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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 am proud to introduce the Dignified Burial of Veterans Act of 2012 with Senator Burr, Ranking Member of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and my Senate colleagues from…
I wish to thank Senator Conrad for his leadership on this issue. At the end of last week, the Republicans in the House of Representatives passed legislation that continues their mad dash away from the bipartisan Budget Control Act and…
it is very hard to believe that today marks exactly 2 months since I first came to the floor to advocate passage of the Senate's version of the Violence Against Women Act. I was very encouraged to see our body finally come together and…
we are here today because unless Congress acts, the interest rate for many of our students--over 100,000 of them in my home State of Washington--is going to double in 55 days. On July 1, the law we passed that held rates on federally…
it is a shame it has taken so long to get to this point, but I am very glad to see we are close to having this body move forward on this legislation. The Violence Against Women Act has helped provide lifesaving assistance to hundreds and…
The new 1,600 mental health providers that you allocated and the information that we got from the Department yesterday on where that was going to go is not supported by any concrete facts or evidence.
I want to ask you specifically how are you going to make sure that 1,600 new mental health care providers that you announced do not remain 1,600 new vacancies?
Critically, access to VA health care in a timely fashion is absolutely essential.
I intend to stand up to it, and I expect all of you to stand up to it as well.
This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome all of you to today's hearing to evaluate VA access to mental health care services.
You better take a very hard look at some of the other areas of care for similar disconnects.
I think it is an incredible failure of leadership that no one was looking into this.
She learned about the new positions only a couple days ago, did not know if it was sufficient, and did not know how the Department even reached those numbers.
I come to the Senate floor this evening to express my strong opposition to the resolution of disapproval filed by Senate Republicans that seeks to overturn critical new NLRB rules that will protect workers across America. I strongly urge…
today, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, I am pleased to introduce the Servicemembers Rights Enforcement Improvement Act of 2012. I remain deeply committed to protecting our servicemembers and veterans. I was…
today, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, I am proud to introduce the GI Bill Consumer Awareness Act of 2012. My colleagues, including my fellow Veterans' Affairs Committee Members Senators Akaka, Begich, Brown of…
I would like to take a moment today to recognize the dedication of women service members and women veterans in celebration of Women's History Month. Women have played an important role in our Nation's military from the time of our Founding…
Is BOR committed to timely completion of the Study and to playing a significant role in finding solutions to the water supply problem of the Columbia Basin Project area?
I continue to have a number of concerns, not only about the situation at Madigan today but the implication for our soldiers.
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