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{{Short description|American politician (born 1950)}}
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| name                 = Patty Murray
| image                = Patty Murray, official portrait, 113th Congress.jpg
| caption              = Official portrait, 2013
| office               = Vice Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Appropriations|Senate Appropriations Committee]]
| status               = [[Incumbent]]
| term_start           = January 3, 2025
| term_end             = 
| predecessor          = [[Susan Collins]]
| successor            = 
| office2             = [[President pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate|President pro tempore emerita of the United States Senate]]
| term_start2         = January 3, 2025
| term_end2           = 
| predecessor2        = [[Chuck Grassley]] <!--
| successor2          = -->
| jr/sr11              = United States Senator
| state11              = [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
| alongside11          = [[Maria Cantwell]]
| predecessor11        = [[Brock Adams]]
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| office1              = [[President pro tempore of the United States Senate]]
| term_start1          = January 3, 2023
| term_end1            = January 3, 2025
| predecessor1         = [[Patrick Leahy]]
| successor1           = [[Chuck Grassley]]
| office3              = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Appropriations|Senate Appropriations Committee]]
| term_start3          = January 3, 2023
| term_end3            = January 3, 2025
| predecessor3         = Patrick Leahy
| successor3           = [[Susan Collins]]
| office4              = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions|Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee]]
| term_start4          = February 3, 2021
| term_end4            = January 3, 2023
| predecessor4         = [[Lamar Alexander]]
| successor4           = [[Bernie Sanders]]
| office5              = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on the Budget|Senate Budget Committee]]
| term_start5          = January 3, 2013
| term_end5            = January 3, 2015
| predecessor5         = [[Kent Conrad]]
| successor5           = [[Mike Enzi]]
| office6              = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs|Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee]]
| term_start6          = January 3, 2011
| term_end6            = January 3, 2013
| predecessor6         = [[Daniel Akaka]]
| successor6           = [[Bernie Sanders]]
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| office6              = [[Party leaders of the United States Senate|Senate Assistant Democratic Leader]]
| leader7              = [[Chuck Schumer]]
| term_start7          = January 3, 2017
| term_end7            = January 3, 2023
| predecessor7         = Position established
| successor7           = Position abolished
| office8              = [[United States Senate Democratic Conference Secretary|Secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus]]
| leader8              = [[Harry Reid]]
| term_start8          = January 3, 2007
| term_end8            = January 3, 2017
| predecessor8         = [[Debbie Stabenow]]
| successor8           = [[Tammy Baldwin]]
| office9              = Chair of the [[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]]
| term_start9          = January 3, 2011
| term_end9            = January 3, 2013
| leader9              = Harry Reid
| predecessor9         = [[Bob Menendez]]
| successor9           = [[Michael Bennet]]
| term_start10          = January 3, 2001
| term_end10            = January 3, 2003
| leader10              = [[Tom Daschle]]
| predecessor10         = [[Robert Torricelli]]
| successor10           = [[Jon Corzine]]
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| term_start11         = January 3, 1993
| state_senate12       = Washington State
| district12           = [[Washington's 1st legislative district|1st]]
| term_start12         = January 9, 1989
| term_end12           = January 3, 1993
| predecessor12        = [[Bill Kiskaddon]]
| successor12          = [[Rosemary McAuliffe]]
| birth_name           = Patricia Lynn Johns
| birth_date           = {{birth date and age|1950|10|11}}
| birth_place          = [[Bothell, Washington]], U.S.
| death_date           = 
| death_place          = 
| party                = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse               = {{marriage|Rob Murray|1972}}
| children             = 2
| education            = [[Washington State University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
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'''Patricia Lynn Murray''' ({{née|'''Johns'''}}, October 11, 1950) is an American politician serving in her sixth term as a [[United States senator]] from [[Washington (state)|Washington]], beginning her tenure in 1993, and is the state's [[Seniority in the United States Senate|senior senator]]. She also served as the [[president pro tempore of the United States Senate]] from 2023 to 2025. 

A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], Murray served in the [[Washington State Senate]] from 1989 to 1993. She was Washington's first female U.S. senator and is the first woman in American history to hold the position of president pro tempore. Murray is also the youngest senator to occupy the office of president pro tempore in more than five decades.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Not stated-->|title=Sen. Patty Murray expected to become third in line for presidency |url=https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/patty-murray-pro-tempore-nomination/281-6dced58f-8792-4e69-ab14-c888327ce1d9 |website=KING-5 |date=November 16, 2022 |access-date=November 17, 2022}}</ref>

Born and raised in [[Bothell, Washington]], Murray graduated from [[Washington State University]] with a degree in [[physical education]]. She worked as a pre-school teacher and, later, as a parenting teacher at [[Shoreline Community College]]. A long-time advocate for environmental and education issues, Murray was elected to serve on her local school board in [[King County, Washington|King County]].  She ran for the Washington State Senate in 1988, and defeated two-term incumbent [[Bill Kiskaddon]]. She served one term before launching a campaign for the United States Senate in [[1992 United States Senate election in Washington|1992]]. She has been re-elected five times, most recently in [[2022 United States Senate election in Washington|2022]].

As a senator, Murray has been a part of [[Current party leaders of the United States Senate|party leadership]] since 2001, having served as chair of the [[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]], [[United States Senate Democratic Conference Secretary|Democratic Conference secretary]], and assistant Democratic leader. She currently chairs the [[United States Senate Committee on Appropriations|Senate Appropriations Committee]]. Before assuming her current roles, Murray has previously chaired at various times, the [[United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs|Veterans' Affairs Committee]], the [[United States Senate Committee on the Budget|Budget Committee]], and the [[United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions|Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee]]. Murray garnered national attention in 2013, when she and Republican representative [[Paul Ryan]] announced that they had negotiated a two-year, bipartisan budget, known as the [[Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013]]. Murray is currently the third-most senior senator,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Senate Seniority |url=https://www.periodicalpress.senate.gov/senate-facts/senate-seniority/ |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=United States Senate Periodical Press Gallery |language=en-US}}</ref> the most senior Senate Democrat, the longest-serving female senator ever, and the dean of Washington's congressional delegation since 2017 upon Representative [[Jim McDermott]]'s retirement.
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==Early life and education==
One of seven children, Murray was born in [[Bothell, Washington]], a daughter of David L. Johns and Beverly A. McLaughlin.<ref name=fp1>{{cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/murray.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127052125/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/murray.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 27, 2008 |title=patty murray |website=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com}}</ref> Her mother was an accountant. Her father served in [[World War II]] and was awarded a [[Purple Heart]]. Her ancestry includes [[Welsh Americans|Welsh]], [[Irish Americans|Irish]], [[Scottish Americans|Scottish]], and [[French-Canadian Americans|French-Canadian]].<ref name=fp1/> When she was a teenager, her family was forced to apply for welfare assistance when her father became disabled due to [[multiple sclerosis]]. He had been the manager of a [[Variety store#North America|five-and-ten store]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c-span.org/Events/Sen-Patty-Murray-D-WA-Takes-Hard-Line-on-Fiscal-Cliff/10737432338-1/|title=Sen. Patty Murray, D-WA Takes Hard Line on Fiscal Cliff|work=C-SPAN|access-date=July 21, 2012|archive-date=September 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930182925/http://www.c-span.org/Events/Sen-Patty-Murray-D-WA-Takes-Hard-Line-on-Fiscal-Cliff/10737432338-1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Murray attended Saint Brendan Catholic School as a young child.

