Barbara Mikulski

Why can't you use the money that is left over from Ebola? That has been my position.

Thank you. Madam Attorney General, I want to go to the international scene and discuss international organized crime.

I look forward to hearing the Attorney General's testimony about the needs of the Justice Department and its impact on meeting the needs of the American people to be safe and to be secure.

We kept it going as chairmanships shifted because it was what I was looking for.

I want to be sure, as part of our efforts here that we do make sure that we have adequate funding to protect the men and women who work at our embassies.

We cannot be tepid on this.

The defense of our country lies not only in the Department of Defense, but others who exercise other levers of power and presence.

It should not go lower than that?

The world seems to be getting smaller because of technology, but larger in terms of problems.

Ebola money is actually committed, that it is not a pot of money we can turn to and move around.

We have to deal with this now.

I have several Maryland constituents that we scheduled to meet on the issue of hate crimes, for which they have been targeted.

We also had a shooting at Columbia Mall. We all have shootings. That is what is so terrible.

What can we do in just plain English to keep guns out of the hands of the criminals?

Do you feel that this rise in gun violence--not to interrupt--is related to the growing heroin epidemic?

We from Maryland, we from Baltimore particularly thank the Justice Department for all of their help during our recent challenges in Baltimore related to the uprising we had over one young man's death, Freddie Gray, which now is going…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I congratulate you on holding a hearing so quickly in the opening session and taking up the topic or the issue of guns and their excessive availability in our society.

We look forward to really moving on this agenda to resource the agencies to enforce the laws we have on the books and to find common ground on the President's executive orders.

It is a crime, a shame that Americans literally in their going to church to worship, going to see movies, going to college classrooms, going to elementary school have been victims of gun violence.

I want to thank you for your continuing progress on holding hearings on the issue of mental health.

This is a bill that protects America. It rebuilds it and invests in the future. I think it is a great bill, as a result of bipartisan effort. Let's vote for it, and may the force be with us.

PHA has written to Senators Richard Durbin and Barbara Mikulski to thank them for their leadership on the American Cures Act.

This is a very real problem in every corner of my State.

Every day 46 Americans die from prescription opioid overdoses. That's two deaths an hour--17,000 annually.

More Americans now die from drug overdoses than from car accidents.