Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"I thought we could get DOD, bring Social Security and IRS in. And I'd really love for Appropriations to be the committee that cracks the code on the VA backlog."

"But the President wants you to do this job now and this job now is the Secretary of Labor, where while we are talking about reducing the public debt, we have another, enormous deficit, and that is cal..."

"I think what you sense here is a sense of bipartisanship and a desire to return to regular order."

"the indiscriminate cuts of the sequester will have an adverse impact on the ability of States and school districts to provide essential support and services to high-need students and schools."