Barbara Mikulski

The advocacy to which you've devoted your life is really impressive.

Thank you for having this hearing so that we can see how the bill is being implemented and what are some of the challenges.

Thank you so much, Senators Mikulski and Burr, for this really remarkable high bar you've set in a bipartisan exemplary way for all the States.

I want to thank the members of the committee, especially Senators Mikulski and Burr, for your leadership in reauthorizing the CCDBG Act in 2014.

No child should ever be abused in their home or in a daycare home.

It's great working with you. The phrase, compassionate conservative, I think reflects your work here.

I join with you in your enthusiasm to welcome our wonderful witnesses today.

In my early days in the Senate when I came here, women were not included in the protocols at NIH. This was 1986, not 1886.

We need to put that research into action, and then when you look at the way we do not fund programs like IDEA, then groups with learning challenges are pitted against each other for resources.

Each and every one of these testimonies were so compelling, and we could spend all morning just talking to one of the people at the table.

A U.S. Senator from the State of Maryland

We, in Maryland, are here to support the nomination of Dr. Hayden to be the chief librarian of the Library of Congress.

I believe children are on the move and they will constitute a tremendous threat in the future unless we show them humanity, compassion, and a way forward.

I support these new ideas, and you know, Precision Medicine, the BRAIN Initiative, and all of this promise...

It has been my great joy, one of the greatest joys I've had being in the Senate, was to be able to represent the National Institutes of Health.

I'm ready for the breakthrough.

Number one, do no harm.

On behalf of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I am writing to express our strong support for the Marine Debris Program.

We won't march. We won't wear banners unless you don't pass the bill.

As you talk about the centennial for the National Park Service, be aware that we are coming upon in 2020 the centennial for the passage of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote.

I am here on behalf of the 20 women of the United States Senate to ask you to consider the bill authorizing the Sewall-Belmont House to be a national park site.

We are looking forward to hearing what she has to say about how we can use this other form of American power.

If we do not focus on this, I think we are heading for a future disaster.

I really worry about the children of the world.

Well, thank you very much. We have to stand up for the future.