Senate Proceeding on Oct 7th, 2009 :: 1:24:05 to 1:39:35
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Barbara Mikulski: quorum call: ms. mikulski: mr. chairman? the presiding se ms. mikulski: i ask the quorum call be the clerk: calendar number 87, h.r. 2847, an act making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice

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Speech By: Barbara Mikulski

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Barbara Mikulski: agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2010, and for other purposes. ms. kulski: well, mr. president, i'm very pleased to be joined today by distinguished colleague from alabama, senator richard and we wish to present the commerce-justice bill, the appropriions bill to the senate.

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Barbara Mikulski: what i'd like to say to my colleagues is that as this, everyone should know that this bill is a product bipartisan cooperation. at times senate through the lens of the media, you would think that everything we do here prickly and very partisan.

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Barbara Mikulski: well, that's not true, commerce-justice-science appropriations. senator shelby and i have worked together on this bill. yes, i do chair it, but it has been with maximum with others on the other the aisle. and it was the same way when senator shelby chaired this committee. so w united states senate -- to the

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Barbara Mikulski: united states senate year departments of commerce, justice, and air science agencies i do want to thank majority leader reid and minority leader mcconnell for allowing us to bring this c.j.s. bill to the floor. the c.j.s. bill is the product of cooperation between sophomore

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Barbara Mikulski: shelby and i and our excellent aff. we've worked hand in hand. i'm going inouye and ranking member cochran for their allocation. we were able to write good bill, but the stringent budget environment required the subcommittee to make difficult decisions.

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Barbara Mikulski: the c.j.s. bill totals $6.49 billion in d spending, consistent with the subcommittee's 302-b allocation. so any amendments to the bill would need to be offset. now, the purpose of the c.j bill is to fund of commerce and its bureaus and its administration. manyeople don't know what the department of commerce truly

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Barbara Mikulski: does. it's an array of complex agencies that are important to our ecomy. industry and licenses for exports, the economic development administration, creating economic growth in our communities, particularly mid sized to small the census bureau, preparing

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Barbara Mikulski: now, 2010 census. and which protects our property along with the international trade administration which enforces our trade laws. we're particularly proud in the commerce department of the national institu standards and technology. technology which allows our

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Barbara Mikulski: country and able to compete in the global marketplace. this subcommittee also funds the department of justice which seeps from violent crime and terrorism. it kind -- white-c

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Barbara Mikulski: blue-collar, or no collar. it also has a vigorous approach to the despicable practice being a sexual this subcommittee also through the department of justice funds our departments. which are so important. as well as n only from the enforcement end, but the

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Barbara Mikulski: prosecution end through the u.s. attorney's nasa is also committee. it explores our planets and our universe and it inspires our nation and our next to be scientists and engineers. we also fund the national

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Barbara Mikulski: oceanic and atmospheric administration, protecting our marine resources and the jobs that depend on it also protects our weather to save lives. many people don't realize that the wonderful weather reports they get in their communiti comes weather administration. that's -- they think it comes from the weath we all love the weather channel,

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Barbara Mikulski: but the weather channel depends on noaa. the national science foundation is also funded. the basic research at our universities t and support teacher traing and we also fund several independent commissions and agencies, including the commission on civil rights,

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Barbara Mikulski: legal service commission, the international trade commission, the united representative. our pority, senator shelby's and mine, have been number one priority, making sure that 300 million americans who work hard and play by the rules are safe from terrorism and violent crime. we also wan

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Barbara Mikulski: our country so we investors in innovation education and through promoting an innovation friendly government. making strategic investments in research anddu science and technology, keeping america number one in -- number

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Barbara Mikulski: one in science and also number one in the space exploration program. we want to create jobs in america that will stay america. however, we, too, are fiscal stewards of the public purse, and therefore accountabity has been a hallmark of our

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Barbara Mikulski: bipartisan relationship. we do stand sentry against wa st stewardship of hard-earned taxpayer dollars. i'd like to take minutes about keeping america safe.

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Barbara Mikulski: there we went above the president's request by $300 million because we wanted to make an extra effort to protect our homeland and protect this bill is one of the most important sources funds for state and local law enforcement.

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Barbara Mikulski: for our frontline men and women of our state and local police forces. it's the cops on the beat who protect our we all -- and at the same time they're asked t we're support that thin blue line to make sure that the police are safe with the

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Barbara Mikulski: they need by bullet-proof vests and also new technologies. c.s.i. is not show, but we think c.s.i. should be to use the best of science to catch the worst of the criminals. we also

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Barbara Mikulski: and this bill will provid ov an local police and local police operations to do t we're funding important programs in juvenile justice, very key programs in intervention, in mentoring, but also program efforts, $407 million.

