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Patty Murray

DemocratPatty Murray

U.S. Senator · Washington

DemocratFederal

U.S. Senator from Washington

10 tracked promises, 4 rated

Washington

Washington

Represents Washington statewide

88/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
88
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+75) to 0–100, aggregated from 4 rated promises. Never an opaque single score.
How this is calculated →

How they won their seat

Patty Murray won the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Washington with 57.1% of the vote (1,741,827 votes).

57.1%
Win share
1,741,827
Votes for winner
3,047,900
Total cast
  • Patty Murray · Democrat57.1%
  • Tiffany Smiley · Republican42.6%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.2%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Patty Murray's record includes legislative activity in health care, workers' rights, and support for vulnerable populations, as evidenced by her sponsorship of bills like the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act and the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act. Additionally, her involvement in committees related to health, education, and veterans' affairs further indicates her legislative activity in these areas. Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Workers' Rights · Youth Homelessness · Veterans' Affairs · Reproductive Rights Alignment with declared positions: Consistent. Murray's sponsored bills and committee memberships align with her declared positions on health care, workers' rights, and support for veterans. Her legislative activity includes the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of her sponsored bills in achieving their intended outcomes is not clear; There is no information on her unlogged activities or informal efforts outside of her official record; The motivations behind her legislative priorities cannot be determined from the available data. Confidence: high (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Patty Murray has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2021. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Patty Murray has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.

Bills sponsored
33

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

33bills sponsored
33 awaiting status
013253850Bills2021: 33 awaiting status332021

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$6.3M
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$2.5M$5M$7.5M$10M2026: raised $6.3M2026: spent $6.4M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $0 (0%)Large individual (itemized): $0 (0%)PAC / committee: $1.0M (100%)100%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$00%
  • Large individual (itemized)$00%
  • PAC / committee$1.0M100%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+75 · based on 4 rated promises

  • Championed 4

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2017 · 4 rated promises

Each step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.

−100 worked against0+100 kept

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

4 tracked
  • Kept4
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
01234Jul 2026Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 6— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

10 promises across 9 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Reproductive Rights2
  • Daylight Saving Time1
  • Education1
  • Food Assistance / SNAP1
  • Government Funding1
  • Taxes / Wealth Inequality1
  • Veterans1
  • Workers' Rights1
  • Youth Homelessness1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)770%
  • Reputable news330%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
22
35
43
50

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

10 tracked promises

Not yet rated

Vowed to keep fighting Trump administration efforts to dismantle the Department of Education and to protect students' access to education.

EducationSpecific · measurablePromised Feb 2026
Sourceshttps://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minority/senator-murray-statement-on-secretary-mcmahons-newest-efforts-to-dismantle-the-department-of-education-and-jeopardize-support-for-students
Championedhigh confidence

Committed to keep pushing legislation (the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act) to shield doctors who provide legal abortion care from out-of-state prosecution.

Reproductive RightsSpecific · measurablePromised Sep 2022
Sourceshttps://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/republican-senator-blocks-bill-to-protect-doctors-providing-legal-abortion-careeven-as-republicans-push-national-ban-punishing-doctorshttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-118s1297ishttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s1297is/html/BILLS-118s1297is.htm
Championedhigh confidence

Pledged to keep fighting to pass legislation protecting the right to abortion and to get such a bill to the President's desk (the Women's Health Protection Act).

Reproductive RightsSpecific · measurablePromised May 2022
Sourceshttps://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/senator-murray-rallies-to-protect-the-right-to-abortion-alongside-washington-state-women-leadershttps://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00170.htmhttps://www.democrats.senate.gov/2022/05/11/roll-call-vote-cloture-on-the-mtp-to-s4132-womens-healthhttps://www.murray.senate.gov/murray-baldwin-schumer-blumenthal-lead-45-senators-in-introducing-womens-health-protection-act-to-restore-and-protect-americans-right-to-an-abortion-nationwide/
Not yet rated

Committed to introduce legislation closing an estate-tax loophole used by the ultra-wealthy to avoid taxes on inherited wealth.

Taxes / Wealth InequalityPromised May 2026
Sourceshttps://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/03/with-wealth-inequality-in-spotlight-patty-murray-t/
Not yet rated

Committed to work across the aisle to create new federal grant programs addressing the root causes of youth homelessness, co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation with Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

Youth HomelessnessPromised Mar 2026
Sourceshttps://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/murkowski-murray-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-address-youth-homelessness
Not yet rated

Vowed to oppose Republican cuts to SNAP food assistance, pledging not to stay quiet as families lose food aid.

Food Assistance / SNAPPromised May 2025
Sourceshttps://mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-politics/food-assistance-murray/4092796
Championedhigh confidence

Committed to fully fund veterans' health care through the VA and to block efforts to cut veterans' funding.

