Barbara Mikulski

You are exactly right, Senator Tester. And I think we have all just said that.

We need to add immigration judges and legal services to make sure that we can determine their legal status.

As Barbara Mikulski often says, we will stand sentry on this issue.

Because I was listening to what she said. Senator Reid proposed a 60-vote threshold on amendments to our appropriations bill. It was rejected. OK. The Senator said now she wouldn't object----

I am concerned about the decision to prevent the Naval Air Station Patuxent River from working with non-Navy customers.

Women, before the ACA, paid much more, often 20 percent to 30 percent more for their insurance.

Apart from wanting to be a good employer, do you feel that these practices increase productivity and profit, or are they kind of neutral, or are they negative?

Women in this country have always worked. There is somehow or another this myth that there are these little ladies at home...

The Paycheck Fairness Act would enable the Department of Labor to gather better information about wage differences.

The Paycheck Fairness Act, introduced by Senator Mikulski and Representative DeLauro, is a commonsense piece of legislation.

It would be a tragedy to reach out and take those protections away from them.

Smoking reduces life expectancy by at least 10 years and the CDC has said that tobacco use results in at least $133 billion worth of direct medical care costs each year.

It is currently estimated that one in five deaths can be directly attributed to tobacco use.

I must say, I really admired, one, your integrity in working with me. You were a straight shooter, and what you said you meant, and what you said, you did.

And today is not the day, but we really need to work together on this issue of the unaccompanied children coming across our border, so that they have a home and that they have a way to get to a home, and we have a way to get to the funding…

This is a humanitarian crisis, and we have to go to the edge of our chairs to at least get the estimate for fiscal year 2015.

We have gone from 6,500 to 60,000.

Tell me what you need, and don't stick us with the bill at the end.

We don't want to warehouse them. We try to put them in foster care.

We have children pouring over the border from Central America.

I am really frustrated about this.

I am getting lost here. Do you have the money or don't you? I mean, is this enough or not?

This is the Congress that did it.

Thank you for holding this hearing. I wanted to come for several reasons.

We were able to make important reforms that improved the quality of care children receive.