Chair's Press

Murray voices support for federal workers, condemns Trump Administration executive orders targeting federal employees’ right to organize and ability to collectively bargain   Murray: “The federal government should be a model for employers—demonstrating how to treat their workers fairly and with respect.”   Murray...

Senator Murray praised HELP Committee passage of legislation to help increase drug price transparency, support families dealing with congenital heart defects and Sickle Cell disease, and increase dental access   Drug pricing transparency bill would help patients get information about the most affordable way to get the drugs they need and...

Murray made clear that President Trump’s decision to nominate Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court threatens the right to safe, legal abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade   Murray: “Roe, and the rulings that have upheld it, make clear what women across the country know at their core to be true—that reproductive freedom is...

Secretary DeVos’ proposed borrower defense rule would cut $12.7 billion dollars in relief to students who were cheated or defrauded by predatory colleges   Secretary DeVos delayed a previous rule that would have provided cheated students with relief and attempted to provide students with partial relief   Murray: “For more than...

Almost one year after harmful Trumpcare proposal failed in the Senate, Murray highlights President Trump’s efforts to sabotage families’ health care on his own   Murray condemned ongoing health care sabotage by the Trump Administration which has hiked premiums, eroded patient protections, slashed investments that help people find...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., along with Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Ranking Member Patty Murray, D-Wash., applauded the Senate’s passage of legislation to reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education (CTE) Act.   The Strengthening...

Approximately 47,000 student loan borrowers that were cheated or defrauded by Corinthian Colleges received a notification from the IRS that they will be taxed on relief from their student debt   IRS has already clarified that relief on federal loans is not taxable, Senators Murray and Wyden are requesting guidance for students with private...

According to news reports this month, at World Health Assembly, Trump Administration attempted to use strong-arm tactics to torpedo resolution supporting breastfeeding   Despite past U.S. support for breastfeeding, Trump Administration ignored evidence and public health experts and strongly opposed resolution supporting health of women and...

Senator Murray, Senator Blumenthal, and experts from American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists outlined the potential damage of the Trump-Pence Administration’s proposed changes to federal family planning program   Administration’s proposal would restrict access to care for millions of women and interfere with...

Murray, and 21 cosponsors, introduced new legislation in response to ICE’s poor treatment of pregnant women in detention   In March, Trump Administration publically ended Obama-era policy against detaining pregnant women   Trump Administration changed policy despite opposition of more than 250 civil and human rights...

At latest HELP hearing on health care costs, Murray condemned the Trump Administration’s health care sabotage, which has hiked premiums and eroded patient protections   Murray criticized President Trump’s toothless drug pricing blueprint, and released a new report outlining how drug prices have climbed since the start of the Trump...

Today, over 130 groups and individuals petitioned OSHA to create a national heat safety standard   Washington state is one of only three states with a protective heat standard for workers   Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee,...

Government Accountability Office study found that states and local communities are devoting more resources to the students who need the most support   Approximately 4.6 million youth ages 16 to 24 were neither in school nor employed in 2016   In 2014, Murray passed the bipartisan Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to update...

New report from government watchdog finds former Health Secretary Tom Price misused government funds for private travel   Price resigned in disgrace last year over reports of his abuse of public funds for private flights   OIG report found 20 improper flights, costing well over $341,000 in taxpayer dollars   Murray: “The...

Bipartisan and bicameral coalition reintroduced Survivors’ Access to Supportive Care Act (SASCA), on press call featuring Members of Congress and advocates for sexual assault survivors   SASCA would expand access to forensic examinations, help develop national standards of care for survivors of sexual assault, and improve access to care...

As several pending cases about women’s constitutional right to make their own health care decisions work their way through lower courts, President Trump’s alarming nominee for SCOTUS would be a deciding vote against women’s reproductive rights   Judge Kavanaugh was vetted by conservative groups determined to find candidates...

President Trump’s nominee for SCOTUS represents a serious threat to protections for people with pre-existing conditions   Judge Kavanaugh and President Trump have both criticized Chief Justice Roberts for not striking down the Affordable Care Act   Murray previously voted against Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the D.C....

Trump Administration slashes funding even further for Affordable Care Act navigators; doubling down on cuts announced last fall   Murray: President Trump has chosen a Supreme Court nominee who has already made clear he’ll stand with President Trump, not families, when it comes to health care in our country   WASHINGTON, D.C. –...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Health and Human Services where the Office of Refugee Resettlement is housed, issued the following statement on the Trump Administration’s failure...

Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) hosted forum on organized labor’s path forward following the Supreme Court Janus decision and role of dark money in bankrolling anti-union, anti-worker campaigns   In Janus decision, Supreme Court majority sided with corporate special interests over workers, undermining collective...