Barbara Mikulski

We need to know what planes, what sequencing, and what money.

The Commerce Department's job is to work with the President, the Congress, and the private sector to really create jobs.

Build it here. Sell it everywhere.

I am obsessed with cyber espionage.

We don't want a sequester either.

We don't want NOAA cut loose.

We are looking at NOAA.

We need you, at the Secretary's level, to really use whoever you will designate to be a hands-on manager of these costs that are exploding at NOAA, because of the satellites.

It's either going to stay here or it's going to go, through due diligence of the Congress working with the President's suggestion.

On behalf of Senator Pryor, and myself, and really Senator Hutchison, and all of us, we need to know the consequences.

Thinking that it's a bad idea doesn't give a plan for a contingency. We all think it's a bad idea.

So, what they need is new wings. This is big, and it is serious.

I want to join with the Senator here, because there is confusion, and we are deeply concerned...

So, in other words, we would build in standards to the technology, where it would only be self-enforcing and self-policing. Is that right?

The President made an Executive order that I think was premature.

We believe that if you invent it, we should be able to help you protect it.

Build it here, sell it everywhere.

I thank the subcommittee for supporting BVPA funding in the past and ask that the program be funded at or more than the level recommended in the President's fiscal year 2013 budget, or $24 million.

I genuinely appreciate this opportunity to submit testimony in support of a program key to law enforcement officer safety: the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Act (BVPA).

I'm concerned that the Congress doesn't have a sense of urgency about cyber, but I'm also concerned that the Congress does not have a sense of urgency about the threat of sequester.

When the issue is related to public integrity, and on the issues related to the Stevens matter, this is a bipartisan set of requests

60 percent of FBI's request is in the area of national security.

I think we need Guantanamo Bay. I think we need the ability to hold people that are suspected terrorists...

I want to know how the FBI is protecting Americans from violent crime and also fraud in their communities.

I have four criteria. Our judicial nominee must have absolutely high personal integrity, must bring judicial competence and temperament, have a commitment to core constitutional principles, and a history of civic engagement in Maryland.