Murray received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in physical education from [[Washington State University]] in 1972.

== Early career ==
Murray was a preschool teacher for several years, and taught a parenting class at [[Shoreline Community College]] from 1984 to 1987.<ref>{{cite web |title=MURRAY, Patty (1950) - Biography |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m001111 |access-date=August 24, 2007 |work=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]}}</ref> As a citizen-[[lobbyist]] for environmental and educational issues, Murray has said that a state representative once told her she could not make a difference because she was just a "mom in tennis shoes".<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|last=Egan|first=Timothy|author-link=Timothy Egan|date=September 17, 1992|title=Another Win By a Woman, This One 'Mom'|page=A16|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/17/us/another-win-by-a-woman-this-one-mom.html|access-date=February 12, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The phrase stuck, and she later used it in her successful campaigns for the [[Shoreline School District]] board of directors (1985–89), [[Washington State Senate]] (1989–93), and United States Senate (1993–present).<ref name="auto"/> Murray was successful in gathering grassroots support to strike down proposed preschool program budget cuts.<ref name=senate-bio>{{cite web|title=About Patty|publisher=Office of Senator Patty Murray|website=murray.senate.gov|url=https://murray.senate.gov/about/|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=January 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107010900/http://www.murray.senate.gov/about/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/094580-2011-08-11-senator-patty-murray-co-chairs-the-deficit-commission-but-cant.htm?From=News |title=Senator Patty Murray co-chairs the deficit commission but can't connect dots |website=freedomsphoenix.com |date=August 11, 2011 |access-date=February 11, 2013}}</ref>

In 1988, Murray unseated two-term incumbent [[U.S. Republican Party|Republican]] [[Washington State Senate|state Senator]] [[Bill Kiskaddon]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/legislator-bill-kiskaddon-was-one-of-last-to-benefit-from-partisan-redistricting/ |title=Legislator Bill Kiskaddon was one of last to benefit from partisan redistricting |author=Smith, Evan |date=December 11, 2015 |newspaper=[[The Everett Herald]] |access-date=April 22, 2020}}</ref>

==U.S. Senate (1993–present)==
Murray has served in the United States Senate since her election in 1992. For the 118th Congress in 2023, she was elected Senate [[president pro tempore]] after [[Patrick Leahy]] retired from the Senate; the office is usually held by the longest served [[Seniority in the United States Senate|senior senator]] of the majority party, but Senator [[Dianne Feinstein]] (who was also elected in 1992, but took her seat a few months prior to Murray because she won a special election, rather than a regularly scheduled one) declined the post due to ailing health, leaving Murray the next in line for the position. Murray would ultimately become the most senior serving Democrat upon Feinstein's death later that year. Murray is the first woman to hold the position.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jalonik |first=Mary Clare |date=January 4, 2023 |title=Murray becomes first female president pro tempore in Senate |language=en |pages=2023–01–04 |url=https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-patty-murray-senate-5ffe1b8e2c049a8f37ac0afbcc2af665 |access-date=January 4, 2023}}</ref> 

Murray is the first woman, and 33rd senator overall, to have cast 10,000 votes in the Senate, having reached the threshold on April 20, 2023.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.axios.com/2023/04/20/sen-murray-first-woman-cast-10000-votes-senate|title = Sen. Murray becomes first woman to cast 10,000 votes in the Senate|last = Knutson|first = Jake|date = April 20, 2023|accessdate = April 20, 2023|work = [[Axios (website)|Axios]]}}</ref>

=== Elections ===

==== 1992 ====
{{see also|1992 United States Senate election in Washington}}
In 1992, Murray announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate after ''[[The Seattle Times]]'' published a series of articles alleging that incumbent Democratic Senator [[Brock Adams]] had [[sexually assaulted]] a number of women.<ref>{{cite news | author=Mark Matassa and David Schaefer | title=Who'll Run for Adams' Seat? -- Scramble on After Senator Withdraws | newspaper=[[Seattle Times]] | date=March 2, 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Wilma |first=David |date=September 10, 2004 |title=Adams, Brock (1927–2004) |url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5739 |access-date=February 24, 2007 |website=[[HistoryLink]]}}</ref> Adams denied the allegations, but his popularity weakened considerably and he chose to retire rather than risk losing the seat for his party. Murray defeated Congressman [[Don Bonker]] for the Democratic nomination. In the general election she defeated Republican Congressman [[Rod Chandler]], 54% to 46%, despite being outspent by a wide margin. Chandler seemed to have the upper hand in one of the debates until he responded to Murray's criticism for spending $120,000 on congressional mailings during rising unemployment and declining family income as part of [[Early 1990s recession in the United States|an economic recession]] by quoting the [[Roger Miller]] song "[[Dang Me]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Connelly |first=Joel |date=September 19, 2006 |title=Cantwell snubs McGavick on debates |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/285755_joel20.html |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]}}</ref> Chandler was further damaged by the unpopularity in the [[Pacific Northwest]] of President [[George H. W. Bush]], who was largely blamed for the recession.

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 | title = 1992 U.S. Senate primary in Washington<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=240685|title=Our Campaigns - WA US Senate - Blanket Primary Race - Sep 15, 1992|website=www.ourcampaigns.com}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Patty Murray
 | votes      = 318,455
 | percentage = 28.32%
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = [[Rod Chandler]]
 | votes      = 228,083
 | percentage = 20.28%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = [[Don Bonker]]
 | votes      = 208,321
 | percentage = 18.52%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = [[Leo K. Thorsness]]
 | votes      = 185,498
 | percentage = 16.49%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = [[Tim Hill (politician)|Tim Hill]]
 | votes      = 128,232
 | percentage = 11.40%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Gene D. Hart
 | votes      = 15,894
 | percentage = 1.41%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Marshall
 | votes      = 11,659
 | percentage = 1.04%
}}
{{Election box candidate no change
 | party      = Washington Taxpayers
 | candidate  = [[William Cassius Goodloe]]
 | votes      = 10,877
 | percentage = 0.97%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Jeffery Brian Venezia
 | votes      = 7,259
 | percentage = 0.65%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Independent
 | candidate  = LaPriel C. Barnes
 | votes      = 7,044
 | percentage = 0.63%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Socialist Workers Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Mark Severs
 | votes      = 3,309
 | percentage = 0.29%
}}
{{Election box total no change
 | votes      = 1,124,631
 | percentage = 100.00%
}}
{{Election box end}}

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 | title = 1992 United States Senate election in Washington<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/results_report.aspx|title=Election Search Results - Elections & Voting - WA Secretary of State|website=www.sos.wa.gov}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Patty Murray
 | votes      = 1,197,973
 | percentage = 53.99%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = [[Rod Chandler]]
 | votes      = 1,020,829
 | percentage = 46.01%
}}
{{Election box total no change
 | votes      = 2,218,802
 | percentage = 100.0%
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing
| winner = Democratic Party (United States)
}}
{{Election box end}}

==== 1998 ====
{{see also|1998 United States Senate election in Washington}}
In 1998, Murray faced Congresswoman [[Linda Smith (American politician)|Linda Smith]], a staunch conservative and maverick who was one of nine House Republicans to vote against confirming [[U.S. House Speaker]] [[Newt Gingrich]] in early 1997, opposed gay rights and viewed homosexuality as a "morally unfit inclination".<ref>{{cite web |title=SMITH, Linda |url=https://history.house.gov/people/detail/21861 |access-date=October 17, 2020 |website=history.house.gov}}</ref> Murray heavily outspent her and was reelected, 58% to 42%.

