By: Travis Waldron Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The U.S. Women’s National Team gained another ally in its fight for equal pay on Thursday, when the Senate unanimously approved a non-binding resolution calling on the U.S. Soccer Federation to “immediately end gender pay inequity and to treat all athletes with the respect and...

By: Ashley Fantz, Emanuella Grinberg and Jessica Ravitz (CNN) She remembers leaving the neighborhood bar at closing time and walking down the street with the guy who kept an eye on her drink while she ducked into the restroom. She remembers telling him she didn't want to have sex. She remembers the pool of blood between her legs. What happened in...

By: Marianne Levine Politico The White House revealed details Tuesday of its most sweeping action to fight income inequality since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. And unlike Obamacare, it will require no input from Congress. The measure is a Labor Department regulation that will increase by more than four million the...

By: Andrew Ujifusa Education Week The top Democrats on education committees in Congress are telling the U.S. Department of Education to help states gather an appropriately diverse level of feedback from civil rights advocates, teachers, and others, as states consider life under the Every Student Succeeds Act. The Wednesday letter from Sen. Patty...

By: Michael Rose Bloomberg The White House April 21 announced the availability of $90 million in grants to expand apprenticeship programs, as a bipartisan pair of senators said they were working on legislation to strengthen them. The $90 million will be divided between $60 million for states to develop “strategies” to expand...

By: Michael Rose April 14 (BNA) -- Health-care workers experience workplace violence at a higher rate than workers in other industries, and the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration can take steps to help address the issue, according to a Government Accountability Office report released April 14. The report was...

By: Molly Rosbach Yakima Herald U.S. Sen. Patty Murray visited Yakima on Tuesday to talk about newly proposed legislation on substance abuse and mental health treatment, and to hear from recovering addicts about where they feel the system needs improvement most. The event was held at Triumph Treatment Services, which provides outpatient and...

By: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Editorial Board It’s a fact women and many minorities do not seek careers in science, technology, engineering or math at the same rate as white men. The reasons vary by individuals, but there seems to be underlying cultural reasons as to why women and minorities have less access to careers in the STEM fields and...

By: Dave Jamieson Huffington Post Democrats in Congress say it’s time to crack down on wage theft. On Wednesday, three lawmakers introduced a proposal aimed at discouraging unscrupulous employers from shorting their workers on pay. The bill, called the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act, would ramp up the penalties for wage theft and...

The Spokesman-Review SEATTLE (AP) – Sen. Patty Murray says eight health centers across Washington state will receive a total of $2.8 million in grants to help fight opioid abuse and addiction. Community Health Association of Spokane is among them, set to receive $325,000 through the program. The money is part of the Health Resources and...

The Kent Reporter A bipartisan group of U.S. Senate health committee members, including the chairman and ranking member, announced on Monday their plan to address the country’s mental health crisis and ensure Americans suffering from mental illness and substance abuse disorders receive the care they need. The bipartisan draft legislation...

By: Peter Sullivan  The Hill  Leaders of the Senate Health Committee released a bipartisan mental health bill late Monday evening that, while narrower than House legislation, seeks to jump start an effort that has been stalled there. “One in five adults in this country suffers from a mental illness, and nearly 60 percent...

By: Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy Glamour Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, launched a new initiative today aimed at making lawmakers more aware of the student debt crisis affecting college graduates. The website "College Affordability: Share Your Story" encourages...

By: Brady Dennis Washington Post The number of patients harmed by contaminated medical scopes in recent years far exceeds previous estimates from federal regulators, according to findings in a Senate health committee report published Wednesday. During a three-year stretch from 2012 to 2015, specialized devices known as duodenoscopes were linked to...

By: Rebecca Klein Huffington Post The Senate voted on Wednesday to pass an overhaul of No Child Left Behind called the Every Student Succeeds Act. The move comes after the House of Representatives voted to pass the overhaul last week, and over eight years after the No Child Left Behind Act originally expired in 2007. The measure passed the Senate...

Murray: “It’s about time that Congress takes notice of this issue that is straining so many family budgets across our country” (Washington, D.C.) -  Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee joined advocates, parents and workers across the...

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is fighting a losing battle with hopes of winning the war. Last week, Murray sought something called "unanimous consent" on a package of worker-friendly bills she has helped introduce in recent months. In the process, she provided a lesson in the inner workings of Washington, D.C., the give-and-take of politics, and the...

As the Senate starts its month-long recess, Democrats took a parting shot at Republicans for blocking measures they say would benefit workers, an issue that will likely find its way into congressional and presidential campaigns in the fall of 2016. Sen. Patty Murray, ranking Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee...

Sen. Lamar Alexander walked into Sen. Patty Murray’s office and closed the door. Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee, had just taken control of the education committee in the new GOP-led Senate and was determined to rewrite No Child Left Behind, the main K-12 federal education law. It was early February, and he had released a draft of his...

Some college administrators are complaining they already have enough regulations about responding to sexual assault, but lawmakers like Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) have no intention of abandoning plans for new federal rules on the issue. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee will hold its first hearing Wednesday on the Campus...