline.

I will continue to fight for high-speed rail, but it is now time for the program to produce a compelling and rigorous plan to justify that support and future funding.

The House proposal goes so far as to eliminate TIGER grants that were already awarded to 75 communities last year.

I was deeply concerned that the House Republican budget would eliminate funding for the highly competitive TIGER Discretionary Grant program.

Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary, and thank you for your openness and continual communication with us on a lot of questions.

I believe winning the future starts at home--and with this budget of targeted investments and tough choices that I respectfully submit, we aim to prove it.

We need to tackle the deficit and make sure our children and grandchildren aren't forced to bear the burden for of overwhelming debt.

We cannot continue to focus all of our attention on this one small part of the budget, the discretionary domestic spending.

We have got to tackle the deficit and we have got to make sure our children and our grandchildren are not forced to bear the burden of overwhelming debt.

As the melting of the polar ice caps in the summer months reveals new natural resources, navigational routes and introduces new national security considerations, the United States will be subcontracting critical icebreaking duties with…

If the rules come out as we saw the draft with the narrow definition, it will not be in keeping with the intent of Congress.

Rather than following the law, the Administration set forth some overly stringent rules, bureaucratic hurdles that would essentially deny help to caregivers.

I want to congratulate you, Chairman Murray, on your selection to lead this great Committee.

I wanted to ask what funds in this budget are directed toward expanding operating hours in women's clinics to make sure that women get the care they need.

I am deeply concerned, first of all, in the lack of communication and the lateness in getting this to us.

It was the intent of Congress that the law not be narrowly defined.

VA's plan on the caregivers' issue was overdue, and once submitted, it hardly resembled the bill that unanimously cleared this Congress.

That is really a huge barrier for women veterans today.

And the budgetary implications if the government does not continue running. I just heard the Secretary say that caring for a homeless veteran costs three and one-half times that of one that we have in the system, and the budgetary…

I know the President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget does not completely reflect the implementation of the recently enacted improvements legislation.