[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 177 (Thursday, December 8, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H7553]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING SENATOR BARBARA MIKULSKI

  (Mr. CUMMINGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Speaker, I welcome this opportunity to reflect, 
once again, on Senator Mikulski's vision for America and upon all that 
she has achieved in public life.
  On a personal note, I am deeply grateful that God has given me the 
opportunity to know and work with a woman who all would agree is a 
remarkable human being and a person I am honored to call my friend.
  Barbara Mikulski's progressive values are solid, and they are clear, 
and we have always known that she would fight for all of us every 
single day. Less well-known, however, is Barbara Mikulski's lifetime 
vision of bringing all of America's working families together in 
support of progressive change. Here is a dream that ties together her 
roots in Highlandtown, in Baltimore, with my own heritage from south 
Baltimore and west Baltimore.
  She is, indeed, a very, very special woman. She has never forgotten 
from whence she has come. One of the things I also love about Barbara 
Mikulski is that she consistently synchronizes her conduct with her 
conscience.
  We will miss her, but we know that Barbara will always be fighting 
for the people of our great city, for the great people of the State of 
Maryland, and for the people of these great United States.

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