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 | title = 1998 U.S. Senate primary in Washington<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/results_report.aspx?e=9&c=&c2=&t=&t2=&p=&p2=&y=|title=September 1998 Primary|website=Washington Secretary of State|access-date=February 23, 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Patty Murray (incumbent)
 | votes      = 479,009
 | percentage = 45.86%
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = [[Linda Smith (American politician)|Linda Smith]]
 | votes      = 337,407
 | percentage = 32.31%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = [[Chris Bayley]]
 | votes      = 155,864
 | percentage = 14.92%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Warren E. Hanson
 | votes      = 22,411
 | percentage = 2.15%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Amundson Amundseon
 | votes      = 10,905
 | percentage = 1.04%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = John Marshall
 | votes      = 9,662
 | percentage = 0.93%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Reform Party of the United States of America
 | candidate  = Mike The Mover
 | votes      = 6,596
 | percentage = 0.63%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = James Sherwood Stokes
 | votes      = 5,989
 | percentage = 0.57%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Harvey Vernier
 | votes      = 3,882
 | percentage = 0.37%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Socialist Workers Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Nan Bailey
 | votes      = 3,709
 | percentage = 0.36%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Reform Party of the United States of America
 | candidate  = Steve Thompson
 | votes      = 3,371
 | percentage = 0.32%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Robert Tilden Medley
 | votes      = 3,350
 | percentage = 0.32%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Charlie R. Jackson
 | votes      = 2,234
 | percentage = 0.21%
}}
{{Election box total no change
 | votes      = 1,044,389
 | percentage = 100.00%
}}
{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin no change
 | title      = General election results<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/results_report.aspx?e=10&c=&c2=&t=&t2=&p=&p2=&y=|title=November 1998 General|website=Washington Secretary of State|access-date=February 23, 2021}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 | candidate  = Patty Murray (Incumbent)
 | votes      = 1,103,184
 | percentage = 58.41%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
 | party      = Republican Party (United States)
 | candidate  = [[Linda Smith (American politician)|Linda Smith]]
 | votes      = 785,377
 | percentage = 41.59%
}}
{{Election box total no change
 | votes      = 1,888,561
 | percentage = 100.00%
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing
| winner = Democratic Party (United States)
}}
{{Election box end}}

==== 2004 ====
{{see also|2004 United States Senate election in Washington}}
In 2004, Murray faced Republican U.S. Representative [[George Nethercutt]]. [[Term limits]] became an issue in the campaign, as Democrats seized on Nethercutt's broken term-limits pledge that he had made when he unexpectedly unseated Speaker [[Tom Foley]] in 1994. Nethercutt was also hampered by his lack of name recognition in the more densely populated western part of the state, home to two-thirds of the state's population. Washington has not elected a senator from east of the [[Cascade Mountains|Cascades]] since [[Miles Poindexter]] in 1916. Other important issues included national security and the [[Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–present|war in Iraq]]. Nethercutt supported the [[2003 Invasion of Iraq]], while Murray opposed it. Nethercutt was a heavy underdog from the start and his campaign never gained much traction. Murray was reelected, 55% to 43%.

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |Democratic primary election results
|-
|'''Party'''
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''%'''
|-
|Democratic
|'''Patty Murray''' (incumbent)
|'''709,477'''
|'''92.20'''
|-
|Democratic
|Warren Hanson
|46,487
|6.04
|-
|Democratic
|Mohammad Said
|13,526
|1.76
|}
{{Election box begin no change | title=General election results<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wei.sos.wa.gov/agency/osos/en/press_and_research/PreviousElections/2004/Documents/2004%20General%20Election/2004Leg-CongDistAbstract.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185550/https://wei.sos.wa.gov/agency/osos/en/press_and_research/PreviousElections/2004/Documents/2004%20General%20Election/2004Leg-CongDistAbstract.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead |title=Official November 2, 2004 General Election Abstract}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
 |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 |candidate  = Patty Murray (incumbent)
 |votes      = 1,549,708
 |percentage = 54.98
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
 |party      = Republican Party (United States)
 |candidate  = [[George Nethercutt|George R. Nethercutt, Jr.]]
 |votes      = 1,204,584
 |percentage = 42.74
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
 |party      = Libertarian Party (United States)
 |candidate  = J. Mills
 |votes      = 34,055
 |percentage = 1.21
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
 |party      = Green Party of the United States
 |candidate  = Mark B. Wilson
 |votes      = 30,304
 |percentage = 1.08
}}
{{Election box total no change
 | votes      = 2,818,651
 | percentage = 100.00%
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no swing
| winner = Democratic Party (United States)
}}
{{Election box end}}

==== 2010 ====
{{see also|2010 United States Senate election in Washington}}
The 2010 election was the first Senate election to be held under the new [[blanket primary]] since [[Washington Initiative 872|Initiative 872]] had passed in 2004. In the August 17 primary, Murray appeared on the ballot alongside four other Democratic candidates, six Republican candidates, a [[Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform Party]] candidate and three independent candidates. She received a plurality, 46%, and advanced to the general election along with her main Republican challenger, former state Senator and two-time gubernatorial nominee [[Dino Rossi]], who received 33%.<ref>{{cite news |last=Balter |first=Joni |date=January 29, 2010 |title=Dino Rossi and the Scott Brown effect in Washington |work=The Seattle Times |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/dino-rossi-and-the-scott-brown-effect-in-washington/ |access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Trende |first=Sean |date=April 24, 2010 |title=Bad Polling News for Murray |url=http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/04/24/surveyusa-poll-washington-senate/ |url-status=dead |magazine=Time |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426115824/http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/04/24/surveyusa-poll-washington-senate/ |archive-date=April 26, 2010}}</ref> Leading up to the election, several prominent Washington State newspapers endorsed Murray.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 8, 2010 |title=The Times endorses the re-election of Sen. Patty Murray |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-times-endorses-the-re-election-of-sen-patty-murray/ |access-date=October 17, 2020 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref><ref>[http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/10/10/1376438/re-elect-patty-murray-to-the-us.html Re-elect Patty Murray to the U.S. Senate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905080418/http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/10/10/1376438/re-elect-patty-murray-to-the-us.html|date=September 5, 2012}}, ''[[The News Tribune]]'', October 10, 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Editorial board |date=October 11, 2010 |title=Murray has earned a fourth term |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/428233_PIUSSENATE.html |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=October 24, 2010 |title=On balance, Murray is better choice for Senate |url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/oct/24/editorial-on-balance-murray-is-better-choice-for/ |access-date=October 17, 2020 |work=[[The Spokesman-Review]]}}</ref> Rossi conceded the election to Murray on November 4, 2010, two days after election day. She won 52.36% of the vote to Rossi's 47.64%, Murray's smallest reelection margin to date.

