Barbara Mikulski

We are working on a bipartisan, bicameral basis to restore regular order.

I want to thank the men and woman at this table and the people who work at the agencies that they are the executive leadership of.

I was thrilled to see our bill pass with overwhelming bipartisan support and a vote of 96-2.

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

Kids must be taken off waiting lists and provided with the child care they deserve.

The health data on women are changing, and the recent IOM report over the last 2 years shows that mortality and morbidity among women is on the rise.

So we have started what is called a hub and spoke project centered in Senator Mikulski's favorite location, Frederick, Maryland.

We do not want to use that phrase anymore--to $40 billion.

We need to not only fund the research, we need to support the people who do the research.

I feel our monument to you, to both you, to Senator Specter, to Bill Frist, Ted Kennedy, is the way we walked across the aisle.

I recall coming to the United States Senate. I was sworn in 1987, working with then the beloved Nancy Kassebaum, you, and Ted Kennedy, when women were not even included in the protocols, many of the research things, at NIH.

The fact that Senator Shelby is here, the vice chairman of the Appropriations, and myself shows our commitment to really trying to make sure that NIH has the resources it needs to continue to be the premiere global agency for biomedical…

There are many more questions to be asked, but we're now going to move to our classified hearing.

And a presence, that the FBI is not the KGB.

You want to add 14--the President's budget and I believe yours is 14 positions, for a modest $3.2 million; is that correct?

We don't have a national police force. America doesn't want it. But we have an FBI that provides national resources and deals with Federal crime.

The purpose of this hearing is not fiscal year 2016, but then the biggest threat to your momentum would be not a stringent budget in fiscal year 2016, but a sequester that just goes across the board; is that correct?

But your request really goes to people. It's not a big plane, it's not a big aircraft carrier.

We want to thank the entire FBI for the way that they protect America.

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

We are troubled over these continually shrinking resources. Remember, we are given a cap on discretionary spending.

Cyber has been an ongoing problem. And we hope that there continues to be a sense of urgency.

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

NASA has some pretty big challenges.

This is a very difficult one.