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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
Barbara Mikulski
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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
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Baltimore
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Barbara Ann Mikulski
Barbara A. Mikulski
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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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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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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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America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
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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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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
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One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.
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George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.
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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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What I like best in Baltimore is the people, the neighborhoods and what goes on in the neighborhoods. Each has its own stories, own diners and own quirks. It's about community. I also like everything Old Bay.
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I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
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We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
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A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
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I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.
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There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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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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There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.
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