Barbara Mikulski

I want you to know, during these times, particularly relating to, as we face sequester, and the continuing funding resolution, that just as your people are ready to fight for America, we were ready to fight for you.

Senator Durbin, you really were a stalwart as you stepped forward.

We want you to know as you struggle with so much, we are here working on a bipartisan and even bicameral basis to be able to help you.

I voted against the last Higher Education Act because it authorized a new stack of regulations as tall as I am.

I'm concerned that IA qualification may act as a barrier to Garrett County getting the help it needs for its poor and elderly residents.

My first legislation as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee was taking over the disaster spending bill to get it passed into law.

The TV cameras have left, but the compelling human need has not.

My goal is the outcome of the protection of dot gov for the American people's interests.

You need a chief executive.

Our Senator Robert C. Byrd of blessed memory often spoke of us as the quiet guardians of the purse.

Colleagues, the vote has just started, and here is what I dearly would like to do.

My constituents work so hard for their money, and when they pay their taxes on April 15th, they have got to have confidence in us.

Was that by employees or contractors?

They are getting ready to spend money, and I am not sure the CIOs at agencies know what to do.

If you do not ask the right question, there is no way you can get the right answer.

I want to make sure that I am myself not a boondoggle.

The Census is a constitutionally mandated responsibility. It is the only thing in our bill that is constitutionally mandated.

NWS is so crucial to the functioning of our country and our international relations, that we have got to be prime time.

We are going to work right up with you all the way through Memorial Day...

I say to my colleagues if you have got the ideas--we are going to be working on it.

Do you feel we are getting conference spending under control?

I want to protect you. I mean, I want to make sure there is the money there to protect you.

I think we have a real star in our new head of OMB that is coming.

I worry about techno-boondoggles.

By protecting dot gov, we protect then the customers of dot gov.