Patty Murray
U.S. Senator · Washington · Democrat · Ranking Member, Appropriations
Statements and posts
474 press releases, floor remarks and posts since Jan 3, 2025.
Pick a week or a day to set the dates below. One count per message: copies of one post on X and Bluesky count once, and reposts aren’t counted. Shading is scaled to Murray’s own volume over the last 12 months (a typical active day = 2). May 25, 2026 – Aug 16, 2026.
6 statements, Oct 5, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026
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Held roundtable opposing Trump administration's AI prior authorization program denying seniors' Medicare coverage.
“Despite a lot of empty promises from Republicans to not cut Medicare—Trump’s new WISeR model is essentially a cut to Medicare. What else do you call it when seniors are getting cut off from the health care they need, for no good reason?”
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Led Washington delegation urging Trump to approve disaster declaration for wildfire recovery.
“As members of the Washington state delegation, we write in support of Washington state’s addendum to include Public Assistance to their September 28th request for a Major Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance due to devastating wildfire damages incurred from July 23rd through August 31st.”
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Held roundtable on AI regulation, emphasized need for federal action without preemption.
“We can’t afford to regulate AI with nothing but a pinky promise. We cannot just wait for the worst risks of this technology to become reality before we take action.”
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Launched working group to develop blueprint for strengthening America's public health system.
“I am honored to work with Senator Murray and my colleagues on this critically important project”
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Government Watchdog: Trump Illegally Blocked Health Research Funding
Criticized Trump administration for illegally blocking health research funding, citing GAO decision.
“This is research that has saved tens of thousands of lives and saved billions of dollars in health care costs—but President Trump and Secretary Kennedy are intent on breaking the law to cut it off, and Republicans in Congress have all but let them do it.”
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Murray on Trump and Duffy’s Plans to Tie Transit Funding to Birth Rates
Criticized Trump administration proposal to tie transit funding to regional birth and marriage rates.
“Tying funding for transit projects to marriage rates and how many babies a woman has is the sort of bizarre and dystopian idea you’d expect in a TV show, not actual policy put forth by the U.S. government—yet here we are.”
Sources: members’ press releases from their official websites (since the 119th Congress began (Jan 3, 2025)), the Congressional Record (since Aug 2026), and Bluesky posts. Quotes are shown only when they match the archived source text word for word; topics are AI-read and mentions are matched from the text.