Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"I say to my colleagues if you have got the ideas--we are going to be working on it."

"Do you feel we are getting conference spending under control?"

"NWS is so crucial to the functioning of our country and our international relations, that we have got to be prime time."

"our Senator Robert C. Byrd of blessed memory often spoke of us as the quiet guardians of the purse."