One Senator’s Decades-Long Fight for Universal Childcare

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Patty Murray began her career in the Senate pushing for a landmark piece of legislation: the Family and Medical Leave Act. Now, nearly 30 years later, she’s putting her weight behind a plan to grant universal access to affordable childcare. Guest: U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington state. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, can you hear me?
0:05.4	I can hear you.
0:06.4	How are you doing?
0:09.4	I called up Senator Patty Murray, Democrat from Washington State, to talk about her career
0:14.5	long obsession with child care.
0:17.4	Sorry for a little bit of a delay.
0:19.0	I am hiding in a closet from my children right now, which the irony is not lost on me.
0:25.0	I'm sorry I'm not laughing.
0:28.0	Okay, yeah.
0:31.3	We were both multitasking in this conversation.
0:34.0	The Senator was between votes.
0:35.8	That's why she's on her cell phone.
0:38.5	I love that you're laughing.
0:40.2	That is real.
0:41.2	Ben there.
0:42.2	Ben there.
0:43.2	Yeah.
0:44.2	If the Senator sounds a little giddy here, it's because she can almost taste a legislative
0:50.8	victory.
0:51.8	She's been plotting since before she was elected.
0:54.3	The president putting the weight of his office behind policies that would make daycare and
0:57.7	preschool more accessible that would provide paid family leave.
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