Senate Taking ‘Closer Look’ At Secret Service Budget After Trump Assassination Attempt: Patty Murray

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During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) gave opening remarks about pending legislation before the committee.

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00:00Good morning.

00:06The committee will come to order.

00:08Today, the committee will consider the fiscal year 2025 appropriations bills recommended

00:14by the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies, the Subcommittee on

00:20Defense, the Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Education and Related

00:25Agencies.

00:26We are still working on a path forward on FSGG.

00:30We hope to be able to vote on that as well, and we'll be working on that.

00:34So I just would like all members to know at the top, we'll be voting on three of the bills.

00:37We will come back and vote on the fourth as soon as we get an agreement on how we're going

00:41to move forward on that.

00:43With that, I will begin with some opening remarks.

00:46Next, the Vice Chair will give her opening remarks.

00:49And as soon as the opening remarks have concluded and everyone is here, I intend to begin voting

00:55on final passage of the three bills that I mentioned, the other one when we can get

00:59to an agreement.

01:00We have a number of other committees meeting this morning and a short window to have all

01:04of our members here, so I ask everyone to please be here as soon as possible so we can

01:09have full attendance and get the votes done by 10 o'clock.

01:12Following the four votes, we will move to the consideration of amendments to the Energy

01:16and Water Bill, the Defense Bill, the LHHS Bill, and the FSGG Bill when we have that

01:22ready to move forward.

01:24With that, I want to thank Senator Kennedy, who is my Ranking Member of the Energy and

01:28Water Subcommittee, Senator Tester and Collins, who are the Defense Subcommittee and Ranking

01:36Member, Senators Baldwin and Capito, the LHHS Subcommittee Chair and Ranking Member, and

01:42Senators Van Hollen and Hagerty, the FSGG Subcommittee Chair and Ranking Member.

01:46Everyone has worked very hard to pull together their bills, and as this committee knows,

01:51we've already passed over half of our FY25 funding bills, seven of them, in fact, in

01:56overwhelming bipartisan votes.

01:59We are on track to continue that progress today by wrapping up work on more bills, and

02:04we're continuing to work hard to get to a bipartisan agreement on the Homeland Security

02:09Bill.

02:10The additional time we've allowed our committee is to take a closer look at the issues, such

02:14as the Secret Service budget, as we learn more from the assassination attempt of former

02:19President Trump just over two weeks ago.

02:22My hope is that we will be able to mark that bill up when we return.

02:27In the meantime, before us today are strong bipartisan bills that make crucial investment

02:31in our nation's future.

02:33By working together, finding common ground, and rejecting dangerous cuts and extreme policy,

02:38we have once again produced strong bipartisan bills that increase support for families,

02:43strengthen our national security, invest in our economy and competitiveness, and can actually

02:48be signed into law.

02:50These bills make common sense investments in programs that make a real difference for

02:54our nation's future.

02:55There are investments here that strengthen our economy through workforce development,

03:00cutting-edge scientific and biomedical research, support for small business, and major support

03:05for our infrastructure and waterways that are crucial to trade, agriculture, and more.

03:11There are investments in these bills to make families' lives a little easier and help parents

03:15make ends meet, like increased funding for childcare, our K-12 public schools, and to

03:20help students get a higher education, support for community health care and public health

03:25work, resources to make sure families can afford heating and A.C., and much more.

03:31There are investments to protect our environment, whether it's restoring ecosystems for key

03:35species like salmon, addressing extreme weather dangers like flooding, or environmental cleanup

03:42like at the Hanford nuclear site.

03:45And there are investments to protect people in every corner of the country, protect our

03:48nation, and protect our democracy, whether that be protecting consumers from fraud, protecting

03:54communities from opioids and pandemics, protecting our electrical grid from cyberattacks, protecting

04:00our elections from bad actors and foreign interference, or protecting our nation with

04:05strong strategic defense investments.

04:08These are really critical investments we're talking about today, so I'm glad we were able

04:12to work together, like families back home expect us to do, and write bills that meet

04:17the challenges of this moment and set our country up for success.

04:20These are serious, bipartisan bills, bills with funding priorities that can actually

04:25be signed into law, and I hope we are able to get each of them across the finish line

04:29today.

Senate Taking ‘Closer Look’ At Secret Service Budget After Trump Assassination Attempt: Patty Murray

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