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 April 8, 2014, Senate floor debate on S. 2199, the Paycheck Fairness Act. I rise today to speak on paycheck fairness, the bill we will be voting on tomorrow in the Senate. During the next hour, 11 Democratic women…
