Tag: Senate Committee on Appropriations

How Patty Murray Won $1 Billion for Child Care as Congress Is Deadlocked

Senator Patty Murray got inspired to enter politics when a male state legislator derided her efforts to fight budget cuts to early education programs, calling her “just a mom in tennis shoes” — a remark she would proudly adopt as her campaign slogan. So it came as little surprise that more than 40 years later, […]

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