Senator Murray's Remarks About Her Longtime Fight to Make Summer Nutrition Benefits Permanent

U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke on the Senate Floor about her decade-long fight to reduce child summer hunger by providing families whose children are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals with an electronic benefit transfer (EBT) card to buy groceries over the summer—a policy knows as “Summer EBT.”