I think Sen. Patty Murray’s time has come. She’ll be taking over the gavel of the Budget Committee from Kent Conrad in January, and she just presided over the reelection of every Democratic incumbent as chairwoman of the DSCC. She’ll also have a bunch of new women to work with who she recruited and helped win election: Mazie Hirono, Heidi Heitkamp, Elizabeth Warren, and Tammy Baldwin. A lot of people are indebted to Sen. Murray and she is carrying a lot of water. Her counterpart in the House, the zombie-eyed granny starver Paul Ryan, is going to have his hands full.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
yup. THAT’S MY SENATOR! o/
Mine too! She’s always been in the trenches but generally the last to the podium to shout out her own praises.
Washington State voters, just keep re-electing her to hold this position. She is the gatekeeper for budget reconciliation bills and can leverage that power to accomplish other good stuff.
This is really great news. It makes me feel much better about the prospects of these extremely important budget negotiations. It was also good of the article to remaind us that plutocrat appeaser Kent Conrad is the outgoing Chair of the committee. Bad ideology, bad at his job.
yeah for Senator Murray!!