WASHINGTON — Sen. Patty Murray waited three decades to become the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, one of the most sought-after roles in Congress and one that gives undeniable benefits to the Washington state voters who first sent her to D.C. in 1992.

In an interview with The Spokesman-Review, Murray said she intends to run for another six-year term in 2028, at the end of which the now-74-year-old lawmaker would be 84. Sen. Jim Risch, an 82-year-old Idaho Republican, has said he will run again in 2026, and 76-year old Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., confirmed in a brief interview that he plans to do the same in 2028. That’s hardly retirement age in Congress, where the 91-year-old Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the GOP chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, has already f

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