Barbara Mikulski

That's why I'm a cosponsor of the Hutchinson bill.

We do have a responsibility here, and I hope that after this hearing... we can move my bill.

He actually knows the maritime industry, which will be very important for this job.

But he really wants to serve America and make sure that our maritime industry is reenergized.

He has my full support, as does Senator Cardin when--and he will be here.

I am actually here in favor of every one of your nominees, as someone who is the appropriator for the Commerce Justice Science Department, the appropriator for NASA, I am an enthusiastic supporter of Charles Bolden and Lori Garver, who I…

And while we are working with the ships that sail the sea, do not forget Charlie Bolden and Lori.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established the Baltimore City Flipping and Predatory Lending Task Force

I am proud to say that the Community Law Center was the staff for this task force.

I turned to my senator, Senator Mikulski, in a letter detailing his plight as a Holocaust survivor and asking for her advice.

Women still just earn 78 cents for every dollar our male counterpart makes.

It was the goal of Senator Kennedy, when he established these working groups, to make sure there was quality.

I don't think you want to tag it to, in any way, payment.

We are going to be doing things late at night and when we do things late at night, it is not that we want to pull fast ones.

Well, and we wouldn't because it is not tied to a payment system.

We appreciate the continued leadership of committee members Senators Kennedy, Brown, Hatch, Enzi, and Bingaman on this issue.

We are on new territory because this will be the first time we are trying to move from volume medicine to value medicine.

We applaud Senators Brown, Collins, Schumer, and Vitter for their leadership in sponsoring this critical legislation.

We don't want them to go to Iran.

It kind of followed on to what we talked about last night and drew the distinction between best practices which the academies often identify in a much broader scope.

But it has been wimpy.

First of all, I just want to thank you all for being here, and I also want to thank you for what you do every day.

It is like everybody talks about it but nobody does it.

We need to focus on academic curriculum.

If we could expand the capacity of our schools of nursing, it would be a major step in increasing the nursing workforce.