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This image from U.S. Senate video, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks about the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the Senate chamber on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Washington. Gillibrand brought a drawing Feinstein had given her and wore red lipstick in her honor. (Senate Television via AP)

The Dianne Feinstein they knew: Women of the Senate remember a tireless fighter and a true friend

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

FILE - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during the House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing. Murray faces Republican Tiffany Smiley in the November election. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Democrat Patty Murray wins sixth term to U.S. Senate

By Nicholas K. Geranios - Associated Press

Republican Tiffany Smile speaks on Aug. 2, 2022, at a Republican Party event on Election Day in Issaquah, Wash., east of Seattle. Smiley faces Democratic incumbent Patty Murray in the November election. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Washington GOP hopeful slams Seattle, Seahawks and Starbucks

By Nicholas K. Geranios - Associated Press

Tiffany Smiley Poster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why Tiffany Smiley can beat Washington’s incumbent Sen. Patty Murray

By Michael McKenna

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine stopping the spread of monkeypox, focusing on the federal response in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Lawmakers use monkeypox hearing to praise Dr. Fauci — or get in last jabs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference the vote to codify Roe v. Wade, in this May 5, 2022 file photo on Capitol Hill in Washington. Murray is one of the U.S. Senate's most powerful members and seeking a sixth term at another inflection point for women now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide. She is being challenged by Tiffany Smiley, a Republican from Pasco, Wash. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senate Democrat defends Biden speech, says ‘democracy is at risk’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Republican candidate Tiffany Smiley is running to unseat longtime Sen. Patty Murray in Washington state. (Credit: Tiffany Smiley for Washington)

Senate GOP running on crime, inflation to put Dems on defense in blue states

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference the vote to codify Roe v. Wade, in this May 5, 2022 file photo on Capitol Hill in Washington. Murray is one of the U.S. Senate's most powerful members and seeking a sixth term. She is being challenged by Tiffany Smiley, a Republican from Pasco, Wash. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Murray highlights abortion rights in bid for 6th Senate term

By Chris Grygiel - Associated Press

A sign warns that firearms are prohibited at Mary Mart, a marijuana store, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in Tacoma, Wash., as armed security guard Austin MacMath stands watch outside at left. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Pot shop robberies, deaths fuel calls for US banking bill

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press

Four Senate Democrats, including Virginia's Tim Kaine (right) and Mark Warner (left), have asked the Biden administration's Education Department to investigate the handling of sexual-abuse complaints at Lynchburg's Liberty University. (Associated Press)

Democrats call for Biden administration probe of sex-assault complaints at Liberty University

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, in Arlington, Va. McAuliffe will face Republican Glenn Youngkin in the November election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden boots paid family leave from $2 trillion social welfare bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks about the coronavirus during a media availability on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 3, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate Dems eye dramatic expansion of paid leave in ‘human’ infrastructure bill

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

Republican Tiffany Smiley says she is running for US Senate

Associated Press

Diverse panel recommends US judge candidates in Washington

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Nick Brown, then-counsel to Gov. Jay Inslee, takes questions at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are recommending a pair of firsts for Washington state's two U.S. attorney posts. Nick Brown, the former counsel to Gov. Jay Inslee, would be the first Black U.S. attorney in western Washington, and Vanessa Waldref, a Justice Department environmental lawyer and former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Spokane, would be the first woman to run the shop there. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Pair of firsts recommended for Washington US attorney posts

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., left, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, right, speak after Republicans objected to certifying the Electoral College votes from Arizona, during a joint session of the House and Senate to confirm the electoral votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz pressured to resign for ‘normalizing’ attack on Capitol

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo President-elect Joe Biden puts on his face mask after introducing nominees and appointees to key national security and foreign policy posts at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. Congress is bracing for Biden to move beyond the Trump administration’s state-by-state approach to the COVID-19 crisis and build out a national strategy to fight the pandemic and distribute the eventual vaccine.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Congress braces for Biden’s national coronavirus strategy

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

Washington Sen. Murray adding to tally of health care bills

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Two people ask to take a photo with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., center, as the Senate and the House of Representatives shut down for the week-long Memorial Day recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Rep. Nadler, whose district covers parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York, has gained notoriety by leading one of the House committees investigating President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP, Democrats team up to address surprise medical bills

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the ranking member, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, meet before the start of a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, the morning after they reached a deal to resume federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump had halted. Sen. Alexander says Trump called him Wednesday morning &quot;to be encouraging&quot; of bipartisan efforts to come up with a plan to stabilize health insurance premiums. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Patty Murray, Lamar Alexander unveil bipartisan plan for health costs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times