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Barbara Mikulski

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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Legends Pope Supportive
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
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Able Doctors Redemption
Nothing really happened – I was elected in ’86 – until 1992, and that’s when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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Debacles Happened Hills
People aren’t for hitting.
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Hitting People Violence
I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
BARBARA MIKULSKI

Guy Kind Share
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
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Country Safety Senior
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Age Important Safety
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
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America Military Rights
One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that’s how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate’s history.
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Bridge Missing Opportunity
College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
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College Dream Financial
I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.
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Integrity Thinking Whole
In my state [ Maryland] we’ve lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it’s very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.
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Borders Jobs Thinking
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
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Iraq Responsibility War
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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Retirement Senior Sick
I would say that in some ways George Mitchell is kind of an old fashioned guy, in terms of these basic values, but he was a very modern person, encouraging, he was not only accepting but he was actually encouraging.
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Guy Kind Way
There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.
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Arms Social Together

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