Barbara Mikulski

I will be honest, Mr. Holder. I am not looking for suggestions. I am looking for a comprehensive effort tasked by the White House to the Attorney General's office...

Why don't we take a look at that and see and come back to it?

I think we really have to congratulate law enforcement for that.

Spending excesses will not be tolerated.

I have fought to put dollars in the Federal checkbook to support the Department's efforts to combat terrorism and violent crime.

We want to make sure that the crime rates don't rise. We want to get crime rates down.

Our role is not to rubber stamp the President's budget--we did not do that for President Bush and we will not do that for President Obama.

At a time when the Nation remains engaged in a long-term conflict with those who advocate the use of terror against the United States, the OMB policy guidance and funding recommendations for fiscal year 2011 simply do not make sense.

How can we look into the eyes of the parents of these children and tell them DOJ and the administration are prioritizing criminals' re-entry into society over funding the Adam Walsh Act?

In 2008, Senator Mikulski and I included the first ever funding of $17 million for Adam Walsh enforcement in a war supplemental funding bill.

Let us make certain that there is no reduction of support for the COPS program and also for the Byrne grants

Aren't you cutting the COPS program by $100 million in the President's request?

In a perfect world flush with resources I would be supportive of funding the Second Chance Act, but the very idea of taking money from victims and law enforcement officers to educate and comfort terrorists, pedophiles, and career criminals…

We really salute the Obama administration for increasing funds in the Violence Against Women programs.

We said that is not good enough, and provided a $27.5 million increase above the President's extremely modest request of $15 million in 2010.

But you are the President's lawyer. You are America's lawyer. Any new legal framework must come from the advice, counsel, legal memos, et cetera, from the Attorney General's office, or am I wrong?

We are really proud of law enforcement because they knew where to go.

I rise to speak on the issue of financial services. Before I do, I wish to say to the Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Brown, that we in Maryland express our condolences to him and his loss. We have suffered many of our own. We are comrades…

This subcommittee stands in recess until Thursday, April 29 at 10 a.m.

But what do you think--you know, we all have these kind of now movie fantasies, the way we think the world works like the movies or now like video games.

I think you get a flare here. When it comes to the space program, we have really been a bipartisan group.

So if, in fact, you say to these bold, innovative companies on which we are now betting the future of our astronauts going to the space station or in a low orbit there is going to be a safety standard, but we won't have it complete until…

We just don't want to be spending money. We also want to be able to get results for our science.

I need good answers, and so does Senator Bennett, but----

Senator Hutchison presented a really doomsday scenario.