[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 43 (Thursday, March 15, 2012)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1685-S1686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING BARBARA MIKULSKI

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, on Saturday Senator Barbara Mikulski becomes 
the longest serving woman in

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the history of the U.S. Congress. We will mark that occasion on 
Wednesday when her family and friends will be present here in the 
Capitol. I have prepared detailed remarks for that occasion, but I 
thought it was important that we note very briefly here today this 
milestone in the history of our country.
  Last January Barbara Mikulski surpassed Margaret Chase Smith from 
Maine as the longest serving woman in the Senate. On Saturday, March 
17, she will surpass Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers from 
Massachusetts as the longest serving woman in Congress.

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