VeteransPromised Jun 2023
Sourceshttps://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/chair-murray-remarks-on-military-construction-veterans-affairs-appropriations-bill-at-markuphttps://www.stripes.com/veterans/2024-03-04/veterans-affairs-budget-health-care-housing-republicans-13207443.htmlhttps://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/bill-summary-military-construction-veterans-affairs-and-related-agencies-fiscal-year-2024-appropriations-billhttps://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/19/veterans-benefits-safe-after-senate-approves-3-billion-additional-funding-deadline.html
Championedmedium confidence

Committed to pass the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act to strengthen federal protections and help workers recover wages withheld by employers.

Workers' RightsPromised May 2022
Sourceshttps://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/murray-delauro-scott-introduce-bill-to-stop-wage-theft-and-improve-wage-recoveryhttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-117s4174ishttps://www.quiverquant.com/news/New+Bill:+Senator+Patty+Murray+introduces+S.+4919:+Wage+Theft+Prevention+and+Wage+Recovery+Acthttps://www.murray.senate.gov/murray-delauro-scott-reintroduce-bicameral-legislation-to-combat-wage-theft-strengthen-workers-rights/
Not yet rated

Called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to bring the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, to a floor vote.

Daylight Saving TimePromised Jul 2026
Sourceshttps://mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-politics/patty-murray-daylight-saving/4257257
Not yet rated

Pledged to keep fighting for Washington constituents' priorities, opposing a partisan House Republican continuing resolution over the funding it left out.

Government FundingPromised Mar 2025
Sourceshttps://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minority/on-senate-floor-senator-murray-urges-no-vote-on-house-republicans-cr

Verified record

646 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Dec 31, 1992

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,496,204, spent $1,342,038, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 646 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
858
Yea
218
Nay
589
Present
0
Not voting
51

Full voting record

858 votes
  • PN8518Nay
  • PN9304Nay
  • PN9304Nay
  • PN9382Nay
  • PN9303Not voting
  • PN9382Nay
  • PN9303Nay
  • PN9302Nay
  • PN9302Nay
  • PN9307Nay
  • PN9307Nay
  • PN8593Nay
  • HR6644Not voting
  • PN73033Nay
120 of 858
Page 1 / 43

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

9 positions on record

What this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.

  • Daylight Saving TimeStated position

    Called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to bring the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, to a floor vote.

    Sourceshttps://mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-politics/patty-murray-daylight-saving/4257257
    View position & sources →
  • Taxes / Wealth InequalityStated position

    Committed to introduce legislation closing an estate-tax loophole used by the ultra-wealthy to avoid taxes on inherited wealth.

    Sourceshttps://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/03/with-wealth-inequality-in-spotlight-patty-murray-t/
    View position & sources →
  • Youth HomelessnessStated position

    Committed to work across the aisle to create new federal grant programs addressing the root causes of youth homelessness, co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation with Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

    Sourceshttps://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/release/murkowski-murray-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-address-youth-homelessness
    View position & sources →
  • EducationStated position

    Vowed to keep fighting Trump administration efforts to dismantle the Department of Education and to protect students' access to education.

    Sourceshttps://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minority/senator-murray-statement-on-secretary-mcmahons-newest-efforts-to-dismantle-the-department-of-education-and-jeopardize-support-for-students
    View position & sources →
  • Food Assistance / SNAPStated position

    Vowed to oppose Republican cuts to SNAP food assistance, pledging not to stay quiet as families lose food aid.

    Sourceshttps://mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-politics/food-assistance-murray/4092796
    View position & sources →
  • Government FundingStated position

    Pledged to keep fighting for Washington constituents' priorities, opposing a partisan House Republican continuing resolution over the funding it left out.

    Sourceshttps://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minority/on-senate-floor-senator-murray-urges-no-vote-on-house-republicans-cr
    View position & sources →
  • VeteransStated position

    Committed to fully fund veterans' health care through the VA and to block efforts to cut veterans' funding.

    Sourceshttps://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/chair-murray-remarks-on-military-construction-veterans-affairs-appropriations-bill-at-markup
    View position & sources →
  • Workers' RightsStated position

    Committed to pass the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act to strengthen federal protections and help workers recover wages withheld by employers.

    Sourceshttps://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/murray-delauro-scott-introduce-bill-to-stop-wage-theft-and-improve-wage-recovery
    View position & sources →
  • Reproductive RightsStated position

    Committed to keep pushing legislation (the Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act) to shield doctors who provide legal abortion care from out-of-state prosecution.

    Sourceshttps://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/senator-murray-rallies-to-protect-the-right-to-abortion-alongside-washington-state-women-leaders
    View position & sources →
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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