Patty Murray

The investments that we make in this subcommittee help keep families and communities healthy by supporting programs that reduce infant mortality, train our doctors and nurses, provide care in rural communities, and prevent the spread of…

I also want to thank the full Subcommittee for your work in providing substantial new resources for the National Institutes of Health.

Patients and families across the country are waiting and hoping for better cures and treatments.

I know members on both sides of the aisle agree on the importance of medical research--so this is not a partisan issue.

I'm deeply troubled that some Republicans want to return to a time when there were more stories like Marci's.

Republicans are, as we speak, rushing to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which expanded health coverage to 20 million Americans.

Cutting non-defense spending by $54 billion would require devastating cuts to the education, health, and training programs that this subcommittee funds.

I am very deeply troubled that some Republicans want to return it to a time when there are more stores like Marci's.

I know that Washington State's expanded Medicaid program has really strengthened our State's safety net by covering the lowest income individuals.

How damaging would it be to your patients that you treat if there was the efforts here to repeal the ACA occurred?

We also know that because of the ACA, hospitals have seen their uncompensated care burden drop by $10 billion.

I hope that won't happen. I ask my Republican colleagues to drop this harmful repeal effort once and for all, and start working with us to build on the progress made to help families and communities get the mental healthcare they need.

The ACA has helped 62 million Americans gain access to behavioral healthcare services by, first of all, expanding Medicaid.

The investments in the Labor H bill will mean very little if Republicans continue with their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

I want to thank the Senator from Illinois, who is an amazing new and great Member of our Senate. She comes from Illinois. She comes from an incredible background and is asking a critical question about whether our students with…

Let me revise my request. I ask unanimous consent that we continue to have this conversation until a quarter to 12 p.m.; that at a quarter to 12, I will give my final remarks and divide equally the last 15 minutes so the chairman of the…

I thank the Senator for her question. I just want to say that she is absolutely right. The money is not magic. It doesn't just get printed to give vouchers to schools. It comes from our public schools. As she stated so eloquently, there…

I have had the opportunity over the last almost 24 hours now to hear from a wide swath of our Democratic conference speak out against the nomination because they feel so strongly that in this country public education is a core principle. I…

Should this yet be another step by the administration to roll back women's health and rights, you better expect a very strong opposition from this Senator, Democrats, and women across the country.

Do you believe it would be wrong to use families' health care as a political bargaining chip?

Now, families in my State and across the country are frankly scared about the health care chaos that President Trump is causing.

We rejected the ill-conceived and expensive border wall paid for on America's taxpayers' dime.

He promised the middle class he would make the economy work for them. What we have in front of us today with this budget is a perfect summary of all the ways those promises have been broken.

You know, President Trump spent his campaign promising workers he would stand with them. He promised seniors he would protect their care.

We need stability and predictability for a longer period of time