Sen. Patty Murray says Biden's family plan will help everyone
WASHINGTON — When Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., first arrived in the Senate in 1993, the first piece of legislation she voted on was the Family and Medical Leave Act.
It was first federally protected maternity and family leave program — although it was unpaid — and it opened the door for women to both work and have children without fear of losing their jobs.
Twenty-eight years later, the Washington senator could help usher through Congress the most expansive federal family support program in history and could be as transformative as the creation of the public school system.
Outlined in President Joe Biden’s joint address to Congress on Wednesday night, the American Families Plan would provide twelve weeks of paid family leave, child care assistance beyond seven percent of a family’s income and access to early education. It would also provide free community college.
“I’m just so excited about the opportunity for the first time really in my memory that we are really talking about what do we do for families,” Sen. Murray told NBC News on Thursday, the day after Biden’s first joint address to Congress.
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