From the office of U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski: WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today announced the Abingdon Fire Company has been awarded $82,800 in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program to purchase life-saving firefighting equipment. As the Chairwoman of […]
Mikulski Calls for In-Person Briefing from IRS on Status of Theft Investigation Into Bel Air’s Accupay
From the office of U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski: WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that she has called on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel to provide an in-person briefing to discuss IRS investigations into alleged payroll service provider (PSP) tax theft and […]
Mikulski, Md. Delegation Push University of Maryland as Test Site for Unmanned Aircraft
From the Office of U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-5) and Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), together with Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and the bipartisan Maryland House Delegation, sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today urging him to give the University System of Maryland’s Unmanned Aircraft […]
Mikulski Urges Fast Action to Avoid Fiscal Cliff; End to Culture of Decay
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today spoke on the Senate floor to urge swift action to avoid the fiscal cliff and bring an end the culture of delay in order to restore confidence on Main Street and Wall Street. “[W]e need a sense of urgency about solving the fiscal cliff. We need […]
Mikulski: Don’t Manage Department of Defense Workforce by “Arbitrary Head Counts”
From the office of Sen. Barbara Mikulski: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) has sent a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urging him to manage the federal workforce based on cost and workload, not arbitrary head counts. She was joined in the letter by her Senate colleagues Tom Harkin (D-Ia.), Claire […]
Mikulski: Government Shutdown Would Have “Dire Consequences”
From the office of U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Speaking today on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) warned of the dire consequences a government shutdown would have on the economy, on families, on communities and national safety, and on civil servants. “I’m against a government shutdown,” Senator Mikulski said. […]
Mikulski, O’Malley Praise Health Care Reform Benefits on Law’s First Anniversary
From the office of U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, joined by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler, today celebrated the one-year anniversary of health care reform with a panel discussion in Baltimore about how the […]
Mikulski, Cardin Announce Federal Funding to Recruit Volunteer Firefighters in Abingdon
From the offices of U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin (both D-Md.) today announced the Abingdon Volunteer Fire Department won $186,000 in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response (SAFER) grant program to […]
