Barbara Mikulski

This is an issue hurting patients nationwide.

When it comes to the health care law and FDA's actions and inactions, we already know the answer.

I thank the Senator for raising the issue of local educational agency McKinney-Vento homeless education liaisons. Given their central role and responsibility in identifying homeless children and ensuring they receive education and early…

The Senator from Alabama finished his speech and didn't suggest the absence of a quorum, so I was going to speak. But since the Senator from Texas has been waiting, please go ahead and proceed. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Markey). The…

I'm looking ahead to December 11th and also the 2016 fiscal year.

It's our job to get OMB to give you the latitude to come back because of this new need.

You need to have an infrastructure to be able to respond.

I say to the Senator from Alabama, do you want to raise it now or do you want to raise it later?

To the Senator from California, I thank her for her excellent statement. She brings such experience and expertise. It is very much appreciated. Has the Senator looked at my supplemental recommendations where we have actually added money…

I think we have just heard something really interesting and I think--excuse me. The way the Senator from New Mexico concluded--was the Senator from California scheduled to speak next?

Working with Senators Tim Johnson and Mark Kirk, I convened an all-hands-on-deck hearing with these agencies.

That is not the case with Social Security.

William Donald Schaefer was known for many things, one of which was his passion for making sure that government worked.

This is why I am so pleased to join with Senator Cardin today in bringing Carolyn Colvin to you to be nominated for the permanent Social Security Commissioner.

I think she is up for the job, and I think I am not the only one.

They are the only two committees that the founders of the United States of America felt important enough to put into the Constitution.

Your committee, the Finance Committee, and my committee, the Appropriations Committee, are the only two committees in the Constitution.

If I could respond to the Senator from Illinois, yes, I am staying in Maryland because I had hoped we would even be working on conference reports and so on. But while the Senator is in Illinois and I am in Maryland, most of all, we do not…

I think we are doing a lot. But the question is, what is it really we are going to do?

The failure to act does not save money for the taxpayer.

I believe that this is an emergency designation.

Our first goal must be to protect the safety and health of the children.

I know there are many like myself who support comprehensive immigration reform, and there are many views on that.

There must be a muscular deterrence strategy to discourage families from sending their children with smugglers.

There also has to be muscular deterrence, going after criminals and gangs who so exploit these children.