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| title = [[Blanket primary]] election results<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results.aspx?RaceTypeCode=O&JurisdictionTypeID=1&ElectionID=36&ViewMode=Results |title=August 17, 2010 Primary - Federal |publisher=Vote.wa.gov |date=August 17, 2010 |access-date=August 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821041354/http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results.aspx?RaceTypeCode=O&JurisdictionTypeID=1&ElectionID=36&ViewMode=Results |archive-date=August 21, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/2010/maps/#/Senate/2010/WA |title=The 2010 Results Maps |work=[[Politico]]|access-date=August 21, 2010}}</ref>
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Patty Murray (incumbent)
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 670,284
| percentage = 46.22
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Dino Rossi]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 483,305
| percentage = 33.33
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Clint Didier]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 185,034
| percentage = 12.76
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Paul Akers
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 37,231
| percentage = 2.57
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Skip Mercer
| party = Independent
| votes = 12,122
| percentage = 0.84
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Charles Allen
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 11,525
| percentage = 0.79
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Bob Burr
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 11,344
| percentage = 0.78
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Norma Gruber
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 9,162
| percentage = 0.63
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Michael Latimer
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 6,545
| percentage = 0.45
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Mike the Mover
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 6,019
| percentage = 0.42
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Goodspaceguy
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 4,718
| percentage = 0.33
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = William Baker
| party = Reform Party (United States)
| votes = 4,593
| percentage = 0.32
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Mohammad Said
| party = Independent
| votes = 3,387
| percentage = 0.23
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Schalk Leonard
| party = Independent
| votes = 2,818
| percentage = 0.19
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = William Chovil
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 2,039
| percentage = 0.14
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 1,450,126
| percentage=100
}}
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
 |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 |candidate  = Patty Murray (incumbent)
 |votes      = 1,314,930
 |percentage = 52.36
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
 |party      = Republican Party (United States)
 |candidate  = [[Dino Rossi]]
 |votes      = 1,196,164
 |percentage = 47.64
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{{Election box total no change
 | votes      = 2,511.094
 | percentage = 100.00
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{{Election box hold with party link no swing
| winner = Democratic Party (United States)
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==== 2016 ====
{{see also|2016 United States Senate election in Washington}}
Murray ran for a fifth term in 2016. She faced three Democratic challengers in the August 2, 2016, primary election.<ref>{{citation |title=Candidates |url=https://weiapplets.sos.wa.gov/MyVoteOLVR/OnlineVotersGuide?language=en&electionId=62&countyCode=xx&Group=Federal |website=eledataweb.votewa.gov |publisher=Washington Secretary of State}}</ref> In the general election, she faced [[King County Council]]man [[Chris Vance (politician)|Chris Vance]]. She defeated Vance, 59% to 41%.

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Patty Murray (incumbent)
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 745,421
| percentage = 53.82%
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Chris Vance (politician)|Chris Vance]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 381,004
| percentage = 27.51%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Eric John Makus
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 57,825
| percentage = 4.18%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Phil Cornell
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 46,460
| percentage = 3.35%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Scott Nazarino
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 41,542
| percentage = 3.00%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Mike Luke
| party = Libertarian Party (United States)
| votes = 20,988
| percentage = 1.52%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Mohammad Said
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 13,362
| percentage = 0.96%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Donna Rae Lands
| party = Conservative
| votes = 11,472
| percentage = 0.83%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Ted Cummings
| party = Independent
| votes = 11,028
| percentage = 0.80%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Sam Wright
| party = Human Rights
| votes = 10,751
| percentage = 0.78%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Uncle Mover
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 8,569
| percentage = 0.62%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Jeremy Teuton
| party = System Reboot
| votes = 7,991
| percentage = 0.58%
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Thor Amundson
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 7,906
| percentage = 0.57%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Chuck Jackson
| party = Independent
| votes = 6,318
| percentage = 0.46%
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{{Election box candidate no change
| candidate = Pano Churchill
| party = Lincoln Caucus
| votes = 5,150
| percentage = 0.37%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Zach Haller
| party = Independent
| votes = 5,092
| percentage = 0.37%
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Alex Tsimerman
| party = StandUpAmerica
| votes = 4,117
| percentage = 0.30%
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 1,384,996
| percentage=100.00%
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 |party      = Democratic Party (United States)
 |candidate  = Patty Murray (incumbent)
 |votes      = 1,913,979
 |percentage = 58.83
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
 |party      = Republican Party (United States)
 |candidate  = [[Chris Vance (politician)|Chris Vance]]
 |votes      = 1,329,338
 |percentage = 40.86
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 |votes      = 10,071
 |percentage = 0.31
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 | percentage = 100.00%
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{{Election box hold with party link no swing
| winner = Democratic Party (United States)
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==== 2022 ====
{{see also|2022 United States Senate election in Washington}}
In the 2022 election, Murray won reelection to a sixth term over Republican [[Tiffany Smiley]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Patty Murray defeats Tiffany Smiley in U.S. Senate race |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/patty-murray-leads-tiffany-smiley-in-u-s-senate-race/ |work=The Seattle Times |date=November 8, 2022}}</ref>

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Trump Republican|candidate=Leon Lawson|votes=59134|percentage=3.08%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Republican Party (United States)|candidate=John Guenther|votes=55426|percentage=2.89%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Democratic Party (United States)|candidate=Ravin Pierre|votes=22172|percentage=1.15%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=JFK Republican|candidate=Dave Saulibio|votes=19341|percentage=1.01%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Independent|candidate=Naz Paul|votes=18858|percentage=0.98%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Republican Party (United States)|candidate=Bill Hirt|votes=15276|percentage=0.8%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Democratic Party (United States)|candidate=Mohammad Hassan Said|votes=13995|percentage=0.73%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Socialist Workers Party (United States)|candidate=Henry Clay Dennison|votes=13,901|percentage=0.72%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Democratic Party (United States)|candidate=Dr Pano Churchill|votes=11859|percentage=0.62%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Democratic Party (United States)|candidate=Bryan Solstin|votes=9627|percentage=0.5%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Independent|candidate=Charlie (Chuck) Jackson|votes=8604|percentage=0.45%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Independent|candidate=Jon Butler|votes=5413|percentage=0.28%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Independent|candidate=Thor Amundson|votes=5133|percentage=0.27%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=No party preference|candidate=Martin D. Hash|votes=4725|percentage=0.25%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=No party preference|candidate=Dan Phan Doan|votes=3049|percentage=0.16%}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|party=Democratic Party (United States)|candidate=Sam Cusmir|votes=2688|percentage=0.14%}}
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| title = General election results<ref>{{cite web |title=Official Canvass of the Returns |url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/official%20canvass%20of%20the%20returns%20g2022_%20certification%2012%2007%202022.pdf |publisher=[[Secretary of State of Washington]] |access-date=3 December 2024}}</ref>
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| party      = Democratic Party (United States)
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===[[119th United States Congress]] Committee assignments===
Source:<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Senate: Committee Assignments of the 119th Congress |url=https://www.senate.gov/general/committee_assignments/assignments.htm#Cortez%20MastoNV |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=www.senate.gov}}</ref>

