Barbara Mikulski

I can't cut any more.

We have to make sure they have the right pay, the right resources, and the right respect.

And it's our job to resolve the crisis. Thanks for being so candid.

We could be headed to a shutdown.

I believe that demography is destiny.

I'm deeply troubled about where we are on the cuts to Social Security, the contemptuous attack on Social Security as a benefit.

HOPE VI restored the most severely distressed public housing across America and did so while leveraging double the Government investment in additional private development capital.

The budget also brings Federal partnerships to connect historically isolated people and neighborhoods to local, regional, and national economies

The expectation and the outcome should, first and foremost, be employment, and that should be the first consideration in the design of the systems.

They also have to be compensated and that has to be recognized.

I would like to thank the staff of USAID, both here and those who serve abroad, for, really, what they do.

We want to have ongoing conversations with you.

But there is Haiti that had a tremendous response of the United States of America.

The United States goal in Cyprus is to build regional stability through a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus dispute.

The fiscal year 2011 request for Europe and Eurasia is for Cyprus and is focused on encouraging the eventual reunification of the island.

Significant cuts to the budget could profoundly compromise ongoing and critical efforts in those front-line states.

Budgets are about values. They're about priorities.

We have so many issues that we now see as directly related to our national security that would be severely impacted.

We're very proud of you as America's top diplomat in the way you've represented the United States of America.

We would be also cutting back on what I think is an important part of our economic efforts to create jobs.

We have, in these six managed care institutions, really iconic, world-class, internationally branded institutions taking care of our military and having spectacular results not only in treating acute care, but in managing chronic illness…

We will have to defer hundreds of millions of facility maintenance projects because we won't have the resources.

But what about in MilCon and deferred maintenance on the things that you really know are very specific?

The fact is Senator Conrad said the enormous successes that we've had, the fact that there's not been another major attack on the United States of America, says something's got to be working and working pretty well. So we want to thank you…

I support the health care reform law and I am proud of the benefits that this law gives to Americans.