Barbara Mikulski

Health care reform saves lives and saves money. It puts more dollars in families' pockets and not into insurance company's profits.

This law puts a stop to that. Insurance companies can no longer abuse women after they have been abused by their husbands.

Health care reform reduces the fear families have about providing medical care to their loved ones.

I am proud of what we accomplished in health reform.

It is with great pleasure that Senator Cardin and I bring to the Senate Judge Ellen Hollander, an outstanding woman who is currently a member of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals; has been deemed qualified, very qualified by the…

I rise to make a clarification regarding a project that is listed in the congressionally designated spending table to accompany Division G, the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies division of fiscal year 2011 omnibus appropriations…

God knows, that our children are going to count on us.

It's not about gender; it's about the agenda, to keep on fighting.

For me, today, being with you, it is a privilege, and it is personal.

The creation of MWAA represented a commitment from Congress to the residents of the DC Metropolitan area on the safe operation of Reagan National Airport.

I come today in strong support of Elena Kagan. I am of the generation when a woman on the Court was going to be viewed as a novelty. I remember very well when Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor and the world and the United States…

Now we see that what has been created in some instances is not a ladder of opportunity, but a black hole of debt and disappointment and heartbreak.

If they lied to you to get you in, do they lie to you when you're there?

It's a rip off of the student. And it's a rip off of the taxpayer. And I think it's despicable.

Should we get this information for Federal prosecution?

But what will your role be in this, as DNI?

I think we need to just get together among ourselves and discuss how reform starts with us, meaning the Senate and the House.

I think that in his job he will be able to speak truth to power--which God knows we need it--and he will speak truth about power, which we also need.

If there is a failure in or questions about the authority and the functionality of the DNI, then it's incumbent on Congress to look at the legislation, but not necessarily fault the DNI nominee for the failures of the legislative framework.

I think we would do well to approve General Clapper.

In fact, I think it's all been great, because here it is 2010, July 20th, and there's not been an attack on the homeland.

I believe that once again she's done a great service to the nation.

I think Mr. Clapper makes a great point, that it does come in appropriations.

I want that seafood to be safe, but I want those workers to be as safe as the shrimp.

I will repeat it, and I concur with you. We do not know whether we're going to end up with a new gulf war syndrome.