[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16331]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                CONGRATULATING SENATOR BARBARA MIKULSKI

  (Mr. SARBANES asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today and join with my colleagues 
from Maryland in congratulating and saluting Senator Barbara Mikulski 
on her amazing and outstanding career.
  They often say of people that, once they start their career, they 
never look back. Well, in Senator Mikulski's case, she always looked 
back. She always remembered where she came from, and she fought for the 
people of east Baltimore every step of the way.
  I had the pleasure over the years, as I attended events with Senator 
Mikulski, of gathering of what I call Mikulski-isms, these golden 
nuggets of wisdom that you can live by. I wanted to mention a few.
  She used to talk about the need to cooperate. She used to say: I am 
not into finger-pointing; I am into pinpointing.
  She said, when others are wringing their hands, we need to come with 
a helping hand.
  She talked about the fact that, behind every me, is a ``we.''
  She talked about how people have three shifts every day: they work at 
their job, they come home and they work for their family, and they 
serve in their community.
  I remember her once referring to a particularly futile effort as 
``spitting off the Bay Bridge to raise the tide.''
  We love to remember Senator Mikulski's voice. We are going to miss 
her in this place, but we are going to remember that voice that fought 
for Baltimore, for Maryland, and for America.

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