Tag: Patty Murray

Democrats’ hope fades for socialized medicine this year

David Hogberg · June 5, 2021 10:06 am

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., assistant Senate minority leader, joined at left by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks with reporters about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh following their weekly policy meetings, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018.

Top Democrats blast Trump as ‘anti-science’ for latest coronavirus comments

David Hogberg · July 6, 2020 8:35 pm

Democrats: Trump lacks ‘serious plan’ to increase coronavirus testing

Caitlin Yilek · May 25, 2020 4:49 pm

The Massachusetts Democrat gave the president an "F" for not living up to his campaign promises to help America's working people. (Senate TV via AP)

Democrats push FDA to lift restrictions on medication abortions in response to pandemic limits on procedures

Cassidy Morrison · April 14, 2020 8:41 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Warren says John Bolton snubbed senators who asked about pandemics

Caitlin Yilek · April 3, 2020 2:18 pm

USA military boots, hat and dog tags with American flag in background.

National Security

Pentagon: 123 military spouses killed themselves in 2017

Russ Read · September 27, 2019 6:10 pm

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said that initial bipartisan talks with Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, were stymied in September as Republicans wanted another shot at repealing Obamacare. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sen. Patty Murray: ‘Mental health issues don’t cause mass shootings’

Julio Rosas · August 10, 2019 12:40 am

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the ranking member, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, meet before the start of a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, the morning after they reached a deal to resume federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump had halted. Sen. Alexander says Trump called him Wednesday morning "to be encouraging" of bipartisan efforts to come up with a plan to stabilize health insurance premiums.

Alexander and Murray release wide-ranging bipartisan plan to lower healthcare costs

Cassidy Morrison · May 23, 2019 5:35 pm

House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., argue during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington.

Trump tells Schumer, Pelosi he wants to revisit failed bipartisan Obamacare stabilization bill

Cassidy Morrison · April 30, 2019 9:19 pm

Feds investigate claims linking Johnson’s baby powder to cancer

James Langford · February 21, 2019 4:10 pm

Del. Kathy Tran, D-Fairfax, addresses fellow members of the Virginia House of Delegates at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., Friday, Feb. 1, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Senate Democrats just showed they actually support Kathy Tran’s late-late-term abortion bill

Becket Adams · February 5, 2019 9:05 pm

Sen. Chuck Schumer speaks during an event.

Senate Democrats push vote to defend Obamacare

Kimberly Leonard · January 15, 2019 6:34 pm