Childcare subsidies are what got U.S. Senator Patty Murray into politics more than 40 years ago. ”When I was fighting for it, it was sort of the unnamed, don’t talk about it issue. It was the woman’s issue. It was don’t tell anybody you can’t find childcare because you might not get a job,” said Murray, D-Washington, during her annual visit to the state legislature in Olympia. Murray said she still fights for increased funding for childcare, one of the issues that got her elected to the state senate in 1988. Four years later, Washington voters sent her to the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C. Murray said the continued expansion of childcare subsidies and food assistance for infants and children are her top priorities in the nation’s capital. READ MORE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/senator-patty-murray-returns-olympia-talks-childcare-pot-shops-biden/281-566f7fad-8d5b-4510-8460-5a2923438967