Barbara Mikulski

It saddens me to acknowledge that this will be the last LHHS appropriations bill authored by Senator Harkin.

If we continue to attack people because of the job they did for which they had no decision about, we are going to have a chilling effect on who comes into government. If these two men whom I am recommending and whom the President has…

I think we will get it.

We are committed on a bipartisan basis to a balanced space program.

We are troubled over these continually shrinking resources.

This is not a new problem.

We are worried about protecting 'dot mil,' okay? I think 'dot gov' is very nifty.

As long as you continue to fight as you have been doing, you and Senator Shelby, on the importance of commercial crew...

We are committed to the safety of our astronauts.

Thank you for fighting the good fight with commercial crew and trying to keep our funding as high as possible.

I am supporting the President in his sanctions. We have to take a strong stand, and we are proud of our NATO alliance.

We are all deeply troubled about what is going on in Ukraine, and the behavior of Russia and Mr. Putin's words and so on.

Well, you and I really strongly disagree on this, Administrator Bolden. We really do strongly disagree on this.

I don't want to be beating a dead satellite here, but Earth science is $56 million below fiscal year 2014.

I don't want to talk about future missions. I want to talk about now.

So that is why we worked with Senator Murray and Senator Sessions to pass a budget that canceled sequester.

Are we really funding a lot of things at the expense of space science?

I am committed to a balanced space program, human spaceflight, reliable transportation system to both the space station and areas beyond, the space science, and, of course, aeronautics.

So when we saw this $186 million, it was deeply troubling.

I can't thank Senator Shelby enough for the way he helped move that omnibus.

I was deeply troubled to receive the President's budget. I was deeply troubled in the area of NASA because there was a reduction of $186 million from fiscal 2014.

NASA needs this funding to support a balanced space program that funds human space flight, reliable and affordable transportation systems and space science.

Frankly, my colleagues and I do not agree with how NASA's proposed budget balances these cuts.

Let me start by saying that I am unhappy with NASA's budget.

It is part of this very bipartisan trust that we have in each other, and I appreciate it.