[[File:MURRAYROBERTS.jpg|thumb|right| Senator Murray at the podium, joined by (left to right), Sen. [[Barbara Boxer]] (D-[[California|CA]]), Sen. [[Debbie Stabenow]] (D-[[Michigan|MI]]), Sen. [[Maria Cantwell]] (D-[[Washington (state)|WA]]) and Sen. [[Barbara Mikulski]] (D-[[Maryland|MD]]), launching an interactive website regarding the nomination of Judge [[John Roberts]] as the [[Chief Justice of the United States]].]]
* '''[[United States Senate Committee on Appropriations|Committee on Appropriations]] (ranking member)'''
* [[United States Senate Committee on the Budget|Committee on the Budget]]
* [[United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions|Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions]]
* [[United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs|Committee on Veterans' Affairs]]

===Caucus memberships===
* [[Senate Oceans Caucus]]
* [[Senate Aerospace Caucus]]
*[[Afterschool Caucuses]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Members |url=http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/policyCongressionalCaucuses.cfm |publisher=Afterschool Alliance |access-date=April 17, 2018}}</ref>
*[[Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Members|url=http://www.ng911institute.org/about-the-congressional-nextgen-9-1-1-caucus|publisher=Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus|access-date=June 8, 2018|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142643/http://www.ng911institute.org/about-the-congressional-nextgen-9-1-1-caucus|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Congressional Coalition on Adoption]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute|url=https://www.ccainstitute.org|language=en}}</ref>

===Legislation===
On February 28, 2013, Murray introduced the [[Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act]] into the Senate. The bill would prevent the [[United States Forest Service]] from removing a building from the [[Glacier Peak Wilderness|Glacier Peak Wilderness Area]] in the state of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] unless the agency determines that the structure is unsafe for visitors.<ref name=404sum>{{cite web |title=S.404 - Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act |url=http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/404|website=congress.gov |publisher=United States Congress |access-date=April 5, 2014}}</ref> Murray argued that the bill should be passed in order to help the tourism industry in the area while protecting the lookout point in question.<ref name=SenateApprovesAp3>{{cite news |last=Cox |first=Ramsey |title=Senate approves small bill to help Oso recovery |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/202617-senate-approves-small-bill-to-aid-oso-landslide-victims/|access-date=April 8, 2014 |newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |date=April 3, 2014}}</ref> The bill would be "a very small step in what will be a very long recovery" and would "provide a glimmer of hope for the long-term recovery of this area", she said,<ref name="SenateApprovesAp3"/> referring to the area's recovery from the casualties and damage caused by the [[2014 Oso mudslide]]. The bill passed both the House and the Senate.

==Political positions==
=== Abortion ===
Murray supports abortion rights. She opposed the [[Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act]], a bill criminalizing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying on the Senate floor: "I oppose the fact that we are still voting on whether women and doctors are best equipped to make health care decisions — or politicians here in D. C."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/29/politics/senate-abortion-vote/index.html|title=20-week abortion ban fails to advance in the Senate |date=January 29, 2018 |publisher=[[CNN]] |first=Ashley |last=Killough|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref> She also voted against restricting US funding for UN family planning programs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/social/Patty_Murray_Abortion.htm |title=Patty Murray on Abortion |website=[[On the Issues]] |access-date=January 23, 2019}}</ref>

=== Agriculture ===
In March 2019, Murray was one of 38 senators to sign a letter to [[United States Secretary of Agriculture|U.S. Agriculture Secretary]] [[Sonny Perdue]] warning that dairy farmers "have continued to face market instability and are struggling to survive the fourth year of sustained low prices" and urging his department to "strongly encourage these farmers to consider the Dairy Margin Coverage program".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/u-s-senator-tammy-baldwin-calls-on-trump-administration-to-implement-farm-bill-dairy-improvements-for-wisconsin-dairy-farmers/ |title=U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Calls on Trump Administration to Implement Farm Bill Dairy Improvements for Wisconsin Dairy Farmers |date=April 1, 2019 |work=Urban Milwaukee|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

In June 2019, Murray and 18 other Democratic senators sent [[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA]] Inspector General (IG) Phyllis K. Fong a letter requesting that the IG investigate USDA instances of retaliation and political decision-making and asserting that not to do so would mean these "actions could be perceived as a part of this administration’s broader pattern of not only discounting the value of federal employees, but suppressing, undermining, discounting, and wholesale ignoring scientific data produced by their own qualified scientists".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/menendez-booker-join-call-investigation-usda-amid-reports-scientific-data-suppression/ |title=Menendez, Booker Join Call for Investigation at USDA amid Reports of Scientific Data Suppression |work=Insider NJ|date=June 26, 2019|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

=== Environmental policy ===
In October 2017, Murray was one of 19 senators to sign a letter to [[Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency Administrator]] [[Scott Pruitt]] questioning Pruitt's decision to repeal the [[Clean Power Plan]], asserting that the repeal's proposal used "mathematical sleights of hand to overstate the costs of industry compliance with the 2015 Rule and understate the benefits that will be lost if the 2017 repeal is finalized", and that denying science and fabricating math would fail to "satisfy the requirements of the law, nor will it slow the increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, the inexorable rise in sea levels, or the other dire effects of global warming that our planet is already experiencing".<ref>{{cite news |last=Manchester |first=Julia |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/357446-19-sens-question-epa-methodology-behind-clean-power-plan-repeal/ |title=19 sens question EPA methodology behind Clean Power Plan repeal |work=The Hill}}</ref>

In February 2019, in response to reports of the EPA intending to decide against setting drinking water limits for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid ([[Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid|PFOS]]) and [[perfluorooctanoic acid]] (PFOA) as part of an upcoming national strategy to manage the aforementioned class of chemicals, Murray was one of 20 senators to sign a letter to Acting EPA Administrator [[Andrew R. Wheeler]] calling on the EPA "to develop enforceable federal drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, as well as institute immediate actions to protect the public from contamination from additional [[per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances]] (PFAS)".<ref>{{cite news |last=Cama |first=Timothy |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/428102-senators-call-on-epa-to-restrict-key-drinking-water-contaminants/ |title=Senators call on EPA to restrict key drinking water contaminants |date=February 1, 2019 |work=The Hill}}</ref>

=== Federal budget ===
On December 10, 2013, Murray announced that she and Republican Representative [[Paul Ryan]] had reached a compromise agreement on a two-year, bipartisan budget bill, the [[Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013]].<ref name="positivereviewHill">{{cite news |last1=Wasson |first1=Eric |last2=Berman |first2=Russell |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/192760-gop-leaders-whip-members-on-budget-deal/ |title=Ryan deal gets positive review at closed-door GOP conference |date=December 11, 2013 |newspaper=The Hill |access-date=December 11, 2013}}</ref>

The deal was scheduled to be voted on first in the House and then the Senate. Some believed House Democrats would pass the deal as a way to reduce the [[Budget sequestration|sequester]] cuts,<ref name=assessingbudgetdealPete>{{cite news |last=Kasperowicz |first=Pete |title=Wednesday: Assessing the budget deal |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/scheduling/192708-wednesday-assessing-the-budget-deal/ |access-date=December 11, 2013 |newspaper=The Hill |date=December 11, 2013}}</ref> but the ranking Democrat on the [[United States House Committee on the Budget|House Budget Committee]], [[Chris Van Hollen]], said on December 12, 2013, that members of his party were outraged that House Republicans were planning to adjourn without addressing unemployment benefits.<ref name=vanhollenHill>{{cite news |last=Cusack |first=Bob |title=Van Hollen: 'Too early to say' if most Democrats will back budget deal |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/192926-van-hollen-too-early-to-say-if-most-dems-will-back-budget-deal/ |access-date=December 12, 2013 |newspaper=The Hill |date=December 12, 2013}}</ref> Van Hollen said that "it is too early to say" whether a majority of House Democrats would vote for the budget bill.<ref name="vanhollenHill"/> The deal was also unpopular with many conservatives.<ref name=ryannottarnished>{{cite news |last=Wasson |first=Erik |title=Conservatives: Ryan not tarnished by 'bad' deal |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/192787-conservatives-say-ryan-not-tarnished-by-bad-deal/ |access-date=December 11, 2013 |newspaper=The Hill |date=December 11, 2013}}</ref>

