Sen. Murray Takes on Trump: And our other Representatives?
Although physically small, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash, has become a power forward in the U.S.Congress. The onetime Shoreline preschool teacher has chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. She is part of her party’s leadership.
At the same time, however, she seemed to settle into the protective cocoon of a Capitol Hill veteran, for whom schedules are prepared weeks in advance, appreciative audiences are selected, and omnipresent handlers hover nearby.
The Trump presidency, while a disaster for America, is bringing out the best in Murray. She grilled Bobby Kennedy, Jr. at his cabinet confirmation hearing. She has redoubled a commitment to women’s health care that began with her first Senate speech 32 years ago. She is pointing out that Trump and Musk neither knows nor cares about working families.
A fighter Murry is, but what of the rest of our delegation in the other Washington? Ten of its twelve members are Democrats in a GOP-controlled Congress. Eight are women during a resurgence of misogyny.
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