ENG: Barbara Ann Mikulski (born July 20, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. Mikulski, the first woman elected to the Senate from Maryland, is the longest-serving female senator and the second longest-serving female member in the history of the United States Congress (only after Edith Nourse Rogers). If she stays in office until March 17, 2012, she will become the longest-serving female member in the history of the United States Congress. Mikulski is chairwoman of the Health Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging and Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, and is a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence. Mikulski is the longest serving present Senator who has never been the chairperson ...
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski said Monday the planned extension of Yale Drive through Mount Aetna Farms in Washington County will become a “golden mile” for future job opportunities in health care and biotechnology.“This is a mile, but that mile will make the difference in how we can literally have kind of an intercollege connector between the Hagerstown Community College and Meritus Medical Center,” Mikulski said. “What does this mean? Jobs, jobs, jobs.”
Mikulski, D-Md., made the remarks during a visit to Hagerstown Community College as part of a statewide ...
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From the office of U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski:
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) today urged her colleagues to come together to prevent a catastrophic default and downgrade of U.S. debt that would force sky-high interest rates on American families.
“We are less than one week away from reaching our debt limit. If we fail and we falter, the United States of America will be irrevocably fractured,” Senator Mikulski said in a statement on the Senate floor, “We’re destroying ourselves by a self-inflicted wound because of political dysfunction, political rigidity, and ...
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From the office of U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski:
U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) voted against a short-term extension of the debt ceiling proposed by House Republicans saying it would put the United States back on the edge of economic disaster five to six months from now.
“A short-term extension of the debt ceiling isn’t a solution at all,” Senator Mikulski said. “It puts us right back into the same situation in a few months. It doesn’t provide any certainty to the market or to the American people.”
Senator Mikulski joined the Senate in voting ...
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