Meeting with Head Start Directors

Senator Murray meets with Head Start directors from the Puget Sound and Olympic Peninsula region to discuss the Congressional reauthorization of Head Start and to tour the Rosemary Moen Head Start Center.

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Murray Visits with Seniors in Hoquiam

Senator Murray met with seniors at the Hoquiam Senior Center to discuss the new Medicare Rx Drug bill and other issues important to them including the ability to purchase drugs from Canada, high energy costs, saving Social Security and housing.

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Rolling Out Telecom Access

Construction begins on the project that will help provide high-speed telecom services to Sappho, WA and the surrounding community.

Senator Murray broke ground with telecommunications officials at the U.S. Highway and West Twin Rd. site and delivered the keynote address in the ceremony praising local efforts to bridge the so-called "Sappho Gap." (08/09/02)

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Meeting with Tribal Representatives

Senator Murray met with (from left to right) Vincente Cooke of Neah Bay (Makah Tribe) and Ryan Sense Wilson of Seattle (Oglala Lakota Tribe), ambassadors from WA state, here for a program with Americans for Indian Opportunity.

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Meeting with Health Care Advocates for the Uninsured

Senator Murray meets with health care advocates from Washington state. These advocates receive funding under the Community Access Program (CAP), a federal program to strengthen health care services for the uninsured. For the past three years, Senator Murray has fought to prevent the Bush Administration from eliminating CAP.




Pictured with Senator Murray from left to right are: Kristen West - the Executive Director of CHOICE Regional Health Network - a CAP grantee that serves Thurston, Mason, Lewis, Grays Harbor and Pacific counties, Lisa Podell, Kirsten Wysen, Susan Johnson - the Director of King County?s ?Kids Get Care? Program (With CAP funding, ?Kids Get Care? is connecting over 7,000 children to comprehensive health care),
Ralph DeCristaforo, and Anna Shelton.

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Expanding Small Business and Technology

Sen. Murray tours the Forks West End Business and Technology center and speaks with students about the need for expanded technology.

Sen. Murray secured $100,000 in federal funding in this year's VA-HUD Appropriations bill for the center, which provides business services to help mentor and expand small businesses in the community. (08/09/02)

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Murray hears from members of the Quileute Tribe

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Mason County Leaders Forum

Senator Murray discusses local issues such as education, transportation and healthcare at a roundtable with Mason County leaders. Linda Gott, PUD #3 Commissioner, (seated next to the Senator) moderated the discussion.

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Senator Murray meets with members of the Makah Nation, including Chairman Gordon Smith.

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Expanding Small Business and Technology

Sen. Murray poses with members of the Rainy Day Gamers, a community youth group, that uses the Forks West End Business and Technology center.

Sen. Murray toured the center and spoke with students about the need for expanded technology.

Sen. Murray secured $100,000 in federal funding in this year's VA-HUD Appropriations bill for the center, which provides business services to help mentor and expand small businesses in the community. (08/09/02)

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Improving Our Ferry Systems

Senator Murray discusses her Ferry Systems Investment Act of 2009 at a press conference on Capitol Hill. Senator Murray’s bill dramatically increases funding for ferry systems across that nation -  particularly for states like Washington - where commuters and families rely heavily on ferries. Ferry systems across the country need federal assistance to help meet growing demand and to make investments in aging infrastructure.

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Murray Visits Aberdeen Firefighters

Senator Murray visited the Aberdeen Fire Department and met with firefighters to learn first hand how awards from Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program are used on the ground. The Aberdeen Fire Dept. has been successful in obtaining funding from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program all three years the program has been in existence.



Funding & purchase: (Dollars below are the Federal share)


FY 2001: $69,000 to purchase a live-fire mobile training trailer



FY 2002: $40,950 to install special ?quick connector? fittings on hydrants throughout the city, which means that it now takes firefighters a just few seconds to hock up to the hydrants.



FY 2003: $56,700 to purchase new personal protective clothing

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Addressing Tribal Issues

Senator Murray meets with members of the Quileute Tribe in La Push, Washington.

Chairman Russell Woodruff (standing) shows Senator Murray (seated) a map of the Quileute reservation and discusses working with the National Park Service on reservation boundaries. (08/09/02)

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Celebrating New Telecommunications Technology in Forks

Senator Murray participates in a video conference and ribbon cutting with the West End Technology Center in Forks, Washington. The event was attended in Forks by community leaders, citizens, and some of the students and business people who will benefit most from the facility.




Murray delivered remarks, after which she joined the Forks attendees in a simultaneous "virtual" ribbon cutting. "The fact that we can see and hear each other right now ? from all the way across the country ? is a testament to the great things we can accomplish when we work together to recognize and meet needs in our state," Murray said to participants in Forks. Full Remarks



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Touring the Flood Damaged Regions

Senator Murray tours the flood damage in Western Washington with Secretary Peters and Governor Gregoire. 

Murray is working to provide federal funding for the families, businesses and infrastructure damaged by the January 2009 storms.

 

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Rolling Out Telecom Access

Senator Murray breaks ground with telecommunications officials at the U.S. Highway 101 and West Twin Road site in Sappho, WA.

Sen. Murray delivered the keynote address in the ceremony, praising local efforts to bridge the so-called "Sappho Gap."

The project will help provide high-speed telecom services to the surrounding community. (08/09/02)

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