Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"We love the Comfort, the hospital ship that we have watched since 1987 steam down the bay for really significant missions, serving the Nation."

"Our job is to protect them. And deployment and the rate of deployment, the ratio of deploy-to-dwell has a dramatic, demonstrable effect now."

"The Comfort, since the Comfort has deployed since 1987, I think, 9 or 10 times, two-thirds of that has been during hurricane season."

"We, in Maryland, feel so proud of military medicine, because we are the home to the new Naval Bethesda Walter Reed."