Barbara Mikulski

I do not think that is your responsibility.

I am not for creating a whole big, new program just to create it.

I wanted to take it to $300 million. So did my dear colleague.

We had a $100 million program. We got $3 billion worth of requests.

Should this be an area of an initiative to streamline?

But really, what would be funded under a homeland security block grant?

But right now, I think we need to fund existing programs and then look at what you are saying for the new ones.

We have to ensure that Governor Ridge has the authority to do more than the Drug Czar.

Governor Ridge is to be the leader.

One of the things I am putting in legislation is that there needs to be a designated Federal source for public information

I believe that we do not know who is in charge.

First of all, I think the National Governors Association will have their own way.

Obviously, President Bush has picked some of the top people for his own cabinet.

This is not to separate you two, because in some ways your fortunes are currently tied to the Governors.

Senator, we have more than three tourist attractions.

That comes under the Counterterrorism Act that we just passed.

Substantially less money.

I come from the Baltimore City Council. I know that not only are all politics local, but all problem solving is local.

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I assure the Senator from Florida that we are safety-obsessed when it comes to the safety of our astronauts. In this bill, we have actually provided $3.2 billion for the shuttle.

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