Barbara Mikulski

Democrat Barbara Mikulski has represented Maryland in the Senate since 1987 and previously served for 10 years in the U.S. House.

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Women's History Month: A Brief History of the Celebration of Female Contributions

By Torie Bosch

As Black History Month comes to a close, Women's History Month begins. Women's History Month is a relatively new invention, dating back to the 1970s, when women were fighting for greater recognition ...

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Majority Leader Harry Reid Among 'Most Liberal' Senators

By Politics Daily Staff

New rankings of the Senate's most liberal members -- a list including Harry Reid and powerful committee chairmen Carl Levin and Patrick Leahy -- suggest moderates are fading from the scene on Capitol ...

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Republican John Boehner Elected House Speaker

By not in system

WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Boehner was elected speaker of the House, sealing newfound Republican power-sharing in Congress and drawing the curtain on the history-making Nancy Pelosi era at the ...

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Opinion: NASA Goes Badly Off Course

By Rand Simberg

(Nov. 18) -- Last week, a panel of experts assembled at the request of Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., issued a report on cost and schedule problems with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the ...

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Is Eric Wargotz Married?

By Clark Hansen

Eric Wargotz, M.D., the tea party-courting Republican candidate for senator from Maryland, is running against incumbent U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski. As part of a Politics Daily series providing ...

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May 26, 2012

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Economic Messaging

Source: The Huffington Post

We're going to open with what we'll call "Constitutional Tomfoolery, Part One" (you'll note that this implies, through a technique known as "foreshadowing," that the Republicans have exhibited some sheer silliness in reference to our country's founding governmental compact more than once in the past week).

May 24, 2012

Collins to slam Secret Service, Massie/Cotton win GOP nods in Ky., Ark., LeMieux's bare-knuckle politics, Hochul bucks Dems, Liljenquist uses Hatch's '76 playbook, Ryan at Reagan Library

Source: Politico

Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is none too pleased with the Secret Service.

May 24, 2012

WATCHDOGS: Senate Dems' pay gap on women

Source: The Weekly Standard - Washington DC

A group of five Senate Democrats convened a news conference earlier this week to demand passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act. So WFB did a little research and discovered that the five might want to take a look at the pay gap on their own staffs.

May 23, 2012

Senate Dems Push Pay Fairness Three Years After Obama Declared Victory

Source: The Weekly Standard - Washington DC

Maryland senator Barbara Mikulski just announced that Democrats will be bringing up a pay equity bill after Memorial Day, sometime in June. The thing is, Congress already passed pay equity legislation, and President Obama signed that bill into law--the Lilly Ledbetter Act--in January 2009.

May 23, 2012

North Korean Defector Ma Young-Ae to Perform at Senate Event

Source: Washington City Paper - Washington DC

Our favorite North Korean defector-turned-sausage merchant Ma Young-Ae is back in the news.