Barbara Mikulski

Exploration is great. We love extending the life of the space station.

Lack of funds will force ONMS to cut public access and recreation opportunities, cancel collaborative efforts with museums and universities that leverage private funds for taxpayer benefits, and terminate education initiatives.

Sanctuaries serve as economic engines for our communities and businesses, supporting thousands of jobs and generating billions of dollars in local revenues.

We strongly encourage you to support PAC funds that provide critical links between our ocean and the millions of Americans who visit the coast each year.

I believe the number of that bill refers to the paycheck fairness bill; is that correct? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator is correct.

What is now the pending business on the floor? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The motion to proceed to S. 2199.

But we need viable ports. We want those imports and exports, and Japan is one of our great trading partners with Toyotas and motorcycles.

We will be having a full committee hearing on physical infrastructure, how we have to look across the committees on our physical infrastructure needs

We will be holding a full committee hearing, all hands on deck, on innovation, particularly in terms of life science and others

This subcommittee will now stand in recess to May 1st at 10 a.m., when we take the testimony of the NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden.

We wish you well in your trade missions.

I really encourage that to my colleagues to be able to raise this because there are also other fees.

We want to keep that momentum going.

I think OMB has to worry about this. And I think they have to come to grips with what we would hope--many of us want to work on a bipartisan basis to permanently cancel sequester.

I want to raise this issue about the Patent Office and its fees.

If over-fishing is caused by poachers, why punish the American fishermen as they're trying to make their comeback?

We need to look forward to doing that communication.

One of the first issues we had was our very own colleagues didn't understand how fisheries disaster certification worked.

Madam Secretary, I think I've got the picture there. We want to work with you.

We're all Senators and we need to trust each other.

If you listen to our fishermen and our watermen, if they're cranky, then literally these fishermen put their hooks into us.

We want to keep that momentum going to get value for our dollar, and at the same time this communication, we resolve problems without trying to put it in report language.

We understand NOAA says they're actively working on a plan to be issued with the latest independent cost estimates as late as April 2014.

We need to make sure those are procured first.

When will we get your comprehensive plan, and how do you see that you want to continue to right the concerns...