Patty Murray

This needs a lot of work and oversight and we have got to stay up on top of it.

I really urge you to increase those deliveries and provide all the necessary training.

Our service members should have access to the best, or at least decent housing, not the worst.

I commend the work that you have done so far to get Ukraine the equipment and support they need.

I am a huge believer in public transit. I actually ride the ferries a lot back in my home state of Washington.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Welcome, Secretary Buttigieg; great to see you again, and thanks for joining us.

I really want to commend the administration for placing a really high priority on projects that reduce our carbon footprint.

It is unacceptable for women in crashes to face a greater risk of injury or fatality than men.

We have to make sure the approval process works for families, not just pharmaceutical companies' bottom lines.

Which is why I want to cap insulin costs at $35 a month.

It should also be unthinkable that we would let this moment slip by without looking carefully at what is and is not working at FDA.

We need to learn from these challenges, something Senator Burr and I have already started to work on in our Prevent Pandemics Act.

I am going to keep pressing for answers from FDA leadership on how they will end the pattern of delay and dysfunction here.

Congress has regularly reauthorized the user fee programs in a bipartisan way.

As we have seen throughout this pandemic, this work is incredibly important.

It is no small task ensuring the safety of nearly 80 percent of our Nation's food supply.

Every day, families in Washington State and across the country count on the Food and Drug Administration to keep them safe more times than they even realize.

I am extremely disappointed again this budget would roll back the really important progress we have made to advance cleanup at Hanford.

I want to make clear how important I believe it is for Congress to prioritize making those types of investments and to also start working on completing the fiscal year 2023 bills right away.

I appreciate that and totally agree, and I think that proposal is absolutely critical to helping people get back into the economy, working again, and raising the economy for everyone.

In Senator Murray's Women's Retirement Protection Act, the legislation would enhance upon the SECURE Act provisions to provide access to an even greater number of part time workers.

We need to make sure that women veterans' needs are the focus as we move forward on this.

We are continuing to push VA to improve the user experience for veterans while receiving care and accessing their benefits.

I know we are capable of tackling some really big challenges as a committee and that that includes making sure that our veterans that are harmed by toxic exposures in their service for our country get the care they deserve.

I certainly think when we first passed this, we never expected these kinds of challenges this far into this.