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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.
reserving the right to object, what the Senator is requesting us to do is to take up the House-passed budget. Remember, we have passed a Senate budget here. We had 50 hours of debate, over 100 amendments were offered. We voted on all of…
I am here today on the floor again to ask that Senate Republicans stop blocking the next step in regular order and allow us to move to a bipartisan budget conference with the House of Representatives. We have waited long enough. In fact…
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to a period of morning business until 5 p.m., with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
I want to thank the Senator from Delaware who spoke about the fact that we are now 53 days since passing the Senate budget. We are pushing very hard as Democrats to keep this process moving and get our budget to a conference committee. I…
I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 10 minute as in morning business, and following me, the Senator from Rhode Island will speak for 5 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The…
I thank Senator Cantwell and Chairman Baucus for coming down here today to discuss port competitiveness, infrastructure, and American jobs, issues which are close to my heart. I believe these are important issues to be addressed, which is…
I rise to address the Water Resources Development Act that we passed today. This important legislation authorizes Army Corp of Engineers projects that provide flood control, ensure navigation to get our goods to market, and help restore…
The more we can save by doing it efficiently, the better off we will be as a country.
It's noteworthy that many of these problems arose about the same time that a prolonged attack on the NLRB commenced.
I have heard some claim that this is a hearing about our unions. But that is inaccurate.
I believe it is really important... that we move to act quickly, approve this package of five nominees.
It's a hearing about whether we believe the laws of our country that protect workers and employers alike should be enforced.
I appreciate you and Senator Ayotte taking the lead on this and really looking at how we can be effective and efficient.
I want to make sure that the project is not delayed as a result of this process, which may jeopardize the project's eligibility for State and Federal funding opportunities.
The Senator would be correct, and I would add one other thought. What he is now asking us to do is to go back and vote on votes we already took when we went through the budget process and amendments did not pass. So he is saying, my…
this is so challenging. It has now been 47 days since we passed our budget. Senate Democrats have now requested unanimous consent to move to conference--the next step--five times. We want to take the next step in this process. We want to…
reserving the right to object, what the Senator is asking is that we go back to what we had votes on throughout the entire budget debate way into the morning hours on the issues of reconciliation, on the issues of revenue that were all…
I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 33, H. Con. Res. 25; that the amendment, which is at the desk, the text of S. Con. Res. 8, the budget resolution passed by the Senate, be inserted in lieu…
As always, we are grateful to Senator Murray for her continued stalwart and thoughtful leadership as we move toward the goal of parity in health care for women who have served their country well in military service.
The Women Veterans and Other Health Care Improvements of 2013, introduced by Senator Murray, we are for this bill strongly.
reserving the right to object, I point out what the Senator requests is for us to redo the budget debate where those amendments were considered and defeated in the Senate, and it is now up to us to go to conference to work out our…
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