Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"That is where we get a bad rep. You know, that is where, quite frankly, some of the folks who are cranky with government have every right to be cranky."

"I would like a well-paced decisionmaking process and contact with the family."

"I was at a community fair, and there was something that someone gave me a little plastic shopping bag with the name of an agency, not a Federal agency head, and said, 'Here, enjoy it. You paid for it...."

"I am not asking that. I am asking about the law and the fact that every report that has been issued says the law is now either gray, dated, or nonexistent on this."