Barbara Mikulski

Are we going to mandate medicine, which I don't believe Congress or any arm of it should, or any part of our government.

Where HOPE VI has been most successful, it has transformed communities and transformed the lives of people living in public housing.

What are your plans to make sure that the goals of HOPE VI are accomplished and that revitalizing the country's most distressed public housing continues to be a top priority for HUD?

We want to support the effort to modernize Quantico.

You can always get a new gun, but you can't go back and redo technology.

Now I want to go to the next one, which I found really surprising here.

We've got to protect the American people by making sure the FBI has the right tools, and that's technology.

It reduced our ability to surge resources within our Criminal Branch and meet existing and emerging threats.

We can't bring talented, smart people that you're recruiting with all kinds of backgrounds and bring them into a dated facility.

When will SENTINEL be done? I mean, when will you have completed it?

But it's a strain on the FBI to do this?

The Census Bureau will hire 1.5 million workers.

The census needs to be done on time and it's had significant technological failure and will need to be more manpower intensive.

Chairwoman Mikulski, I would like to conclude by thanking you and this Committee for your service and your support.

Well, I think that's fantastic.

The American people count on the FBI to protect them from those people that have predatory intent against them.

You've touched our hearts, and you've also made history.

That's what Hubble and the other science, basic science that we do in this great country is all about.

But when you look at the importance of what we do, things like Hubble, the International Space Station, our exploration program, our climate observing, observing the Earth, the dynamic Earth, all of these things are so very important to…

Well, listen, Space Shuttle Atlantis, we're having a hard time hearing you.

Hello to all of our astronauts on Space Shuttle Atlantis. You are taking part in something quite historical, not only have you given the Hubble a new life, but you're going to give the Senate a new lease on life.

Hubble is the people's telescope, and it wanted to have another chance to be able to educate a new generation of scientists and school children.

Let's go where no Senate's gone before, and get this job done.

Well, guys--first of all, thank you. It's really exciting to hear you. And we really, again, want to salute your daring and your bravery and your courage.

This is the way we ought to be at the table, I might add, authorizers and appropriators, not only celebrating, but really working together for the good of the country.