Patty Murray

U.S. Senator (Class 3), WA

Democratic Washington since Jan 3, 2023

Office record: unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

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Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Abortion & Reproductive Rights 1 Healthcare 1 Labor & Employment 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Senator (Class 3), WA current Washington	Democratic	Jan 3, 2023	Jan 3, 2029	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Washington current United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 1993	Dec 31, 2030	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US Senate District Washington United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2017	Jan 3, 2023	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 3), WA Washington	Democratic	Jan 3, 2017	Jan 3, 2023	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 3), WA Washington	Democratic	Jan 5, 2011	Jan 3, 2017	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Washington United States	Democratic	Jan 5, 2011	Jan 3, 2017	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US Senate District Washington United States	Democratic	Jan 4, 2005	Jan 3, 2011	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 3), WA Washington	Democratic	Jan 4, 2005	Jan 3, 2011	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Washington United States	Democratic	Jan 6, 1999	Jan 3, 2005	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 3), WA Washington	Democratic	Jan 6, 1999	Jan 3, 2005	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Washington United States	Democratic	Jan 5, 1993	Jan 3, 1999	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 3), WA Washington	Democratic	Jan 5, 1993	Jan 3, 1999	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Homeland Security unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Financial Services and General Government — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Legislative Branch — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Education and the American Family unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Primary Health and Retirement Security unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Budget unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. -0.357, social dim. -0.312. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
Confirmation: David Perdue, of Georgia, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the People's Republic of China	Nay	Apr 29, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: David Perdue to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the U.S. to the People's Republic of China	Not voting	Apr 28, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Lt. Gen. John D. Caine (Retired) to be General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	Nay	Apr 11, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Lt. Gen. John D. Caine (Retired) to be General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	Nay	Apr 11, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Lt. Gen. John D. Caine (Retired) to be Major General in the Regular Air Force	Nay	Apr 11, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Lt. Gen. John D. Caine (Retired) to be Major General in the Regular Air Force	Nay	Apr 11, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Mark Meador, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner	Nay	Apr 10, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Mark Meador to be a Federal Trade Commissioner	Nay	Apr 10, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 20 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy…	Nay	Apr 10, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 20 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy…	Nay	Apr 9, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Paul Atkins, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission	Nay	Apr 9, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kevin Cabrera, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extrodinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic…	Nay	Apr 9, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Ronald Johnson, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the United…	Nay	Apr 9, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Canada	Nay	Apr 9, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Mike Huckabee, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Israel	Nay	Apr 9, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Paul Atkins to be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission	Nay	Apr 9, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kevin Cabrera to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Panama	Nay	Apr 8, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Ronald Johnson to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the United…	Nay	Apr 8, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Peter Hoekstra to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Canada	Nay	Apr 8, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Mike Huckabee to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Israel	Nay	Apr 8, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: George Glass, of Oregon, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Japan	Nay	Apr 8, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: George Glass to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Japan	Nay	Apr 8, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Elbridge Colby, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy	Nay	Apr 8, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Elbridge Colby to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy	Nay	Apr 7, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HCONRES 14 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary…	Not voting	Apr 5, 2025	Concurrent Resolution Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,002 recorded contributions totalling $1,205,253. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 91 of 1002 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Big donor	68	$187,550	16%
Corporate PAC	20	$117,924	10%
Party	1	$10,901	1%
Super PAC	2	$4,520	0%
Unclassified	911	$884,359	73%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$20,000	SENATE VICTORY 2023	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Sep 30, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$13,508	NAMES IN THE NEWS	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	unclassified	Jul 8, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$11,729	NAMES IN THE NEWS	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	unclassified	Apr 8, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$10,901	SENATE VICTORY 2023 - UNITEMIZED	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Party	Sep 30, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$7,924	MVAR MEDIA LLC	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Jul 20, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$7,803	NAMES IN THE NEWS	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	unclassified	Jan 4, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$7,754	SCREEN STRATEGIES MEDIA	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	unclassified	Jun 15, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$6,900	NAMES IN THE NEWS	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	unclassified	Oct 3, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000	ORGANON & CO. EMPLOYEE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Oct 29, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS POLITICAL ACTION	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Mar 31, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	AMGEN INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Nov 13, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Dec 29, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ARAPAC)	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Oct 24, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BENEFITS AND INSURANCE PROFESSIONALS PAC (NABIP PAC)	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Oct 11, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	ORACLE AMERICA INC PAC	PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY	Corporate PAC	Oct 24, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.