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During a Senate Appropriations Committee markup meeting on Thursday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) spoke about TOPIC.
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00:00she might like to make. Thank you very much Chair Collins and thank you to
00:04Senator Murkowski and Senator Merkley our interior subcommittee leads and
00:08Senator Hyde-Smith and Gillibrand our thud subcommittee leaders for working so
00:13hard and working together to hammer out two bipartisan bills may not be the
00:18bills I would have written on my own certainly more I would love to see us do
00:22and investments in accountability measures I'd like to see but these
00:27bills are serious bipartisan compromises that reject many of the truly harmful
00:32cuts Trump and House Republicans are pushing for and maintains crucial
00:37programs that help make sure folks back home have a roof over their heads safe
00:42reliable transportation and clean air and water in the interior bill we were able
00:47to put together a bill that protects public lands and national parks invests in
00:52fighting wildfires helps live up to our obligations to tribes and invests in
00:57critical work protecting our environment and our families and in the thud bill we
01:01were able to maintain crucial investments to address the housing crisis reject
01:06Trump's deep cuts to rental assistance programs that make sure millions of
01:10families have a roof over their head and invest in transportation
01:14infrastructure across the board including a much-needed increase to hire
01:18more air traffic controllers these are worthwhile investments and they show
01:23just what is possible if we work together and exactly why a bipartisan
01:28process is a better path for everyone than the Trump bills House Republicans seem
01:33intent on writing or another slush fund CR now Russ vote may want to break this
01:38process and make it more partisan he said so he may want to set Congress on a track
01:44for a shutdown but we on this committee can reject that partisan vision that hurts
01:49working families everywhere and we can reject the painful cuts and policies
01:53they're trying to inflict in our communities just as these bills do in fact I
01:58think most of us here recognize that we have to reject that path because at the
02:02end of the day passing funding bills here in the Senate takes 60 votes and that
02:07means that the Trump vote path is choosing a dead end and a shutdown I won't
02:12pretend the work ahead is going to be easy I think every one of us knows
02:16compromise means doing hard work making hard choices and it requires trust
02:22something that unfortunately continues to be chipped away at I hope that
02:27trajectory can be reversed and I look forward to more discussion on each of the
02:31bills before us today thank you
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