Opportunity to stand up and fight for the values that we know to be absolutely absolutely fundamental to american democracy. Ms. Brawner representative elect, thank you very much for talking to cspan. Rep. Elect jayapal thank you so much. General jack bergman. You are here for orientation week. How has it been going . Great meeting all of the staffers who will be doing all the organizational work. Talk about your military career. When did you begin it and talk about moving through the ranks . I joined thean marine corps through an officer flightte program, did training and flew helicopters in vietnam and then got out from active duty, but i stayed in the reserves. While i was a reservist for the 1880s and 1990s, i flew airplanes for Northwest Airlines and started a couple of Small Businesses in the medical equipment arena. Byoved up through the ranks just doing what good marines and other Service People do, taking on tough missions and getting them done. You were commander of the marine corps first forces reserve. For how many years and what was that experience like. Gen. Bergman i was given that job after two years in washington, d. C. And promoted to Lieutenant General and moved to new orleans does come once before hurricane katrina, took command for four to half years and finally took off the uniform. We have sites all over the country, 180 sites. We were very involved in the mobilization of reserves and guardsmen in support of Operation Iraqi freedom. It is a very busy time. What about that experience will help you here representing michigan . Gen. Bergman what will help me about that experience is i had a chance to lead at the highest levels and work with different groups, whether it be joined amongst the services with different countries, coalitions, understanding that groups or individuals may have different viewpoints, but if they all come together for a common purpose to get something dumb to get something done, that will help me working with all covers meant around the country. I am only one of 435, but we will come to consensus on tough decisions. What are some of the issues you want to work on . Rep. Elect bergman we know we have a whole lot of debt. That is one of the Biggest Challenges we have in this country going forward. We have to tackle the debt. We have to tackle tough decisions. Unprecedented National Security issues that we did not have rabies lay. We will have to deal with that to make sure we keep our people safe and we just have to make sure that our people have jobs and opportunities so they can raise a family like my parents did after persevering through the Great Depression and world war ii and the role they handed us, we will have to ask what is the role we are handing our grandkids . What impact do you think your parentss experience had on who you are today and wanting to serve . Rep. Elect bergman it was profound because i was raised by depression era bash parents depression era parents. I was raised in a small town middleclass family. We had all the love and discipline we needed. We had values, we had faith. My parents always expected outcomes and it was good enough for them for me to come home with an a. They would say, that is nice, what are you going to do with it . That will serve me well. How . Rep. Elect bergman what i promised the constituents is that we will talk about outcomes. It is not just coming here to represent them. It is what have we accomplished . Sen. Mikulski when did you when did you decide to run and why . Rep. Elect bergman about a year ago my wife and i were here in washington, d. C. And realized our representative was going to retire. It was an open seat and we had already been talking about what world are we leaving our grandkids . So we put two and two together and through our hat in the ring. What do you hope to a college in your first year or two . Rep. Elect bergman representing the constituents of the first district. Do to make sure that they can raise a family, have a job, live where they want mostve and some of the beautiful geography in our country with our woods and water and natural beauty, if i can accomplish those things that they say at the end of two years, he did not get it all done, but he had a good start. Anyone or anything you are looking forward to doing in washington . Rep. Elect bergman just working. As a marine, give me the mission. Give me some basic tools and i will figure out the way. Already the people i have met were motivated and now all we have to do is figure out how to work as a group. I am just looking forward to the challenges. Anything that has surprised you so far . Rep. Elect bergman not really. Maybe one thing. I always knew the staff would be good and professional out here, but the interaction with the staff from all different arenas, all different areas, i know we are going to have a lot of good work we get done and we are going to have some fun in the process and we are all going to learn. Thank you very much for your time. Rep. Elect bergman my pleasure. Thank you. On tuesday, january third for live coverage of the opening day of the new congress. Watch the official swearingin of new and reelected members of the house and senate and the election of the speaker of the house. Our allday live coverage of the 7 00 a. M. Ts begins at eastern on cspan and www. Cspan. 