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Barbara Mikulski: we also want to prevent, protect, and p comes to violence against women whether it's domestic violence, sexual stalking. over $845 million is pro we have enforcement.

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Barbara Mikulski: all of us know and love the f.b.i. this bill provides $7.9 billion to keep us safe from violent crime and also white crime investigating financial and mortgage fraud. i want to acknowledge the role of senator shelby as an authorizer in the banking committee and as a member of

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Barbara Mikulski: this who has taken the issue of be we have done that through the f.b.i. many people don't realize, though, that we've done -- that after 9/11, when clamoring for like an mi-5 like

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Barbara Mikulski: wh three cheers for the britishway, created an agency within the agency where at is our most significant fight against terrorism. we also funded drug enforcement agency to fight int narco terrorists over there and

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Barbara Mikulski: drug kingpins here. this bill do it. i'm very proud of the f.b.i because in the last few weeks they've led to the arrest of two terrorism suspects who planned to blow up buildings in texas and in illinois. and while they were working hard, d.e.a. led

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Barbara Mikulski: of kingpins who were kilograms of kilograms into new york city. we also have the bureau of alcohol and marshal service in which each one has been funded a at $1 billion plus. for our u.s. attorneys, who are the prosecutors of

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Barbara Mikulski: crimes, we've provided $1.9 billion, a significant increase. once we catch and cross cute thieves, there has to be federal prisons, and we want to make sure our communities are secure, but our prison this is one of the tattered areas of neglect in which we're very concerned about the safety of our prison guards. and th

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Barbara Mikulski: provides $6.1 billion to upgrade where necessary the protective devices to ensure criminals held securely acknowledging their rights. but i think the rights of those who guard them need to be kept too, and their first right is the right to security guaranteed by their own government. we look to protecting our

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Barbara Mikulski: ,chil when it comes to protecting our children, crimes have gotten more sophisticated in ter of the way now that the int and other things are lure and -- lure children terrible, terrible situations.

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Barbara Mikulski: we have provided funds of over over $265 million to deal with the issue of sexual predators. and we will continue that fight. so while we're busy fighting crime and protecting our children, we also need to pr and this is where science and innovation come in.

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Barbara Mikulski: we're in really keep america number one. this the national institutes of standards an technology. $125 million for manufacturing extension partnerships so that we can keep manufacturing in our country. we also want to do the basic

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Barbara Mikulski: research that are needed for new ideas that will come up with the new products for the new jobs. this bill provides $6.9 billion for the national science foundation. and for noaa, provide $4.7 including $980 million for our

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Barbara Mikulski: weather service and $870 million for our fisheries. $8.07 for nasa. we don't strategy, we agree with the white house strategy. so the house strategy cut $500 million for the exploration program. we believe we need to meet our

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Barbara Mikulski: obligations to fully fund the space shuttle and the space station. for the space shuttle, we need to astronauts safe and our space station to continue the work that we've begun. and we also need to invest the next generation of space vehicles at $3.6 billion. this will be very important to,

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Barbara Mikulski: meet our obligations and our international obligations as well as to our astronauts and to ou however, if you meet those scientists, they're not earth very much. they're continuing to break barriers. we know the house withheld money

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Barbara Mikulski: waiting for the augustine report. we've got the augustine report. we know where the president wants to go. we know where key advisers in the astronaut community have recommended to us, both the valiant -- gallant leaders from the past like buzz ald john glenn to the most contrary

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Barbara Mikulski: right we have an astronaut here bill nelson. we work hand in hand with our authorizers on that. we're also working ver terms of protecting our intellectual now, we have been concerned through the bush administration -- well, the clinton administration, the bush administration, and now we want

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Barbara Mikulski: to deal with this with the barak obama administration. we have too many backlogs in our patent and trademark office. we want toeduce those. american ingenuity should not have to stand in long lines to get their patent to protect ei intellectual property to come up with the products to go into the global marketplace and at the same time do jobs

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Barbara Mikulski: here. we're do to protect our planet and what we've done through earth science, $1.4 billion, and also what we're satellites, $1.2 billion, which are very important tools.

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Barbara Mikulski: because if we can better protect -- if we warn, we can save lives a money. the c.j.s. bill also ensures constitutional 2010 we provide billion to the census. we're worki hand in glove with

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Barbara Mikulski: secretary lock to make sure that the census bureau is well organized to be able to do this very important job. there are many things that -- more that we can talk about. but i know my colleague wan senator shelby wants to discuss the bill. we know our good fend from arizona has an amendment. so, mr. president, what i'm

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Barbara Mikulski: going to do is consent that my full statement be included in the record. and i'll parts of the bill as we move forward. mr. president, i know that -- note that senator shelby will return in a moment or two.