Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"If we can get the President's request funded at $848 million, based on having the $696 million that we have this year in 2014, we should be on target for an American capability in 2017."

"Thank you for fighting the good fight with commercial crew and trying to keep our funding as high as possible."

"You want to add 14--the President's budget and I believe yours is 14 positions, for a modest $3.2 million; is that correct?"

"We are all deeply troubled about what is going on in Ukraine, and the behavior of Russia and Mr. Putin's words and so on."