Patty Murray

Please maintain this commitment and further enhance support for medical research and public health programs as you work with your colleagues on appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.

Most of the complaints here are because these laws have not been updated in 40 years.

This could all be a lot easier if we would decide, together, to come together and fix part of this problem.

It is important that the administration has requested this funding to continue to stabilize the child care system.

Making sure synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, do not cross our borders is really important.

We actually can work together, all of us, on common-sense bipartisan solutions to help us humanely manage encounters at the border.

Making sure we can adequately support the resettlement of these refugee populations is not just the right thing to do, it also supports important national security and strategic interests.

We have got to act on those requests as well as the President's funding requests to meet operational requirements and needs at the Southern border.

Let us talk about funding for mental health and substance use disorder treatments.

None of the people we represent who are on the frontlines of this crisis want us to play politics with their lives.

We can and should be addressing foes, like Putin, and supporting allies and populations facing war and famine all at the same time.

It is vital we do these together in one package and not break them apart, such as an Israel-only bill like the one that the House passed last week.

I am going to continue to do everything I can, and working with everyone I can to make sure we meet this moment.

This could all be a lot easier if we would decide, together, to come together and fix part of this problem.

Most of the complaints here are because these laws have not been updated in 40 years.

I think that you get a lot of criticism for implementing the law.

It is important that the administration has requested this funding to continue to stabilize the child care system.

Making sure synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, do not cross our borders is really important.

We actually can work together, all of us, on common-sense bipartisan solutions to help us humanely manage encounters at the border.

Making sure we can adequately support the resettlement of these refugee populations is not just the right thing to do, it also supports important national security and strategic interests.

Just about every national security official has told us it hamstrings their work to keep America safe.

At such a crucial moment, we cannot afford to treat this as a zero-sum game.

None of the people we represent who are on the frontlines of this crisis want us to play politics with their lives.

Let us talk about funding for mental health and substance use disorder treatments.

We have got to act on those requests as well as the President's funding requests to meet operational requirements and needs at the Southern border.