Barbara Mikulski: “Colleagues, the vote has just started, and here is what I dearly would like to do.”

We are safe, we are secure, and we are undeterred.

I just want to comment. On June 4, we are going to hold our hearing on the FBI budget request.

It will be a proud day for our country when every girl who visits the National Mall is able to see herself represented amongst the giants of our national story.

As the longest serving woman in congressional history, I proudly stand on the shoulders of the suffragists who fought bravely and boldly for generations to secure women's political equality.