Murray put the controversial intelligence ports-data project [[Global Trade Exchange]] into the Homeland Security budget.<ref>{{cite book |last1=usa |first1=ibp |title=US Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee Handbook (World Strategic and Business Information Library) |date=2014 |isbn=978-1433057588 |page=14 |publisher=Lulu.com |edition=2014 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3CuBgAAQBAJ&q=Senator+Patty+Murray+Global+Trade+Exchange+into+the+Homeland+security+budget&pg=PA36}}</ref>

=== Foreign relations ===
==== Central America ====
In April 2019, Murray was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to President Trump, encouraging him "to listen to members of your own Administration and reverse a decision that will damage our national security and aggravate conditions inside Central America", asserting that Trump had "consistently expressed a flawed understanding of U.S. foreign assistance" since becoming president, and that he was "personally undermining efforts to promote U.S. national security and economic prosperity" through preventing the use of Fiscal Year 2018 national security funding. The senators argued that foreign assistance to Central American countries created less migration to the U.S., citing the funding's helping to improve conditions in those countries.<ref>{{cite news |last=Frazin |first=Rachel |url=https://thehill.com/policy/international/americas/437463-more-than-30-dem-sens-ask-trump-to-reconsider-cutting-foreign/ |title=More than 30 Senate Dems ask Trump to reconsider Central American aid cuts |date=April 4, 2019 |work=The Hill}}</ref>

==== Myanmar ====
Murray condemned the [[2017–present Rohingya genocide in Myanmar|genocide]] of the [[Rohingya people|Rohingya Muslim]] minority in [[Myanmar]], and called for a stronger response to the crisis.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sen. Todd Young urges action to end Muslim genocide in Myanmar |url=https://eu.indystar.com/story/news/2017/10/20/sen-todd-young-urges-action-end-muslim-genocide-myanmar/784590001/ |author=Hussein, Fatima |work=IndyStar |date=October 22, 2017}}</ref>

==== Russia ====
In December 2010, Murray voted for the ratification of [[New START]],<ref>{{cite web |first=Mark|last=Memmott |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/22/132262684/senate-ratifies-start |title=Senate Ratifies START |work=NPR |date=December 22, 2010 |access-date=December 22, 2010}}</ref> a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the U.S. and the [[Russian Federation]] obliging both countries to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads as well as 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years along with providing a continuation of on-site inspections that halted when [[START I]] expired the previous year. It was the first arms treaty with Russia in eight years.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/world/europe/23treaty.html |title=Senate Passes Arms Control Treaty With Russia, 71-26 |first=Peter |last=Baker |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 22, 2010}}</ref>

In December 2018, after [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Mike Pompeo]] announced the Trump administration was suspending its obligations in the [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]] in 60 days in the event that Russia continued to violate the treaty, Murray was one of 26 senators to sign a letter expressing concern over the administration "now abandoning generations of bipartisan U.S. leadership around the paired goals of reducing the global role and number of nuclear weapons and ensuring [[strategic stability]] with America's nuclear-armed adversaries" and calling on Trump to continue arms negotiations.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Ellen |url=https://thehill.com/policy/defense/421307-senate-dems-urge-trump-to-continue-nuclear-arms-control-negotiations-after/ |title=Senate Dems urge Trump to continue nuclear arms control negotiations after treaty suspension |date=December 13, 2018 |work=The Hill}}</ref>

====Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan====
[[File:Manned Ground Vehicle briefing in D.C..jpg|thumb|Major General [[Galen Jackman]] briefs Senator Patty Murray on the [[Future Combat Systems Manned Ground Vehicles|Manned Ground Vehicle]] program in Washington, D.C.]]
In October 2002, Murray was one of 21 Democrats in the Senate to vote against the War Authorization for [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invading Iraq]]. Quoted from her Senate speech:
<blockquote>
Mr. President, if we do take action in Iraq, there is no doubt that our armed forces will prevail. We will win a war with Iraq decisively, and, God willing, we will win it quickly. But what happens after the war? That will have as big an impact on our future peace and security. Will we be obligated to rebuild Iraq? If so, how? Our economy is reeling, our budget is in deficit, and we have no estimate of the cost of rebuilding. And with whom? As ''[[The New York Times]]'' columnist [[Thomas Friedman|Tom Friedman]] points out, there's a retail store mentality that suggests to some—if "you break it, you buy it."
</blockquote>

In December 2002, speaking to students at [[Columbia River High School]] in [[Vancouver, Washington|Vancouver]], Murray made a number of remarks about [[Osama bin Laden]] as she attempted to explain why the US had such problems winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world, and how bin Laden had garnered support among some in the Middle East. Among other things, she said that bin Laden has "been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building daycare facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He's made their lives better. We have not done that." This attracted attention from political opponents, who argued that this was inaccurate and constituted support for bin Laden.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/state/washington/2004-09-29-osama-ad_x.htm |title=Nethercutt uses Osama bin Laden in ad assailing Murray |work=[[USA Today]] |date=September 29, 2004 |access-date=February 24, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.columbian.com/12192002/clark_co/345147.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021228073027/http://www.columbian.com/12192002/clark_co/345147.html |archive-date=December 28, 2002 |title=U.S. Sen. Patty Murray – Senator asks students to ponder |work=The Columbian |author=Gregg Herrington |date=December 19, 2002 |access-date=February 24, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/100835_murray20.shtml |title=Murray's remarks on bin Laden draw GOP ire |agency=Associated Press |date=December 21, 2002 |access-date=October 14, 2010 |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}</ref>

=== Health care ===
In 2014, Murray introduced legislation in the Senate called The Emergency Contraception Access and Education Act. The bill would require hospitals that receive federal funding to provide rape victims with emergency contraception.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3422871/emergency-contraception-plan-b-morning-after-pill/ |title=Lawmakers Push Increased Access to Emergency Contraception |last=Alter |first=Charlotte |date=September 23, 2014 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=September 26, 2014}}</ref> In July 2014, she introduced an amendment to a bill in the Senate to require health insurance plans to offer contraceptive coverage to patients regardless of employers' beliefs, religious or otherwise. Her amendment required 60 votes to move forward, and all but three Republicans voted against the measure.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024082940_contraceptivesvotexml.html |title=Senate GOP blocks Patty Murray's contraception coverage bill |last=Song |first=Kyung M. |date=July 16, 2014 |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=September 26, 2014}}</ref>

