Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"Does the administration now have a sense of real urgency to pursue this?"

"Do you feel that you have enough resources to be dealing with this magnitude of caseload and also with the fact that this is now involved with international activity?"

"When you use that phrase, they hold their sides and laugh. They don't think that we really mean it."

"I think it's often underestimated and it's undervalued because it does come in under everybody's radar."