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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.
today, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, I introduce the Women Veterans and Other Health Care Improvement Act of 2012. I am incredibly proud of the women and men who have served or are serving our nation in uniform…
today, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, I am pleased to introduce the Homeless Veterans Assistance Improvement Act of 2012. No one who has made sacrifices to serve our Nation should ever be homeless, and this…
I think it's a very important step in making sure that 80 years from now we can really celebrate.
The Women's Sports Foundation is fully supportive of your bill, the High School Data Transparency Act.
This bill would require that high schools report basic data on the number of female and male students participating in their athletic programs and the expenditures made for their sports teams.
It's just really exciting to me that 40 years ago, a mere 37 words really threw open the doors to athletics, education, and success for so many women in our country today.
Well, thank you very much to all of our witnesses for being here and your testimony.
Believe me, to parents, knowledge is a powerful thing. So that information is important.
I, too, am very alarmed by the suicide rate among our servicemembers and our veterans.
We've got to get this right, and we got to get it right now, and we need every effort at it.
A lot of our servicemembers' trust and confidence in the disability evaluation system has been seriously shaken.
I know you have not been there the entire 5 years, but I will tell you this, we've been told for 5 years that DOD and VA are sitting down on a regular basis addressing this.
The Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are losing the battle on mental and behavioral health.
We need some recommendations. We need to move forward. We need this to be a top priority at the Pentagon.
We still today have not gotten this right after this war in making sure that they transition back home.
I think it really is important that our veterans get the best information possible so they can make the best choice for themselves.
I really appreciate the Administration's continued emphasis on getting veterans the training and employment opportunities they need.
Knowledge is power and in this case we feel that Congress should side with veterans.
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