In December 2018, Murray was one of 42 senators to sign a letter to Trump administration officials [[Alex Azar]], [[Seema Verma]], and [[Steven Mnuchin]], arguing that the administration was improperly using Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act to authorize states to "increase health care costs for millions of consumers, while weakening protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions". The senators requested the administration withdraw the policy and "re-engage with stakeholders, states, and Congress".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/u-s-senator-tammy-baldwin-calls-on-trump-administration-to-stop-pushing-health-insurance-plans-that-weaken-pre-existing-condition-protections/|title=U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Calls on Trump Administration to Stop Pushing Health Insurance Plans that Weaken Pre-Existing Condition Protections|date=December 20, 2018|publisher=urbanmilwaukee.com}}</ref>

=== Labor ===
In July 2019, Murray signed a letter to [[United States Secretary of Labor|U.S. Labor Secretary]] [[Alexander Acosta]] that advocated that the [[Occupational Safety and Health Administration]] initiate a full investigation into a complaint filed on May 20 by a group of Chicago-area employees of [[McDonald's]] that detailed workplace violence incidents, including interactions with customers such as customers throwing hot coffee and threatening employees with firearms. The senators argued that McDonald's could and must "do more to protect its employees, but employers will not take seriously their obligations to provide a safe workplace if OSHA does not enforce workers rights to a hazard-free workplace".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20190702/NEWS08/912329397/Democratic-senators-press-McDonalds-on-workplace-violence|title=Democratic senators press McDonald's on workplace violence|date=July 2, 2019|work=Business Insurance|first=Gloria|last=Gonzalez|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

In response to a February 2021 report by the [[Congressional Budget Office]] on the effects of a minimum wage increase,<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 2021 |title=The Budgetary Effects of the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 |url=https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-02/56975-Minimum-Wage.pdf |access-date=December 2, 2022 |publisher=Congressional Budget Office}}</ref> Murray said: "Today's report makes clear what we've known all along: raising the minimum wage — which hasn't increased since 2009 — to $15 an hour isn't just the right thing to do, it's good policy."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/08/minimum-wage-hike-15-an-hour-by-2025-would-result-14-million-unemployed-nonpartisan-congressional-budget-office-says/|title=CBO report finds $15 minimum wage would cost jobs but lower poverty levels|first=Eli|last=Rosenberg|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 8, 2021|access-date=February 21, 2021}}</ref> She was among the 42 Democrats to vote unsuccessfully to include a federal raise of the [[minimum wage to $15 per hour]] in the [[American Rescue Plan Act of 2021]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Everett|first=Burgess|title=8 Democrats defect on $15 minimum wage hike|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/05/democrats-15-minimum-wage-hike-473875|access-date=March 30, 2021|website=Politico|date=March 5, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

=== LGBTQIA+ rights ===
In 1996, Murray voted for the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] (DOMA), which banned federal recognition of same-sex marriage by limiting the definition of marriage to the union of a man and a woman.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=U.S. Sen. Patty Murray's admirable change of heart on gay marriage |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/us-sen-patty-murrays-admirable-change-of-heart-on-gay-marriage/ |access-date=15 March 2023 |publisher=The Seattle Times}}</ref> The DOMA was [[Obergefell v. Hodges|ruled unconstitutional]] in 2015, and later in 2023, she reversed her previous position and spoke in support of the [[Respect for Marriage Act]], which officially repealed the DOMA.<ref>{{cite web |title=Senator Murray Statement On Senate Passage of Bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act |url=https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-statement-on-senate-passage-of-bipartisan-respect-for-marriage-act/ |website=Senator Patty Murray |access-date=15 March 2023 |date=29 November 2022}}</ref>

In September 2014, Murray was one of 69 members of the House and Senate to sign a letter to then-[[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|Health and Human Services Secretary]] [[Sylvia Burwell]], requesting that the [[Food and Drug Administration|FDA]] revise its policy banning donation of [[corneas]] and other tissues by men who have had sex with another man in the preceding five years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=9.8.14 Bicameral Letter to HHS on MSM Policies |url=https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/9.8.14%20Bicameral%20Letter%20to%20HHS%20on%20MSM%20Policies.pdf |access-date=8 October 2023 |website=www.baldwin.senate.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/biologics-guidances/tissue-guidances|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319073505/https://www.fda.gov/Cber/gdlns/tissdonor.htm#iv|title=Tissue Guidances|first=Center for Biologics Evaluation and|last=Research|date=December 4, 2020|archive-date=March 19, 2008|journal=FDA|via=www.fda.gov}}</ref>

=== Opioids ===
In March 2017, Murray was one of 21 senators to sign a letter led by [[Ed Markey]] to Senate Majority Leader [[Mitch McConnell]] that noted that 12% of adult [[Medicaid]] beneficiaries had some form of substance abuse disorder, in addition to one third of treatment for opioid and other substance-use disorders in the United States being financed through Medicaid, and opined that the [[American Health Care Act]] could "very literally translate into a death spiral for those with opioid use disorders" due to the insurance coverage lacking adequate funds for care, often causing people to abandon treatment.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/baldwin-democratic-senators-call-trumpcare-disastrous-for-battle-against-opioid-crisis/ |title=Baldwin, Democratic Senators Call TrumpCare Disastrous for Battle Against Opioid Crisis |date=March 21, 2017 |publisher=urbanmilwaukee.com}}</ref>

=== Veterans ===
In August 2013, Murray was one of 23 Democratic senators to sign a letter to the Defense Department, warning of some payday lenders "offering predatory loan products to service members at exorbitant triple digit effective interest rates and loan products that do not include the additional protections envisioned by the law", and asserting that service members, along with their families, "deserve the strongest possible protections and swift action to ensure that all forms of credit offered to members of our armed forces are safe and sound".<ref>{{cite news |last=Cox |first=Ramsey |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/159307-senate-dems-ask-dod-to-protect-service-members-from-predatory-lenders/ |title=Senate Dems ask DOD to protect service members from predatory lenders |date=August 15, 2013 |work=The Hill}}</ref>

In December 2018, Murray was one of 21 senators to sign a letter to [[United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs|Veterans Affairs Secretary]] [[Robert Wilkie]], calling it "appalling that the VA is not conducting oversight of its own outreach efforts", in spite of suicide prevention being the VA's highest clinical priority, and requesting Wilkie "consult with experts with proven track records of successful public and mental health outreach campaigns, with a particular emphasis on how those individuals measure success".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/u-s-senator-tammy-baldwin-presses-va-for-answers-on-misuse-of-suicide-prevention-funds/ |title=U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Presses VA for Answers on Misuse Of Suicide Prevention Funds |date=January 4, 2019 |publisher=urbanmilwaukee.com}}</ref>

=== Gun control ===
Murray supports gun control. She supports a national assault weapons ban.<ref name="weapons ban">{{cite web |title=Blumenthal, Murphy join other Democratic senators to introduce assault weapons ban |date=November 8, 2017 |url=https://www.wtnh.com/news/politics/blumenthal-murphy-join-other-democratic-senators-to-introduce-assault-weapons-ban/ |access-date=8 November 2017 |ref=45}}</ref>

===Other positions===
In May 2006, Murray, along with 38 of 44 Senate Democrats, voted in favor of the [[Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006]] (S. 2611).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00157 |title=Roll Call Vote 109th Congress - 2nd Session: On Passage of the Bill (S. 2611 As Amended)|website=senate.gov |publisher=United States Senate |date=May 25, 2006 |access-date=February 24, 2007}}</ref> The bill includes provisions to improve border security, increases fines and other punishments for employers of [[illegal immigrant]]s, and creates a [[guest worker program]] (which includes an almost doubling of the number of [[H-1B visa]]s)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/30/78772_HNsenateh1b_1.html |title=Senate immigration bill raises H-1B limit |work=[[InfoWorld]]|first=Grant|last=Gross |date=May 25, 2006 |access-date=February 24, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427120849/http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/30/78772_HNsenateh1b_1.html |archive-date=April 27, 2007 }}</ref> and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02611:@@@D&summ2=m& |title=S.2611 |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=February 24, 2007 |date=May 25, 2006 |archive-date=November 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081127205953/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02611:@@@D&summ2=m& |url-status=dead }}</ref> The bill, with support from some in the GOP leadership, passed 62–36.

