Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"Now, we feel real bad that we are going to lose the Comfort. And in fact, we feel so bad in Maryland that it has the same magnitude, if you were in Baltimore when we heard the Comfort was going to lea..."

"You know, it is my job to fight to keep the Comfort----"

"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."