Barbara Mikulski

They met for dinner at Haussner's.He wanted to thank her for helping Joe Tydings' U.S. Senate campaign in Southeast Baltimore. She had other things on her mind -- like running for City Council.Al Figinski told his Polish cousin what she would need to beat the political machines -- 12,000 votes, "a total commitment" and the gumption to ask the organizations for their support. "Not because she would get it," Mr. Figinski said of his distant relative, "but so she would have a ready answer, when she walked the streets, as to why she wasn't on the ticket."

In his article on Sen. Barbara Mikulski and how her assignment as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee has helped her campaign fundraising, reporter John Fritze wrote that "For Mikulski ... the windfall underscores her transition from a lawmaker who has typically engaged more on local issues to someone who now chairs a committee that wields tremendous power on the national level. Mikulski benefited from a number of first-time donations from political action committees, including an association that represents assisted living facilities, one of the nation's largest energy companies and a leading supplier of cement.

WASHINGTON - New York's senators have their limits. They will keep a bet, even read in verse, but they don't do bird imitations. New York Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer made good on their Super Bowl wager with Maryland's senators yesterday afternoon, reciting the 108-line Edgar Allan Poe poem "The Raven" to mark Baltimore's triumph over the Giants. But while an excited Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski punctuated their performance by repeatedly attempting flight - whipping her arms and bobbing up and down like a raven - Clinton and Schumer stuck to the script and remained decidedly earth-bound.

It almost makes you laugh. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger says that the situation at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Baltimore "is and has been unacceptable for years" ("Officials demand answers from VA," Jan 29). Well, if it has been that way, then where has he, and U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin been? They claim to be so concerned but have apparently paid little interest In the complaints by the veterans. The situation could be fixed by firing everyone in that office and replacing them with serious, concerned individuals who obviously care about our vets.

1987: Amtrak rail crash in Chase kills 161990: Maryland population 4.7 million1992: Barbara Mikulski becomes U.S. senator

"Capitol Offense" by Barbara Mikulski and Marylouise Oates. I find it to be very intriguing; you can really picture the senator (Mikulski) as Norie (the book's main character).I'm a big Oscar Wilde fan. I've just finished "Oscar Wilde's Guide to Modern Living," edited by John Calvin Batchelor and Craig McNeer. It's got a whole bunch of fun quotes and things - it's really a lot of fun.Kathy Hornig, director of special projects for the Baltimore Office of Promotions and Catonsville resident, is organizing next weekend's city book festival on Mount Vernon PlacePub Date: 9/22/96

Doves in war, hawks in peace. That's one way to describe Maryland's two senators, Barbara Mikulski and Paul Sarbanes. Along with most members of their party, they voted dovishly to deny President Bush the authority to use armed force against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Then, after the war was won, they showed how hawkish they could be by voting to cut off aid to King Hussein's Jordan as punishment for its support of the Iraqi cause.In both instances, these Democratic senators were seeking to thwart and constrict a Republican president.

William H. Krehnbrink, a 44-year-old diesel truck mechanic from Baltimore County, has filed for the U.S. Senate seat now occupied by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat.The Republican said he has entered the race because "we have allowed some terrible things to occur, and changes need to be made."Some areas Krehnbrink wants to focus on are education as a means of fighting poverty and the possible elimination of the Department of Probation and Parole."We find criminals, try and convict them and put them in jail, only to release them on parole so that they can commit new crimes while being 'supervised,' " he said.

It almost makes you laugh. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger says that the situation at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Baltimore "is and has been unacceptable for years" ("Officials demand answers from VA," Jan 29). Well, if it has been that way, then where has he, and U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin been? They claim to be so concerned but have apparently paid little interest In the complaints by the veterans. The situation could be fixed by firing everyone in that office and replacing them with serious, concerned individuals who obviously care about our vets.

WASHINGTON -- Alan L. Keyes, a conservative Republican who lost to Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes, D-Md., three years ago, will now try to oust the state's other Democratic senator, Barbara A. Mikulski.Mr. Keyes, 41, a former United Nations official who heads TC non-profit group that monitors government spending, has filed his candidacy papers for the 1992 race and has scheduled a campaign kickoff for next Wednesday in Towson.Mr. Keyes said the public's dissatisfaction with Congress can change only through electing "better senators" who will stop the federal "spending spree."

