WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Today, following remarks (https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-floor-remarks-on-bipartisan-cr/) urging passage of the bipartisan short-term funding bill introduced yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, briefly spoke on the senate floor about the devastating wildfires sweeping through the Spokane region in Washington state, and urged Trump to approve the Expedited Emergency Declaration for Central and Eastern Washington state.
Senator Murray's remarks, as delivered, are below:
"Finally, I cannot come to the Senate floor without acknowledging the heartbreaking devastation we are seeing in Spokane and...