Murray repeatedly cosponsored legislation to create the [[Wild Sky Wilderness]] area in the Washington [[Cascade Range]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wild-sky-wilderness-bill-back-in-congress/ |title=Wild Sky wilderness bill back in Congress |work=The Seattle Times |first=Sam|last=Goldfarb |date=February 7, 2007 |access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> She eventually succeeded, with the bill signed by President [[George W. Bush]] on May 8, 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/bush-signs-bill-for-wild-sky-wilderness/ |title=Bush signs bill for Wild Sky Wilderness |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=October 17, 2020 |first=Matthew |last=Daly |date=May 8, 2008}}</ref> Murray has also supported legislation to increase the size of the [[Alpine Lakes Wilderness]], also in the Washington Cascades.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/more-land-sought-for-alpine-lakes-wilderness/ |title=More land sought for Alpine Lakes Wilderness |work=The Seattle Times |first=Lynda V.|last=Mapes |date=March 27, 2009 |access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref>

On January 30, 2008, Murray endorsed [[Hillary Clinton]] in the [[Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008|2008 Democratic presidential primaries]].<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=5605 |title=Washington Senator Patty Murray Endorses Clinton |website=hillaryclinton.com |date=January 30, 2008 |access-date=February 29, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227220642/http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=5605 |archive-date=February 27, 2008 }}</ref> One month later, the [[2008 Washington Democratic caucuses|Washington Democratic caucus]] awarded two-thirds of its delegates to [[Barack Obama]] and one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray endorsed Obama.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/06/06092008_Murray-gets-behind-Obama.cfm |title=Murray Gets Behind Obama |work=The Columbian |date=June 9, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613011541/http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/06/06092008_Murray-gets-behind-Obama.cfm |archive-date=June 13, 2008 }}</ref>

On May 28, 2021, Murray abstained from voting on the creation of the [[January 6 commission]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Washington Post |date=May 28, 2021 |title=Which senators supported a Jan. 6 Capitol riot commission |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/january6-commission-senators-vote/}}</ref> She cited a "personal family matter" for the abstention. Murray had expressed support for the commission and had talked about her experience on the day of the demonstration.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brunner |first1=Jim |title=Sen. Patty Murray misses vote on Jan. 6 commission, citing 'personal family matter' |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/sen-patty-murray-misses-vote-on-jan-6-commission-citing-personal-family-matter/ |website=The Seattle Times |date=May 28, 2021 |access-date=May 30, 2021}}</ref>

==Electoral history==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="5" |Washington State Senate District 1 election, 1988
|-
|'''Party'''
|'''Candidate'''
|'''Votes'''
|'''%'''
|'''±%'''
|-
|'''Democratic'''
|'''Patty Murray'''
|'''22,948'''
|'''53%'''
|
|-
|Republican
|Bill Kiskaddon (inc.)
|20,480
|47%
|
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em ; font-size:95%"
|+ [[List of United States senators from Washington|U.S. senator from Washington (Class III)]] results: 1992–2022<ref name="clerkresults">{{cite web |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html |title=Election Statistics |access-date=August 8, 2007 |publisher=Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives }}</ref>
!|Year
!
!|Democratic
!|Votes
!|Percentage
!
!|Republican
!|Votes
!|Percentage
!
!|Third Party
!|Party
!|Votes
!|Percentage
!
!|Third Party
!|Party
!|Votes
!|Percentage
!
|-
|[[United States Senate election in Washington, 1992|1992]]
|
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |{{nowrap|'''Patty Murray'''}}
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |'''1,197,973'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''54%'''
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |{{nowrap|[[Rod Chandler]]}}
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |1,020,829
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |46%
|
|-
|[[United States Senate election in Washington, 1998|1998]]
|
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''Patty Murray''' '''(incumbent)'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |'''1,103,184'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''58%'''
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |[[Linda Smith (American politician)|Linda Smith]]
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |785,377
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |42%
|
|-
|[[United States Senate election in Washington, 2004|2004]]
|
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''Patty Murray''' '''(incumbent)'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |'''1,549,708'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''55%'''
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |[[George Nethercutt]]
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |1,204,584
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |43%
|
|{{Party shading/Libertarian}} |J. Mills
|{{Party shading/Libertarian}} |[[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]]
|{{Party shading/Libertarian}} align="right" |34,055
|{{Party shading/Libertarian}} align="right" |1%
|
|{{Party shading/Green}} |Mark B. Wilson
|{{Party shading/Green}} |[[Green Party (United States)|Green]]
|{{Party shading/Green}} align="right" |30,304
|{{Party shading/Green}} align="right" |1%
|
|-
|[[United States Senate election in Washington, 2010|2010]]
|
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''Patty Murray''' '''(incumbent)'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |'''1,314,930'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''52%'''
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |[[Dino Rossi]]
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |1,196,164
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |48%
|
|-
|[[United States Senate election in Washington, 2016|2016]]
|
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''Patty Murray''' '''(incumbent)'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |'''1,913,979'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''59%'''
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |[[Chris Vance (politician)|Chris Vance]]
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |1,329,338
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |41%
|
|-
|[[2022 United States Senate election in Washington|2022]]
|
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''Patty Murray''' '''(incumbent)'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} align="right" |'''1,741,827'''
|{{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''57%'''
|
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |Tiffany Smiley
|{{Party shading/Republican}} align="right" |1,299,322
|{{Party shading/Republican}} |43%
|
|}

==Personal life==
Murray is married to Rob Murray and has two grown children: Sara and Randy. She lives on [[Whidbey Island]].<ref name=Murray2016>{{cite news|last=Brunner |first=Jim |title=Patty Murray to seek fifth Senate term in 2016 |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/patty-murray-to-seek-fifth-senate-term-in-2016/ |access-date=October 17, 2015 |newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=February 9, 2014}}</ref>

On August 2, 2006, ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that in 1994, Senator [[Strom Thurmond]] of [[South Carolina]] attempted to [[Sexual assault|grope]] his then-freshman colleague Patty Murray of Washington. ''The Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' reported that Murray asked for, and received, an apology. Through a spokeswoman, Murray declined to comment further on the incident.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/02/04/sen-thurmonds-mixed-race-daughter-dies-at-87/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208015518/http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/02/04/sen-thurmonds-mixed-race-daughter-dies-at-87/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-08 |title=Sen. Thurmond's mixed race daughter dies at 87 |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |first=Joel|last=Connelly |date=February 4, 2013 |access-date=April 24, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Book Says Thurmond Groped Murray Washington Senator Won't Talk About Elevator Incident|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/nov/08/book-says-thurmond-groped-murray-washington/}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Women in the United States Senate]]

==Notes==
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