AS TRUMP ABANDONS WORKERS, SENATOR MURRAY, REPS. PRESSLEY, GARCIA, & STRICKLAND, REINTRODUCE BE HEARD ACT TO PROTECT WORKERS FROM HARASSMENT AND ABUSE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, reintroduced the Bringing an End to Harassment by Enhancing Accountability and Rejecting Discrimination (BE HEARD) in the Workplace Act of 2026, alongside Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-07), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX-29), and Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10), who introduced the bill in the House. In response to Trump and Andrea Lucas, Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), eliminating workplace anti-harassment guidance and attacking transgender workers for using the locker rooms, bathrooms, and private spaces, th...