The hearing room broke into laughter, knowing full well that the new sheriff in town — Sen. Patty Murray , chair of the powerful panel — runs a very efficient operation.
By close of business Thursday, Murray’s committee is expected to approve the last four of the 12 annual bills that fund the federal agencies, almost all by unanimous votes or with just one or two dissenters. In a previous era that would be a normal, run-of-the-mill accomplishment, but over the past decade, things have turned horribly abnormal for the appropriations committees.
Enter Murray, who along with her GOP partner, Sen. Susan Collins , has formed the first all-woman leadership of the committee. They mapped out a plan to re-energize the panel and, through their pledge of “regular order,” to give senators full participation in the must-pass bills through debate and amendments on the Senate floor.
“They just want us to do our jobs,” Murray said of voters during an interview in her corner office of the Capitol’s first floor. “They don’t love every decision we make, of course, obviously. But they don’t want it to cause chaos in their own lives. So my goal is to make sure that we don’t do that.”
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