Patty Murray has represented Washington in the U.S. Senate since 1993. Ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee; ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development.
A former preschool and parenting teacher, Murray served on a King County school board and in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993.
Murray earned a Bachelor of Arts from Washington State University in 1972, worked as a preschool teacher and as a parenting teacher at Shoreline Community College, and served on a King County school board. Murray served in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993 before entering the U.S. Senate in 1993. Senate leadership posts included assistant minority leader from 2019 to 2021, assistant majority leader from 2021 to 2023, and president pro tempore from 2021 to 2025.Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
MOST RATEDSenator Patty Murray criticized proposed budget cuts to HHS programs, arguing they were being sacrificed to fund military spending.
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Murray condemned the cuts and urged Republicans to join efforts to stop the administration from withholding funds.
Murray called the cuts a theft from the public and said Democrats had tried unsuccessfully to block the strategy.
Murray pressed Overton on mifepristone safety and whether IUDs are abortifacients.
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Murray joined Chris Murphy in asking Homeland Security to explain the use of taxpayer funds for ads promoting Trump.
MOST RATEDMurray mistakenly addressed an abortion-related criticism of a federal judge to the lead singer of The Killers.
Twitchy disputes Murray’s statement that Republican-led tax cuts have been the biggest driver of the national debt.
MOST RATEDSenator Patty Murray criticized proposed budget cuts to HHS programs, arguing they were being sacrificed to fund military spending.
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