Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It’s the stuff of legends. And now it’s the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.
BARBARA MIKULSKI
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we’d go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He’s the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/george-mitchell-introduced-the-idea-that-wed-go-on-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/i-knew-of-senator-george-mitchell-because-he-was-v-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he’s swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as ‘dancing with the stars.’ And we had this great rock ‘n’ roll fund raiser.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/senator-george-mitchell-is-a-man-of-many-talents-a-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - [During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/during-the-passage-of-the-lilly-ledbetter-fair-pay-683x1024.jpg)
![Barbara Mikulski Quote - Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women’s health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, ‘take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.’ It was done on ten thousand male medical students.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/nancy-kassebaum-and-i-worked-on-a-womens-health-ag-683x1024.jpg)
