Barbara Mikulski actually said...

I believe that there is a real commitment on this subcommittee, and people like Senator Tom Coburn had excellent ideas.

I believe that there hasn't been nationally, in every agency, the kind of vigor that we need really in pursuing Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

It is time to retire the space shuttle, and the President provides for that at the end of calendar 2010.

If this proposal is the best that we can do as a Nation, then we do not deserve, I believe, the rich heritage of human space flight.