Patty Murray
U.S. Senator · Washington · Democrat · Ranking Member, Appropriations
Statements and posts
474 press releases, floor remarks and posts since Jan 3, 2025.
Activity, last 12 weeks
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3 statements, Oct 14, 2026
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Launched Public Health for America Working Group to restore trust in public health after political attacks.
“I’ve worked with health secretaries under five presidents. Republicans and Democrats. People I agreed with and people I disagreed with. But at the end of the day, every one of them understood that their job was to protect the health of the American people. They listened to the scientists. They trusted the experts.”
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Called on Education Department to reverse grant frontloading tactic reducing funding to schools by over $600 million.
“This administration has chosen—brazenly and repeatedly—to prioritize its own backwards agenda over the needs of students, families, and communities across the United States. The Department of Education’s extensive ‘frontloading’ of grants is just the latest example”
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Celebrated opening of Agricultural Research Service Plant Sciences Building at WSU after securing $125 million.
“At a time when our federal research enterprise is under serious threat by overt political interference and a hollowing out of our scientific workforce, today’s milestone offers a bright spot.”
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