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And Cautious Congress legislative problems on the horizon created evidence that this crusade against societys greatest enemies may be slowed or may level off and fade. This was the climate, the land, and the unfinished task that faced Lyndon Johnson on the first of december, 1966. The Film Documents the final months of the year of president lyndon b. Johnson, his meeting with mexicos president , awarding the medal of honor to a marine who fought in vietnam, and celebrating the holidays with his family at his texas ranch. At 8 00 on the presidency, author of madam president the ret presidency of unit edith will drop our completer American History tv schedule go to www. Cspan. Org. Maryland senator Barbara Mikulski is retiring after 30 years in the senate. She is the longest serving woman in that bodys history. Earlier she gave her farewell address from the senate floor and reflected on her childhood, education, and career. Her remarks were followed by tributes from Susan Collins of maine and Barbara Boxer of california. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Ms. Mikulski thank you, mr. President. I rise today to take the floor for what i call my summing up speech. It is not my Farewell Speech because i have the honor and privilege of being the Ranking Member on the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee and will speak later on this week when we move the continuing resolution. But it is the practice and the tradition of the senate that when a senator is departing the senate to give what they call their farewell address. Well, mine is not going to be as memorable as when George Washington resigned his commission and other memorable speeches. But i do want to say words about how i feel today about having the great opportunity to serve in the United States congress, 30 years in the United States senate, 10 years in the house of representatives. And, yes, five years in the Baltimore City council. I have served in elected Public Office for 45 years, more than half of my life has been in elected public service, but at the same time all of my life has been focused on service. I want to rise today to thank the people of maryland. I want to rise to thank them for their vote of confidence. You know, when people vote for you, its not only that theyre sending you to washington or sending you to city hall, theyre giving you a vote of confidence that you will be their voice, that you will be their vote, that you will be at their side and on their side. And thats what i want to be able to talk about today. For the people of baltimore who gave me my first shot in running for the Baltimore City council, when i beat the political bosses, when running for Political Office as a woman was considered a novelty, they said, you dont look the part. I said, this is what the part looks like. And this is what the part is going to be like. And along the way, you know, so many people helped me. Behind me is a whole lot of w we. I got started in public life because of volunteers and activists, who on their own time and their own dime, volunteered their themselves to not only help me get elected but to be involved in their communities, to be civically engaged, to make their community and their country a better place. These are the people who were mind me or, guess what . No, i was behind them, because they certainly have led the way. And along the way there were people that not only helped me get elected, but they helped me govern. People who, again, volunteered their own time. I had a Wonderful ServiceAcademy Board that helped me pick the best and the an bright. I had a judicial appointment Advisory Board that made sure that i helped nominate the best people to serve in the federal judiciary. And also i had a Veterans Advisory Group who brought to me what was really happening to the veterans, not what was in the press releases from the veterans administration. And, of course, i had a fabulous Strategy Group that was functioned as a kitchen cabinet. It was a kitchen cabinet, and we spent a lot of times cooking things up to try to make our country and our communities best places. So i thank them all for what they d but did. But, you know, when we come here, we can dmot it alone we cannot do it aloan, so we have a fabulous staff that serves us in washington and serves us in our state. My current staff id like to thank my chief of staff, my deputy chief, my state director, my legislative director, my Communications Director matt juror again sen, my scheduling director katie finley, josh yearly, my appropriations staff chuck geefe revment, the help committee with jean doyle and all my staff in my state office that helped me. It is also the support sthaf that made sure that the phones got answered. You didnt get one of those call 1, press 2, press 184, et cetera, et cetera. And also the people who answer the mail, whether it was nail mail, which whether it was snail mail or email because we really believe that we need toed to be here for the people. When i called their names there are also others who filled those jobs throughout my time in Public Office. And they worked very hard to make sure that we could represent the people of maryland and to be on their side. After 45 years, though, it is time for me to say goodbye to elected office but not to service. Mr. President , i had the high privilege to be the longestserving woman in congressional history. But what i say, its not how long you serve but how well you serve. For those who know me and have been to rallies and floors and so orntion they know that i say, im here to work on the macroissues and im here to work on the macaroni and cheese issues. To work on the big picture, to make sure, though, that the peoples daytoday needs were converted into Public Policy. While were working on Public Policy to try to help our communities, we also have to remember in our own states that we have constituent