Barbara Mikulski

Safety is my Department's highest priority.

It is a national security issue in terms of safety and reliability.

I feel like it is a new day, that there is a freshness in leadership and a commitment to rigorous follow-through.

I am proud to sponsor Senator Mikulski's National Metro Safety Act (S. 1506) to establish Federal safety standards for America's transit systems.

I want to once again send my deepest sympathies to the families, friends, and all those whose lives the victims of this tragedy.

I urge the subcommittee to include the President's fiscal year 2011 budget request for Metro in the fiscal year 2011 THUD Appropriations bill.

The financial crisis may have started on Wall Street, but this recession certainly has hurt everyone.

Promises made must be promises kept.

My top priority is jobs, jobs, jobs.

We're worried that Congress has been forced into some tax provisions that they wouldn't otherwise have had to be forced into because of the lack of system-wide cost containment.

We need to de-link it from the employer and give it to the individual American so everyone can shop around for their policy.

Well, the concept of the medical home, of course, was in the Baucus white paper, and it's something Senator Harkin and I picked up on.

What would they be? Because, as you know, this is a very controversial issue.

We have strongly embraced that as part of our basket of recommendations.

We need competition, and we also need malpractice reform to deal with these problems of high suits and high malpractice premiums.

Very good. Thank you very much.

I find it offensive and I find it morally repugnant.

Oh, boy, that's another sensitive one with me.

Coerced? We rail against what we ask China to do about coerced sterilizations.

We don't want to muzzle or gag rule anybody, but you've gone 2 minutes over.

Community providers that serve predominantly low-income, medically under-served individuals would be covered to provide any service deemed medically necessary or medically appropriate.

We need to take a serious look at Senator Burr's bill that would give everyone tax credits to go out and buy their own plan.

If we don't end up with everyone in, we're very concerned that at the end of the process when things become available, people will feel very unsatisfied.

Gender rating, preexisting conditions.

No one, no one in the United States of America, in order to get health insurance should ever, ever be coerced into getting a sterilization.