Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"I'm all for that. Everyone at this table is for a more frugal Government. But, what I don't want to be is--I'm ready to be frugal, but I don't want to be foolish."

"We want to join with the President in his national goal of out-building and out-innovating and out-educating."

"Rather than going into that today, here is what I suggest: At midnight today, the Senate Appropriations Committee will present its bill."

"I think my colleagues did not realize that many of the people who work at the FBI would be considered nonessential."