Barbara Mikulski

So it's not only--first of all, the person answering the phone has to know everything about everything, because who knows what they get.

Legislation is really necessary. The Executive order the President put into effect is a very important step, but legislation is necessary to really give us the tools we need.

We value your commitment and dedication and we thank you for your service to our country.

I support the President's budget level of $1.5 trillion, the same as we agreed to in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2013.

What is your view of an approach to both the sequester and our economy?

The sequester has a big impact on the functioning of your agencies.

You have a big agency and a very, very complex agency.

I say that to my colleagues.

The Ryan budget cancels sequester for the Department of Defense only.

I am deeply troubled about what we face during the sequester.

We would like to be in conversation with you about cyber security.

I don't think you could find a lot of either elected or appointed officials who want to cut cancer research.

I want to welcome two of my colleagues: Senator Udall, who is new to the subcommittee, but not new to appropriations.

I support the President's budget request level of $1.058 trillion for discretionary programs.

I want to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. John Berry on his nomination to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Australia.

I think people don't quite yet grasp the significance of the sequester, because this is what the discrepancy is.

Keep your eye on those rockets and telescopes, and let's keep America flying.

I believe that NASA has been constrained over several years now with staying roughly in this $17 to $18 billion range.

We're going to get to the end of the day with a fiscal quagmire unresolved, the space agency and other agencies--underestimating what it's going to take.

We believe that NASA is an economic engine, and we want to continue out-innovating the rest of the world.

We're concerned that if we have sequester, we could end up by being pennywise and pound foolish.

Please, let's get realistic estimates, so we know what we're really facing and what we should really be doing to maintain a balanced space program.

We will be hopefully working on immigration reform.

I want to work with you and Senator Coats and the Committee to make sure that the President comes in at $645 million for these grants.

We have to all think that we are all in this together. We are all Boston. We are all West, Texas.