Maryland's senior lawmaker, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, said Monday the National Rifle Association must come to the table to discuss the tighter gun controls, as she works with President Barack Obama and her colleagues in Congress in the wake of the deadly Connecticut school shooting. Mikulski joined Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori in sounding off about the mass shooting that killed 20 children and six educators last week. Their comments came at a dedication for the AmeriCorps Atlantic Region Campus.

The dean of Maryland's congressional delegation, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, endorsed Rep. Donna Edwards for reelection on Thursday, the first high-profile endorsement in a primary race that, so far, has mostly taken place behind the scenes. "She is part of the new generation of women in Congress who are coming into their own in a new way for a new day -- claiming their power to empower others," Mikulski said of her fellow Democrat in a statement released by the Edwards campaign.

— Like other Democrats in Congress, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski is battling Republican budget cuts and working to bring home federal money for her state. But as the 2012 election nears, Maryland's senior senator is also playing a role in national politics: helping to elect more women to Congress. As the longest-serving woman in the chamber's history, the self-styled Dean of the Senate Women is poised to become a powerful messenger and fundraiser for female Democratic senators running for re-election across the country next year.

More resources in the classroom and less pressure on teachers were among the priorities Baltimore education leaders identified Monday as primary concerns about the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, a highly anticipated task as the federal government looks to revise national education standards. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat who was recently appointed to head a critical congressional subcommittee in the reauthorization of the federal program this summer, visited Lockerman-Bundy Elementary School as part of a series of roundtable discussions with school communities across the state to find out how No Child Left Behind has affected student achievement.

Two Republicans claiming tea party credentials have emerged as front-runners among 11 candidates hoping to dethrone Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski in November. Eric Wargotz, a Queen Anne's County commissioner and physician, says he's the candidate to beat among Republicans after a Rasmussen Poll showed a 25 percentage-point gap between Wargotz and Mikulski in July shrank to 16 points among likely Maryland voters in August. "That's significant," Wargotz said of the poll, which shows Mikulski with a 55-39 percent lead.

As county Republicans gear up to try to capitalize on voter unrest, Howard County's Democrats are rallying to battle back. A rare county gathering of both Maryland senators along with the two congressmen who represent the county made that fighting tone abundantly clear last week at an annual county Democratic Party fundraiser at the grand Ellicott City home of Irfan and Erum Malik. Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and state party Chairwoman Susan Turnbull also attended, along with a clutch of local elected officials.

In his article on Sen. Barbara Mikulski and how her assignment as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee has helped her campaign fundraising, reporter John Fritze wrote that "For Mikulski ... the windfall underscores her transition from a lawmaker who has typically engaged more on local issues to someone who now chairs a committee that wields tremendous power on the national level. Mikulski benefited from a number of first-time donations from political action committees, including an association that represents assisted living facilities, one of the nation's largest energy companies and a leading supplier of cement.

The dean of Maryland's congressional delegation, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, endorsed Rep. Donna Edwards for reelection on Thursday, the first high-profile endorsement in a primary race that, so far, has mostly taken place behind the scenes. "She is part of the new generation of women in Congress who are coming into their own in a new way for a new day -- claiming their power to empower others," Mikulski said of her fellow Democrat in a statement released by the Edwards campaign.

S tanding in the expansive basement family room of a Fulton mansion, Dr. Eric S. Wargotz explained why he thinks 2010 will be so kind to Republicans that he's got a chance to replace four- term U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, arguably Maryland's most popular Democrat. "I'm running because I believe I can do it," said Wargotz, 53, a first-term Queen Anne's County commissioner. "I see an opening here. Look at Scott Brown," he said, referring to the once-obscure Massachusetts Republican state senator catapulted to national celebrity by winning a special election for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat.

Nobody asked me, but I think it's pathetic that Bobby Prigel's well-to-do neighbors and their lawyer in the Long Green Valley persist in trying to keep him from opening an organic creamery on his farm because they think the barn-like building will spoil their view. What a waste of time and money - and bad feelings for no good reason. Prigel has a great idea - a local, fourth-generation family farmer doing local farming, and in an organic, earth-friendly way - and he ought to be supported.