Barbara Mikulski

Senator Garn brought a measure of great civility and an enormous knowledge, and I feel that I was able to launch my career in trying to help the American Space Program because of the excellent guidance and tutelage, those two space…

What is in the President's request for the NASA educational efforts?

What would be useful to us in the debate is to know what we can continue to contribute for our colleagues, so that decisions, recommendations, policy initiatives and policy flashing lights would come from our science.

We've got to get back to this, because we believe that in order to maintain U.S. leadership in aeronautics, we need to make those public investments.

We believe science should speak for itself, and that the facts of science should speak for itself.

We believe science at NASA saves lives, saves the planet, and creates jobs for the future.

I really want to pay tribute to both Senator Glenn... he was a learned counselor and adviser to help me really understand the breadth and depth of the American Space Program.

We're concerned that NASA is flat-lined after 2010.

Good morning, and welcome to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science.

So we have got a lot to do together, and we want to work with you to recapitalize and rebuild the Department of Justice so we can render justice in our country and have our national honor restored abroad.

Let me say why I'm raising this.

So somebody trying to rebuild Afghanistan makes less than somebody working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), trying to rebuild the cities of America, both serving America with duty and dedication?

If we are for Lilly Ledbetter, we're also going to be for the wonderful people who work at the State Department.

I look forward to working with you, and the people who will be confirmed.

I think President Obama has made a great choice, and we enthusiastically support him, and hope you do, as well.

He has my full support, because John will bring vision, new ideas, and actually juice to the excellent Transportation team President Obama is assembling.

But it is a sad day for Maryland if we--as we lose him to be our Secretary of Transportation.

I come today to join with my colleague, Senator Ben Cardin, to strongly recommend John Porcari to be Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

So we have got a lot to do together, and we want to work with you to recapitalize and rebuild the Department of Justice so we can render justice in our country and have our national honor restored abroad.

I am very proud of the kind of task forces that are being used in Maryland right now.

Each administration has been rather tepid, timid and uneven in dealing with demand.

On June 4, we are going to hold our hearing on the FBI budget request, and the committee will do something different this year.

We see that the President has asked for more cops on the beat.

Can I have your assurances that nothing would be done in States and local communities without consultation with us and also consultation with Governors?

The cost and expense, particularly with them being off the coast of Cuba and our coast, require a great deal of expenditure just to maintain the security and the classification.