The Latest Breaking News from Patty Murray

The acting chief of the country’s top agency for enforcing worker rights will face questions at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday over her efforts to prioritize anti-diversity investigations while sidelining certain racial and gender discrimination cases and quashing protections for transgender workers

In a hearing on Wednesday, senators criticized the Trump administration’s use of military force in Los Angeles

Senators spar with Kennedy on cuts to biomedical research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

The Army Corps of Engineers is directing a disproportionate amount of construction funding to Republican states, according to Senate staff.

House Democrats called on Republicans to install a long-delayed plaque for officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 

Forest and fire officials in Washington state and Oregon say Trump administration funding cuts and a loss of federal workers who help support wildland firefighting continues to make planning for the upcoming wildfire season a challenge

Republican lawmakers expressed concerns Thursday over a Trump administration proposal to restructure the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Kash Patel gave his “full support” to a budget plan that he said Wednesday he was working to avoid because he would have to cut 1,300 jobs.

Advocates of standard time say it’s better for peoples’ circadian rhythms, or “biological clocks.”