Meet the women trying to avoid a spending train wreck in Congress.
Rep. Kay Granger , who leads the House Appropriations Committee, at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 26, 2022.
The group will play a pivotal role this year in what is expected to be an epic and high-stakes fiscal battle whose two principal players, President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., met for the first time Wednesday to feel each other out for the coming fight.Etched alongside Murray’s name is that of Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the panel. In the House, Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, is the newly installed chair of the Appropriations Committee, and Rep.
In congratulatory and birthday phone calls and quiet asides at meetings where they have gathered to document their collective accomplishment, the women have discussed their desire to return to the days when the powerful spending panels publicly worked for months to hammer out and pass a dozen individual funding bills.
Lawmakers in both parties have also grumbled about how the spending process has become increasingly distorted into a last-minute scramble, where a few senior lawmakers jam funding and other policy priorities into a catchall package released with just days to spare before a year-end shutdown. “We often think of our families in our communities,” said Murray, who also became the first woman to serve as Senate president pro tempore this year, a position that puts her third in line to the presidency. “I see the appropriations as an opportunity for women to really work on making sure their country is OK.
“We have all worked on important policy issues ranging from defense and national security to transportation to education. All of these issues are important to women, and they will continue to be priorities for us,” Granger said. “We’ll have our work cut out for us over the next two years because my constituents are demanding we find reasonable, sensible and responsible ways to get control of runaway spending in Washington.
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