Patty Murray

I am working to reintroduce my Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act, to help provide state and local health departments with the strong, sustained funding that they really need.

If we want to continue to lead on the world stage, we have to continue our global dominance in biomedical research.

I couldn't disagree more with the House Republicans whose proposal to slash NIH funding would mean we will fall behind.

My Prevent Pandemics Act, which was signed into law last year, includes directives to ASPR to assist state and local health departments in accessing the Strategic National Stockpile.

One of the things we really saw in COVID was that we needed accurate data. You can't get ahead of an emergency and create a response to it if you don't have that.

I am working to reintroduce my Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act, to help provide state and local health departments with the strong, sustained funding that they really need.

It is completely unacceptable.

I have to say I am really appalled by recent reporting that an NIH-funded scientist who faced institutional disciplinary action because he was found to have sexually harassed colleagues was simply able to transfer his award from one…

After a global pandemic that brought the world economy to a grinding halt and cost more than one million American lives, House Republicans are seriously suggesting that we slash funding for life-saving research.

We have to make sure that our investments reflect the reality that illness is one of our Nation's deadliest adversaries and biggest economic and national security threats.

I couldn't disagree more with the House Republicans whose proposal to slash NIH funding would mean we will fall behind.

If we want to continue to lead on the world stage, we have to continue our global dominance in biomedical research.

Well, as you know, Tribes in Washington State, and really across the country, they each have unique energy demands and challenges.

Ensuring that our Tribes and indigenous communities have access to clean, reliable power is really critical.

I am certain you understand how strongly I feel about meeting that obligation.

We have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.

If we want to stay ahead we can't just focus on defense spending, we have to invest in the many other programs that keep our country strong, and safe, and competitive.

You can't make assumptions about what communities or what Tribes need, you have got to listen and put in the actual work.

Well, as you know, Tribes in Washington State, and really across the country, they each have unique energy demands and challenges.

It is time intensive, it is resource intensive, that is why it is so important to keep the funding streams coming.

Ensuring that our Tribes and indigenous communities have access to clean, reliable power is really critical.

I am certain you understand how strongly I feel about meeting that obligation.

If we want to stay ahead we can't just focus on defense spending, we have to invest in the many other programs that keep our country strong, and safe, and competitive.

We have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.

Our competitors, like China, are not waiting for us to work out our differences and fund our government.