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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
Barbara Mikulski
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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
Politician
Social Worker
United States Senator
University Teacher
Baltimore
Maryland
Barbara Ann Mikulski
Barbara A. Mikulski
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Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.
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I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country
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America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq
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My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
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Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
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Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.
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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
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I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
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