Honorable Barbara Mikulski
United States Senator, Maryland, Democrat
Senator Mikulski was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986. She served on the Baltimore City Council from 1971 to 1976 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1976 to 1986. She chairs the Appropriations Committee and is a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the November 18, 2014, Senate floor debate on S. 2280, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. I am a blue-collar Senator. I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood in Baltimore during World War II where my father had a small…
