Barbara Mikulski

HAGERSTOWN, Md.—U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski says she's seeking $43 million in federal funds to keep a spy plane production line running in Hagerstown. Mikulski said Tuesday that the appropriation would prevent a shutdown of Sierra Nevada Corp ...  

U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski says she's seeking $43 million in federal funds to keep a spy plane plant open in Hagerstown.  

WASHINGTON, DC--(ENEWSPF)--May 22, 2012. The United States Senate Appropriations Committee today approved language originally introduced by Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) to modernize the existing Visa Waiver Program (VWP ...  

One of the world's largest astronomy archives, containing a treasure trove of information about myriad stars, planets, and galaxies, has been named in honor of the United States Senator from Maryland, Barbara Mikulski. Called MAST, for the Barbara A.  

WASHINGTON - Senator Barbara Mikulski has reached a major milestone. She is the longest serving Congresswoman in U.S. history. Mikulski broke the record on Saturday, by representing Maryland on Capitol Hill for more than 35 years. Former FOX 5 ...  

Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski has set a lot of records, ●In 1986, she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate who didn’t have her husband or father serve before her. ●In 2011, she became the longest-serving woman in Senate history. Read full article >>  

Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) planned the classified discussion, and all senators were invited. Mikulski told The Hill that the meeting was postponed because of markup sessions.  

WASHINGTON - One by one, Republicans and Democrats recognized a singular achievement by a singular woman - Senator Barbara Mikulski, now the longest-serving female member of Congress. The Maryland Democrat reached that milestone Saturday.  

SALISBURY -- On Thursday morning, U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Wor-Wic Community College President Ray Hoy were able to see and speak with college students at the University of Maryland College Park while sitting inside one of Wor-Wic's classrooms.  

But Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations ... Mikulski’s frustration is no doubt real, as is that of Scott Brown, John Kerry, and other New England lawmakers. Mikulski’s machinations are yet another ...  

Recording-breaking politician. Some of the nation's top political leaders paid special tribute to Sen. Barbara Mikulski.  

Though she stand at just 4′ 11″, Sen. Barbara Mikulski packs a lot of “punch.” Wednesday on the Senate floor, the tribute to “Barb” went on for more than three hours. Thirty-plus senators delivered back-to-back speeches for the Democrat from Maryland. On  Saturday, Mikulski became Congress’...  

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) became the longest-serving woman in Congress on Saturday, but her colleagues waited until Wednesday to mark the milestone. Seated two rows behind the Senate majority leader’s post, Mikulski listened Wednesday ...  

Mikulski became the longest-serving female senator in 2011, when she surpassed Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, who was in office from 1949 to 1973. On Saturday, she passed Edith Nourse Rogers’ record as longest-serving female ...  

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) became the longest-serving woman in Congress on Saturday, but her colleagues waited until Wednesday to mark the milestone. Mikulski, 75, holds several records, as the first woman senator from Maryland, the first woman Democrat to serve in both the House and Senate, the longest-serving woman in the Senate and, as Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) noted, the first elected to ...  

WASHINGTON — Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., is calling on Rep. Andy Harris, R-1st-Md., to urge the House of Representatives to pass the postal reform bill that will save the Easton mail processing center. The legislation is expected to reform ...  

Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, or the Vehicle Assembly Building after Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. Mark R. Whittington is the author of Children of Apollo and The Last Moonwalker. He has written on space subjects for a variety of periodicals, including The ...  

Sarah Palin on Today vs Katie Couric on GMA: Are They Objectified? (Norma Kamali, 4/04/12, Daily Beast)Sarah Palin may not totally represent my beliefs, but she represents a case study of empowerment and objectification to the nth degree. Someone in your office may bring objectification to themselves by simply wearing a low-cut dress. She then may suffer the consequence of being known as the "easy" one with absolutely no proof exhibited. Sarah...  

On St. Patrick’s Day, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, 75, became the longest-serving woman in Congress, clocking 35 years in the Senate and House as the not-so-gentle-lady from Maryland.    Since arriving on Capitol Hill in January 1977, the onetime social worker and outspoken liberal Democrat from blue-collar Baltimore has championed the rights of women, children, seniors, veterans, federal workers and the disadvantaged. Read full article...  

now the longest-serving woman in Congress – and they all had their own memory to share. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) recalled doing aerobics in a cramped House gym, where Mikulski cracked up her fellow females during the twists and stretches.  

Wednesday on the Senate floor, the tribute to “Barb” went on for more than three hours. Thirty-plus senators delivered back-to-back speeches for the Democrat from Maryland. On  Saturday, Mikulski became Congress’ longest serving woman ...  

On St. Patrick’s Day, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, 75, became the longest-serving woman in Congress, clocking 35 years in the Senate and House as the not-so-gentle-lady from Maryland. Since arriving on Capitol Hill in January 1977, the onetime social worker and outspoken liberal Democrat from blue-collar Baltimore has championed the rights of women, children, seniors, veterans, federal workers and ...  

Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin say they received Monday from Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe that the Easton center would remain open. “This is a great victory for Maryland communities that rely on the post office for on-time delivery of ...  

What do you get the senator who has been one of the biggest supporters for space-based astronomy? How about an exploding star! The AP reports that a supernova will be named after Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) at a ceremony Thursday in Baltimore to inaugurate a new archive facility at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The [...]  

Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin say they received Monday from Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe that the Easton center would remain open. “This is a great victory for Maryland communities that rely on the post office for on-time delivery of ...  

Sen. Barbara Mikulski testifies before a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 27.  

EASTON, Md. - Talk of the Easton processing facility leaving the Eastern Shore is heating up again. Senator Barbara Mikulski wants a legitimate study completed on the issue. Sen. Mikulski says she objects to this legislation, while the U.S. Postal Service ...  

Sen. Barbara Mikulski formally threatened to filibuster a bill to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service because of concerns she has about the proposed closing of Easton's mail processing center, the Maryland Democrat's office said Thursday.  

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) has become the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress. When Mikulski was elected to the Senate in 1986, there was only one other woman. There now are 17. Mikulski has long been an advocate on women's health issues, writing the law requiring federal standards for mammograms and fighting for uninsured women to get screenings for breast and cervical cancers, CBS Baltimore reports. She surpasses the record...  

over 80 miles away to Wilmington, De. U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin are trying to prevent that from happening. Sen. Mikulski introduced an amendment to keep the plant from closing. Sen. Cardin followed that up by adding an amendment that ...  

ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski is known for her outspoken support of space exploration. On Thursday, she will have a supernova named after her at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Supernova Mikulski is a ...  

WASHINGTON – Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., will be feted Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol for achieving a historic milestone as the longest-serving woman in congressional history. Mikulski, 75, has had a career defined by firsts. She was elected ...  

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski was honored by fellow Senate members for being the longest-serving woman in Congress. For several hours Wednesday, senators from both parties spoke to pay tribute to Mikulski, D-Md.  

WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion Thursday to hold a key vote next week on postal reform legislation shortly after Sen. Barbara Mikulski announced she had placed a hold on the bill.  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One by one, Republicans and Democrats recognized a singular achievement by a singular woman - Sen. Barbara Mikulski, now the longest-serving female member of Congress....  

WASHINGTON -- One by one, Republicans and Democrats recognized a singular achievement by a singular woman -- Sen. Barbara Mikulski, now the longest-serving female member of Congress.  

Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland stands barely as tall as the podium, but in becoming the nation’s longest-serving woman in Congress, she is a towering political figure. One after another Wednesday, senators paid tribute to the Democrat who, after 35 ...  

WASHINGTON — One by one, Republicans and Democrats recognized a singular achievement by a singular woman — Sen. Barbara Mikulski, now the longest-serving female member of Congress. The Maryland Democrat reached that milestone this past Saturday.  

Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland stands barely as tall as the podium, but in becoming the nation’s longest-serving woman in Congress, she is a towering political figure. One after another Wednesday, senators paid tribute to the Democrat who ...  

In 1986, with then-Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski running for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by retiring Senator Charles Mathias, Cardin ran for Mikulski ... of the House of Delegates at 95 years of age, Meyer Cardin, Jon’s grandfather and Ben’s ...  

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski is now the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress.  

She stands 4'11" (1.5 meters) and had trouble being seen over the microphones when elected. Thirty-five years later, Barbara Mikulski is a towering figure in the Senate, the longest-serving female lawmaker in the US Congress.  

Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., was honored at length on the Senate ... In 2011, she passed former Maine GOP senator Margaret Chase Smith as the longest-serving woman in Senate history and, on Saturday, she became the longest-serving woman in Congress ...  

Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, and Rep. Andy Harris. Ask Cardin and Mikulski to support the Respect for Right of Conscience Act, Senate bill 1467, and Harris, House bill 1179. The Respect for Right of Conscience Act does not forbid ...  

In a rare intra-delegation, across-the-aisle nudge, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski on Tuesday called on the state's two Republican lawmakers in Washington to support a Senate version of an overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service that would save a pair of mail sorting facilities that just happen to be located in the lawmakers' districts.  

So, fresh off the “Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes,” the Maryland senator (in charge of NASA’s budget) has a supernova named after her. The name was given by researchers at the Space Science Telescope Institute at Johns Hopkins, whose funding comes from contracts with NASA, whose funding is overseen by . . . Senator Mikulski! I’m all for spending money on space research; there are at least ten cabinet departments I’d abolish...  

Six things you need to know right now about the election and campaign news of 2012! U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) hit a major milestone this week. On Wednesday, she became the longest serving woman in Congress in history. 75-year-old Mikulski ...  

Apr 18, 2012 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman on the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced the fiscal ...  

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski (both D-MD) today joined a bipartisan group of 41 Senators in calling on the United States Postal Service (USPS) to extend the current moratorium on the closing of post offices or ...  

BALTIMORE, April 5 (UPI) -- One of the world's largest astronomy archives has been named in honor of U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, the Space Telescope Science Institute said.  

"The Senate used to be a very lonely place for women, but Senator Mikulski changed that," Sen. Barbara Boxer of California said. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts recalled how Mikulski fumed when she learned a medical study would include only ...  

When Senator Barbara A. Mikulski was sworn into the Senate in 1987, there was no “dean of women” to mentor female lawmakers. One of two women in the Senate at the time, Ms. Mikulski wasn’t even allowed in the Senate gym, Senator Mitch ...  

The Senate honored Senator Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland as the longest-serving woman in Congressional history.  

The Senate honored Senator Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland as the longest-serving woman in Congressional history.