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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's hearing marks another important step as we work to return to regular order and pass in a timely bipartisan way our funding bills to keep our families safe, our economy strong, and our Nation competitive with adversaries like China.
Effective water management is essential to keeping our families healthy, our environment thriving and our economy competitive.
This is so important. We have to stay apprised of this progress and we need to keep moving on this.
I do support efforts to move forward only after you are confident about the safety and effectiveness of the system.
We can fulfill our commitment to make sure veterans receive the care and support they earned, including veterans who experience toxic exposures.
Every single member of this committee voted to pass the PACT Act because we know veterans who are exposed to toxins in the line of duty deserve care.
President Biden's budget shows he also understands that when we make a promise to our veterans our word has to be ironclad.
No one who has put their life on the line for our country should struggle to provide for their family.
When it comes to our veterans, we cannot cut corners, we can't break our promises, and we can't let partisan politics get in the way of passing funding the VA needs.
Let us be clear, anything other than a regular appropriations process will have negative impacts across the VA.
Upholding our promises to our veterans isn't just critical to our country; it is really personal to me.
Bottom line, if we fail to fund the VA and in a timely way, it is our Nation's veterans who pay the price.
Ensuring that our Tribes and indigenous communities have access to clean, reliable power is really critical
The Federal Government has a legal and moral obligation to clean up the Hanford Site, and protect Hanford workers.
I look forward to working together on this year's appropriations bills, to make sure that we provide the Department of Energy and National Security Administration the resources that you need.
You know, industrial emissions made up roughly 30 percent of the U.S. climate emissions, and to address the climate crisis we need to modernize our industrial manufacturing base, and work to reduce emissions across the cement, steel…
We recently provided $75 million in the Inflation Reduction Act for the Tribal Loan Guarantee Program
If we are going to continue to lead on the world stage, we have to lock arms, work together, and make sure our funding keeps pace at this critical moment.
We have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.
We cannot seed ground and let countries like China get ahead of us and capitalize on the defining discoveries of the future.
Water is just too important to our families, our economy, and our Nation to take for granted.
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