Barbara Mikulski

8 out of 10 Americans think that everybody ought to have access to a traditional pension.

I believe that fiscal discipline requires policymakers to allow the upper-income Bush tax cuts to expire on schedule at the end of 2012.

In Senator Mikulski's home State of Maryland, where many of my patients also live, the DOD OCRP has funded research on important questions such as:

I know that Senator Barbara Mikulski has found our work important for them.

We think this could be the germination of where we could get some good bipartisan support

I think that is excellent. I would say to my colleagues, because I know PNC is in Maryland...

I hope this really sets the framework for the way this subcommittee will focus, very content-rich...

I do and it was because quite frankly the women of the House were now on the Armed Services Committee

You need to clean this up, you need to do this right.

For the boys it must be impactful to have a male family coordinator--because let's be candid about the workforce.

I attribute much of who I am to the Head Start program and my life mission to be the father to my children that I never had in part is a result of the life-lessons I learned while in Head Start.

Would it be your recommendation that when we reauthorize or look at the reauthorization of the childcare development grant that we just simply replicate the military program?

I appreciate the description of your day, and the fact that in most of the Judy Centers, which are outstanding, outstanding programs--and really, we want to compliment our colleague, Congressman Hoyer in really getting it started and our…

What we have to do is learn the lessons from those two programs, and that is part of why I say define the field.

I think it was time well spent.

So for the Federal Government we have inconsistency, incredible inconsistency.

When Head Start began every Head Start Program had to have a family coordinator

Workforce and workforce development would be a total issue here.

Clearly, we are failing our children if there is such a large unmet need.

You can't see it for war either.

It was an audit about where you are in your life and how we could help you get on with your life.

The Head Start coordinator was a different kind of audit.

The most important thing I do is build relationships with the families, to the kids, to the school, to the principal, to everybody.

There is limited career path for these workers as compared to say coming to work in the healthcare field.

A bank investing in kids rather than kids investing in the bank.