Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"I apologize for being late. It was not only the traffic, but, as you can see, I'm now looking at the health care system from the wheelchair up."

"We're worried that Congress has been forced into some tax provisions that they wouldn't otherwise have had to be forced into because of the lack of system-wide cost containment."

"We need to de-link it from the employer and give it to the individual American so everyone can shop around for their policy."

"Well, the concept of the medical home, of course, was in the Baucus white paper, and it's something Senator Harkin and I picked up on."