I find it offensive and I find it morally repugnant.

All Marylanders were shocked and dismayed to hear about this new organized crime practice of using cell phones in prisons.

That's why I'm a cosponsor of the Hutchinson bill.

We do have a responsibility here, and I hope that after this hearing... we can move my bill.

I introduced Senate Bill 251, the Safe Prisons Communications Act.

This is a critical piece of legislation of which I am a proud to be a co-sponsor.

Maryland's talented Governor Martin O'Malley wanted to spring into action to jam cell phone transmissions from prison.

He actually knows the maritime industry, which will be very important for this job.

And while we are working with the ships that sail the sea, do not forget Charlie Bolden and Lori.

I am actually here in favor of every one of your nominees, as someone who is the appropriator for the Commerce Justice Science Department, the appropriator for NASA, I am an enthusiastic supporter of Charles Bolden and Lori Garver, who I…

He has my full support, as does Senator Cardin when--and he will be here.

But he really wants to serve America and make sure that our maritime industry is reenergized.

the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established the Baltimore City Flipping and Predatory Lending Task Force

I am proud to say that the Community Law Center was the staff for this task force.

I turned to my senator, Senator Mikulski, in a letter detailing his plight as a Holocaust survivor and asking for her advice.

women still just earn 78 cents for every dollar our male counterpart makes.

We appreciate the continued leadership of committee members Senators Kennedy, Brown, Hatch, Enzi, and Bingaman on this issue.

I don't think you want to tag it to, in any way, payment.

Well, and we wouldn't because it is not tied to a payment system.

It kind of followed on to what we talked about last night and drew the distinction between best practices which the academies often identify in a much broader scope.

We applaud Senators Brown, Collins, Schumer, and Vitter for their leadership in sponsoring this critical legislation.

If we could expand the capacity of our schools of nursing, it would be a major step in increasing the nursing workforce.

We don't want them to go to Iran.

Are we going to mandate medicine, which I don't believe Congress or any arm of it should, or any part of our government.

First of all, I just want to thank you all for being here, and I also want to thank you for what you do every day.