Senator Murray Urges Colleagues to Support Bipartisan Budget Act

On December 17, 2013, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate voted 67-33 to clear a procedural hurdle and move to a final vote to pass the federal budget agreement Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) reached with Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI). Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly last week to pass the budget agreement. To become law, the agreement still must pass a final, simple majority vote in the Senate tomorrow. Once passed, it will only require President Obama's signature to become law. Before the vote, Senator Murray spoke on the Senate floor to urge her colleagues to support the budget agreement.