Mikulski to Lead Senate Appropriations Committee

[bmore_ken]

Anybody have a few (no spin) bullet points of her major accomplishments?

She was the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right.

It was a late 1960s fight to stop a proposed highway from tearing up the historic Fells Point neighborhood in Baltimore that whetted Mikulski's political appetite.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/...ate/index.html

She fought hard for passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a bill to guarantee equal payment for women. And she championed Rosa’s Law, a citizen advocacy measure that banned the use of the term “mentally retarded.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...or-in-history/

She has fought for access to higher education for every child because she believes ours is a nation where every young boy and girl should have the chance to reach his or her true potential. She has fought for secure pensions for seniors because she believes ours is a nation where, after a lifetime of work, every person should have the chance to enjoy their retirement. And she has fought for preventive screening and treatment for every woman because she believes ours is a nation where no one should lose a mother, daughter or wife from a preventable illness.

As Chairwoman of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Mikulski has led the charge to promote economic development, equip our first responders, and invest in science and research. Senator Mikulski understands the importance of the private sector, particularly small businesses, in creating job opportunities. That is why she has fought for legislation making it easier for businesses to make investments and hire new workers.

http://www.levin.senate.gov/newsroom...ction=speeches

This stuff really isn't that hard to find

[Just Pondering]

She was the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right.

It was a late 1960s fight to stop a proposed highway from tearing up the historic Fells Point neighborhood in Baltimore that whetted Mikulski's political appetite.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/...ate/index.html

She fought hard for passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a bill to guarantee equal payment for women. And she championed Rosa’s Law, a citizen advocacy measure that banned the use of the term “mentally retarded.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...or-in-history/

She has fought for access to higher education for every child because she believes ours is a nation where every young boy and girl should have the chance to reach his or her true potential. She has fought for secure pensions for seniors because she believes ours is a nation where, after a lifetime of work, every person should have the chance to enjoy their retirement. And she has fought for preventive screening and treatment for every woman because she believes ours is a nation where no one should lose a mother, daughter or wife from a preventable illness.

As Chairwoman of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Mikulski has led the charge to promote economic development, equip our first responders, and invest in science and research. Senator Mikulski understands the importance of the private sector, particularly small businesses, in creating job opportunities. That is why she has fought for legislation making it easier for businesses to make investments and hire new workers.

http://www.levin.senate.gov/newsroom...ction=speeches

This stuff really isn't that hard to find

Thanks for the research. It's hard sometimes to distinguish between what politicians say they're doing (talk is cheap) versus what they actually accomplish. We need performance-based representatives that produce results deemed worthy by those who elected them.

[Bloomin Onion]

Bmore Ken of course you like her you are a federal worker.

Government employment is a zero sum economic game. Tax hikes don't affect you because your salary will just go up or your benefits will get even comfier compared to Americans who do real work. Yes you spent your paycheck on goods and services....but that just goes back into taxes and that is used to pay you back. You and everyone you work with contribute nothing to the American economy, neither do any state or county employee.

I wish we had someone like Scott Walker in Maryland.

[Bloomin Onion]

That fat sow is the perfect example of the need for term limits. Even in the beginning her liberalism has affected us negatively. She is the one who led the freeway revolts that prevented the competion of Interstates 70 and 83 in Baltimore. 70 was supposed to interchange with 83 downtown, and 83 was supposed to meet 95. That would have given us a much better transportation network comparable to other cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Charlotte that didn't have to deal with this rabble rousing (Washington DC also dealt with similar things when black racists made it a racial issue and prevented 95 from going trhu the District>)

Mikulski also oncce responded to my email where she defended illegal immigration and lectured me on how illegal aliens are important to our state's economy such as fishing and crabbing and seafood processing! People like here support illegal immigration and the federal Dream Act which must be defeated, especially as gay marriage and Obama's reelection brought forth a tide of liberalism and black nationalism and ethnic racism that also helped illegal immigration win at the polls.

[DaggerJohn]

It's great for Senator Mikulski.

It's great for Maryland and the nation.

And it's especially great for those of us who like to laugh at those who are reduced to whining and complaining about our democratic republic form of government when they do not like the election results.

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Somehow I keep forgetting that you are a self-proclaimed Republican. I wonder why.

[octoburn]

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Somehow I keep forgetting that you are a self-proclaimed Republican. I wonder why.

It's probably because I think that automatically voting for the "(R)" after a candidate's name is just as dumb as automatically voting for someone because of the "(D)" after that candidate's name.

But you do have a point. The Republican Party ~ especially here in Maryland ~ has become the irrelevant party and accomplishes as much as a pack of barking dogs. And the intra~party in~fighting as typified on Red Maryland is a constant reminder that the party of those Maryland Republicans like like Senator Charles Mathias, Jr. no longer exists.

[DaggerJohn]

It's probably because I think that automatically voting for the "(R)" after a candidate's name is just as dumb as automatically voting for someone because of the "(D)" after that candidate's name.

But you do have a point. The Republican Party ~ especially here in Maryland ~ has become the irrelevant party and accomplishes as much as a pack of barking dogs. And the intra~party in~fighting as typified on Red Maryland is a constant reminder that the party of those Maryland Republicans like like Senator Charles Mathias, Jr. no longer exists.

Hmm. Your enthusiasm for Mikulski is a little over the top, Octo. That's what I was noting.

[bmore_ken]

Bmore Ken of course you like her you are a federal worker.

Government employment is a zero sum economic game. Tax hikes don't affect you because your salary will just go up or your benefits will get even comfier compared to Americans who do real work. Yes you spent your paycheck on goods and services....but that just goes back into taxes and that is used to pay you back. You and everyone you work with contribute nothing to the American economy, neither do any state or county employee.

I wish we had someone like Scott Walker in Maryland.

Yawnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!