Patty Murray Kills Bipartisan Measures To Protect America’s Southern Border

WASHINGTON – As our nation’s border states suffer from mounting cross-border violence, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) voted today to kill two bipartisan measures that would protect the United States’ border with Mexico. The amendments to protect our country’s porous southern border were supported by at least 12 of Murray’s fellow Democrats.

As the Associated Press reports:
President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate on Thursday killed a move by presidential rival John McCain to send an additional 6,000 troops to the U.S-Mexico border. The Arizona Republican says the security situation along the border has deteriorated so badly that 3,000 troops are needed just to help protect his state. Even though McCain won support from a dozen Democrats, he failed to muster the 60-vote supermajority required to adopt his plan under the rules of the 100-member Senate. Democrats also repelled more than $2 billion in additional border security spending proposed by border state Republicans John Cornyn of Texas and Jon Kyl of Arizona.

“By killing these bipartisan proposals to protect America’s vulnerable border with Mexico, Patty Murray once again put her narrow D.C. political interests ahead of the safety and well-being of voters in Washington State and across America. There’s no doubt that voters will hold Murray accountable for her misplaced priorities and partisan agenda when they cast their ballots this November,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokeswoman Amber Marchand.