Barbara Mikulski

This is a self-inflicted wound on us. This is not what an external threat from a foreign country or organized crime is doing to us.

Madam Chairwoman, let me acknowledge the leadership that you and this subcommittee have provided to the FBI.

I'm concerned about the negative impact that it has, first of all on the people who work at NIH and those who participate in the extramural programs.

I just wanted to just tell you in the warmest way, and to my colleagues, what a sense of joy and pride that I have representing NIH.

I'm going to work with Senator Harkin and Senator Moran across party lines, to make sure they get the kind of allocation they need to do their job.

As Senator Mikulski said, in my home State of Maryland, we have already moved forward there.

The fact is there's no excuse if we don't act on this legislation.

I do believe you have to go to your leadership corps. It starts at the Air Force Academy, the kind of training that your Air Force uses.

We have now 40 years of history of how to address the issue of rape.

I wanted to come and participate as a member of this subcommittee, but also to say that we look forward to, in a short time, giving you an allocation, hopefully.

What troubles me about your answer, sir, is that you're treating this as a cluster of individual cases rather than a nationwide problem.

Would you take a look at that and see if that would constitute a reform?

So it's not better. It has to be pretty near perfect.

I think this is not about you, sir. This is about us.

But in order to implement ACA, you can't use the Appropriations Committee or the sequester to derail a policy that has now been passed into law.

Thank you very much. We're glad we invited you. That was a very content-rich presentation.

I believe they should pay when the case has been concluded, not during the case.

I want to acknowledge that most of these payroll agencies are honest people and small to medium-sized business must rely upon them.

Well, right now does the IRS notify taxpayers when a payroll service provider tries to change its client's business address?

We have now passed ACA. The House has voted 39 times to repeal it, and I would hope as we go through our regular order we don't use the various Appropriations subcommittees to go after ACA by proxy.

We hear this and it's not colored, it's unvarnished and independent.

You know, they identify management problems, give us a heads-up if we're heading to some technology boondoggles.

See, these go to systemic reform, not every case is different.

Not better. It's got to be solved. I'm going to be pretty firm about this.

I'm for our Federal employees having certainty, that if they work hard and they have a job with their Government and they're doing the job and meeting performance standards they should get pay.