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Patty Murray

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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.

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Feb 16, 2025

We strongly suggest your administration pay far closer attention to the work carried out by the federal employees subject to these seemingly indiscriminate and arbitrary layoffs.

msnbc.com
Feb 16, 2025

We find it deeply troubling that the Department ... has sent a strong message that it does not view the oversight and safety of legacy nuclear weapons cleanup sites as a national security priority.

msnbc.com
Feb 16, 2025

The firings last week are utterly callous and dangerous.

cbsnews.com
Feb 16, 2025

To order the firing of employees without knowing that NNSA is responsible for maintaining a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear weapons stockpile while also preventing, countering, and responding to a terrorist or other adversary with a…

msnbc.com
Feb 16, 2025

Until such time as we are briefed on these developments, we will not know the damage to our country and the world as a result of these haphazard and thoughtless firings.

msnbc.com
Feb 16, 2025

We are alarmed about the thousands of probationary employee firings across the Department of Energy.

msnbc.com
Feb 16, 2025

The firings last week were utterly callous and dangerous.

cbsnews.com
Feb 16, 2025

The efforts to fire employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration are shocking.

msnbc.com
Feb 15, 2025

there is simply no authority or basis for Trump to impose such a mandate.

commondreams.org
Feb 15, 2025

this threat to rip away the federal funding our public K-12 schools and colleges receive flies in the face of the law.

commondreams.org
Feb 15, 2025

I hope no parent, student, or teacher is intimidated by these threats—this former preschool teacher certainly is not.

commondreams.org
Feb 15, 2025

Rather than trying to make college more affordable or helping to improve our kids' outcomes, Trump is letting far-right extremists inject politics into the classroom at every turn.

commondreams.org
Feb 15, 2025

Republicans tell you they want to empower local communities and that states, schools, and parents know best, and again and again use top-down threats to achieve their culture war agenda.

commondreams.org
Feb 13, 2025

not because their work isn't desperately needed, but because Trump and Elon have decided to fire these researchers on a whim.

cbsnews.com
Feb 12, 2025

one CTI graduate from Washington State who had graduated with high honors, passed an FAA test for initial qualification, has almost five years of service in the air force, and a commercial pilot certificate but was disqualified from…

vox.com
Feb 12, 2025

one CTI graduate from Washington State... was disqualified from consideration by the biographical assessment.

vox.com
Feb 12, 2025

Running farmers out of business, derailing infrastructure projects, cutting cancer research and killing good-paying clean energy jobs isn’t just unpopular, it’s devastating for working people everywhere.

nbcnews.com
Feb 12, 2025

It is stunning to me that [Linda McMahon] wants to [DOE] but couldn't name EVEN ONE part of this basic federal education law she would focus on. It's disqualifying.

newsweek.com
Feb 12, 2025

thank you to my colleague from Oregon, who has very clearly stated why this nominee is not someone who should be holding the title of Secretary of Health and Human Services, and I appreciate all of his work on this, and his wife's work. I…

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Feb 12, 2025

one CTI graduate from Washington State had graduated with high honors, passed an FAA test for initial qualification, has almost five years of service in the air force, and a commercial pilot certificate but was disqualified from…

vox.com
Feb 11, 2025

Make no mistake, this is just the first step Trump and Musk are taking to abolish the Department of Education.

newsweek.com
Feb 11, 2025

Every kid deserves a great public education and that can't happen without nonpartisan research and data to understand what's working and what needs to be fixed.

newsweek.com
Feb 8, 2025

Democrats and Republicans alike must be able to trust that when a deal gets signed into law, it will be followed.

nbcnews.com
Feb 8, 2025

We want to make sure that once we come to an agreement, it can’t just be thrown out the window after it’s passed into law by a lawless Trump-Elon administration that is currently running things.

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