Barbara Mikulski

I appreciate that. And I think you see here a bipartisan support for the necessity of the satellites, but to make sure we're getting our money's worth.

I authored the provision in the PAHPA Reauthorization that created the HHS National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters (NACCD).

I would hope in the days ahead we could work with your Department on what you feel would have, as we work with our mayor and our community-based groups, what would be the effective juvenile justice programs.

We think this is a big issue. It is a big issue in our State.

I would hope because there is bipartisan effort in this area in terms of looking at what we need to do to safely reduce the prison population.

I want to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Leahy, the gentleman from Vermont, about the need for reviewing sentencing reform.

What other tools do you feel that you have on criminal justice reform to help restore this trust?

The community feels they get a lot of money from the Feds, and we do not have the necessary things.

Should there be training, whether it is latent bias, deliberate bias, and also the use of force?

That is a voluntary effort where police departments reach out to you, meaning the Attorney General.

Do you think that there should be mandatory training in the areas of ethnic and racial bias as well as also on the use of force?

Madam Attorney General, there are many programs you have functioning at the local level, certainly in Baltimore.

I do hope again for both this conversation and ongoing the examination of the so-called broken window policy.

We are looking forward to your advice to that, and we know that the Judiciary Committee will also be doing it.

Communities and non-profits want to help our young people.

We have to look at what does that mean.

I supported that policy, and I supported it as somebody who started her career as a social worker.

We could get beyond the petty politics that were the obstruction to that confirmation.

I am glad I went into orbit.

Presuming this actually happens, do you believe the completion and successful launch and operation of the James Webb will secure America's preeminence in astronomy for the next 30 or 40 years?

Our best days are in front of us, I can promise you that.

I have satellites on my mind. I would like it in the budget.

I know we are worried about our satellites, number one, not for the purposes of this hearing, it would be inappropriate, but we worry about the Chinese and what they are doing in terms of any satellite technology.

In other words, if they get more responsibility, does the resource follow the responsibility?

I want to be sure that our best days are not behind us, and we are committed to a balanced space program.