[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18214]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING SENATOR BARBARA MIKULSKI

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, President Obama has announced to our 
gratification that our own Senator Barbara Mikulski will receive the 
Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is an inspiring figure. She and I 
came to the Senate together and we will leave the Senate together. She 
has been a friend, an ally, and one of the most articulate people I 
have ever served with. She has a way with words that are just Barbara 
Mikulski's way of speaking. I so admire her for that and all the other 
things I mentioned.
  She has spent decades as a leader in Congress, what will be 30 years 
in the Senate, and during that period of time she has done social work, 
which is what she did by profession, and has focused on the poor, the 
middle class, and the disadvantaged. She has inspired a generation of 
women and has been a mentor to both sides of the aisle.
  We are all happy to see this great woman--and she is a great woman--
receive the recognition she so rightly deserves from the President of 
the United States and a grateful country. We should all congratulate 
Senator Mikulski on receiving this great honor.

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