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Patty Murray represents Washington State as the senior Senator, a seat she has held since 1992.
She was inspired to run for office by the threatened closure of her children's’ preschool program. After a legislator in Olympia called her a “mom in tennis shoes,” she organized over 13,000 people into a grassroots coalition to save the program. She then won election to the Shoreline School Board, and in 1988, the Washington State Senate. She was moved to run for the US Senate in 1991 after seeing only 2 women in the Senate during the Anita Hill hearings.
Sen. Murray has broken a number of glass ceilings during her time in the Senate. She was the first female chair of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee in the 112th Congress, and first female chair of the Senate Budget Committee during the 113th Congress. She is currently the chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
