Patty Murray

I will have to submit them for the record.

Like other infrastructure across Washington State and the Nation, the Ballard Locks are showing their age. Senator Cantwell and I commend the Army Corps for its work to restore and modernize the locks, and we are doing our part in Congress…

Farmers in the Odessa Subarea of the Columbia Basin Project have faced significant challenges for several years

I strongly urge you to complete this work as soon as possible so that eligible ports have access to the appropriated funding and can maximize the effectiveness of Section 2106.

Puget Sound recovery and restoration is critical to my home State of Washington, to the Pacific Northwest, and to the country as a whole.

To most Americans and to me it's clear that this core responsibility is to protect public health and ensure clean air and clean water.

Climate change is a global crisis that requires urgent global action.

This budget is dead on arrival.

As a senator from the state of Washington, EEOICPA is really important to me because we have thousands of workers and their families at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation located in the Tri-Cities who helped America win World War II and the…

Community colleges are important workforce development providers.

I think paid leave is extremely important, but we cannot just throw out a proposal as if because States cannot make up that.

I am really concerned that the President's executive order serves as a distraction from what is happening in this budget.

Do you think that the purpose or the outcome of healthcare reform should be to insure more or less Americans?

What we have done and want to continue to do is invest in jobs in those communities to give people skills they need, and this budget does not do it.

So I am really disappointed that these are in here.

I have not seen any analysis that shows a job increase as a result of this bill. And I think that what we are hearing--a lot of us--is the job losses. To me that is really deeply disconcerting.

This is going to have a devastating impact on jobs as well across the country.

Costs are going to rise.

Obviously, from the CBO numbers, millions of people are going to lose their health insurance.

I am deeply disappointed, as many are, that Trumpcare is planned to be jammed through the Senate this week.

I do hope that Republicans will join Democrats in continuing to reject the devastating cuts in President Trump's budget proposal.

Connecting workers to sustainable jobs and employers to a skilled workforce has been Department of Labor's central mission for decades.

I sincerely hope my colleagues remember that and urge their leadership to hold an open, transparent process.

It is pretty easy to see why. This is going to be a devastating bill and have a tremendous impact on patients and families.

It is my hope to work together to identify priorities and find common ground on how best to responsibly allocate taxpayers' resources.