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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

Wow, that's interesting, so family history always has to be essential to providing good clinical care. But it wouldn't be the trigger.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

And looking over your shoulder because we don't want to create a nanny State here.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

I do believe that we will be, for everything we've heard from our President, that we will be doing health care reform.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

So you actually do two types of coaching? One is to those who actually are the providers, the clinicians.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

We have to have health insurance reform, not health care financial reform.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

But you incentivized also for them to invite you in to look at what's going on.

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Barbara Mikulski
@barbaramikulski· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

We're going to make sure that no matter where they go, we're not competing on safety or high quality of care that a health system that spends $2 trillion should guarantee safe care to our citizens.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

the minority use of crack cocaine is much lower than the incarceration rate of minorities for violations of the crack cocaine statutes.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

Clearly, terrorism--fighting terrorism was a national priority that, by necessity, received much more attention and requirements for the local U.S. Attorney's Office to devote its resources.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

I want to talk a little bit about the U.S. Attorneys and the supervision of U.S. Attorneys.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

We know that the overwhelming percentage of people who are incarcerated on crack violations are African American and minorities.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

I appreciate that clarification for the record.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

I think it's, 5 grams will trigger a minimum sentence of 5 years for crack cocaine violations, whereas powdered cocaine, it's 500 grams, so you have a 100:1 disparity.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

There are things that we can do as far as the statutes are concerned, and we look forward to your recommendations in that regard.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

I would just urge you to take a very active role in that regard, and I thank you for your response.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Feb 4, 2009

The Constitution is not only loved and respected, it is the basis of the rule of law of our country.

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