Patty Murray
Democrat · WA · U.S. Senate
Bio
Patricia Lynn Murray is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Washington, a seat she has held since 1993. From 2023 to 2025, she held the position of president pro tempore of the United States Senate, becoming the first woman to hold the position. Prior to serving in the U.S. Senate, she served in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 33.7 years
- First took office
- 1993 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 9 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 76
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Assistant Senate Minority Leader · 2019–2021
- President Pro Tempore of the Senate · 2021–2025
- Assistant Senate Majority Leader · 2021–2023
- Everett, WA · 425-259-6515
- Seattle, WA · 206-553-5545
- Vancouver, WA · 360-696-7797
- Tacoma, WA · 253-572-3636
- Spokane, WA · 509-624-9515
- Richland, WA · 509-453-7462
- Olympia, WA · 360-205-2878
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $2.3M – $5.2M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $2.1M – $5.1M
- Since 2018
- +$1.9M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Patty Murray's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (Ex Officio)Energy and Water Development (Ranking Member)Financial Services and General Government (Ex Officio)Department of Homeland SecurityDepartment of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies (Ex Officio)Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related AgenciesMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesState, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Ex Officio)Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies (Ex Officio)Department of DefenseLegislative Branch (Ex Officio)
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Murray's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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