[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3471]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING BARBARA MIKULSKI

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