service issues. One of the things im really proud of is my constituent Service Staff where if you were a veteran and you needed help or you had a Social Security or medicare problem, you could call senator bar shall and you didnt feel that you had to go to a 1 00 fundraiser or meet somebody who had connections. Much the only connection you needed was a foafnlt you didnt even knee wifi. You could just call me. Summer, winter, spring, or fall, they had senator barb. And i tried to be of service because service was in my d. N. A. I was raised to think about service. You know, my mother and father ran a small Neighborhood Grocery store in one of baltimores famous row house neighborhoods. And every day they would get up and they would open that Grocery Store and say to their custome customers, good morning, can i help you . Now, in running that birks they also wanted to be sure that they were connected to the people. We werent a bigbox shop. We were a shop for the little people. If anybody was in difficulty, my father was happy to extend credit. It was called, well write your name down in a book. Pay us when you can. Dont worry that you got laid off at bethlehem steel. We know your wife had a difficult childbirth and needs this extra stuff. Barbara, deliver those groceries. Take it down with that little red wagon i got for you. I would maybe take orange juice down to a shutin who was a diabetic. The tip he gave me was always treat people fair and scwairm the other place where i learned about service was from the newness. I had the Great Fortune t go to catholic schools. These wonderful women who led the consecrated life taught us not only about reading, writing, and arithmetic, but when they taught us religion, they emphasized the attitudes. If anybody reads the scripture, if you go to matthew 5, you know what has shaped us. One of the lines is blessed are those who are meek of heart. I had to really work at that one really, really work at that one. But, at the same time, there were those that said, those who hunger and thirst after justice. And thats what motivated me. It was focusing on the values of faith, like love your neighbor, care for the sick, worry about the poor. And also in this institute of noter damn where i went, i was insphierd by a motto from something called the Christopher Movement where you were to help carry the burden and it said, its better to light one Little Candle than to curse the darkness. That is what was motivating me to the service. You know, we really believed in america in my family. And we really believed in it in my community. When my greatgrandmother came to this country from poland in 1886, she had little money in her pocket, but she had big dreams in her heart. Women didnt even have the right to vote. 100 years to the year that she landed in this country, i landed in the United States senate. Thats what opportunity means in the United States of america. I never thought id come into politics. Politics, growing up in baltimore and my family wasnt involved in it my family was involved more in churchwork, philanthrophy, doing good works in the way they did their business. But because in baltimore in those days it was political bosses, guys with pot bellies and smoked cigars and did deals, et cetera, and that wasnt going to be meevment i thought me. I thought went into the field of social work. I got involved because they wanted to put a 16lane highway through the europeanet europeanc neighborhoods of baltimore. They were going to smash and bulldoze the first africanamerican homeownership neighborhood in baltimore, a Community Called rosemont. I said, look, we can fight this. We just got to give ourselves a militant name. I put together a group called scar, Southeast Community against the row. We came up with our africanamerican neighbors across the town. They had a group called ram. And a Citywide Coalition group called mad, movement against destruction. I have hauls a certain flair about these things. We did take on city havment but the more i knocked on doors and our community did, we werent heard. So i decided, the heck with t if i knocked on a door and i wasnt going to be herksd i was going to knock on the door to get elected. Thats what i did. Knocking on doors, putting together a coalition to find the odds, defying what people said. You cant win. No woman could tbhin an ethnic neighborhood. No woman can win who isnt part of the political machine. And no woman could win who had been active in the civil rights movement. And i said, guess what . We defied the odds. Well, we defied the odds and thats how i came into Public Office. A champion on behalf of the people. I wanted to come to be an advocate for people to have better lives, to have better livelihoods and have better neighborhoods, to be able to save jobs and do whacked toen do what i could to be able to help them. I had to show up, stand up, and speak up for my constituents, staying close enough to the people so that they wouldnt fall between the cracks. Meeting their daytoday needs and the longrange needs of the nation. When i came to the senate, i was the very first woman elected in her own right. Though i was all by myself, though, i was never alone. When i came, there was only one other woman here the wonderful and distinguished colleague from kansas, senator nancy kassebaum, a wonderful colleague. When i was by myself as the only woman in the democratic caucus, i was never alone. Its because of the great men that we could work with in the United States senate. Now, i had the privilege that my colleagues to work with two of the best men in america, senator paul sarbanes, my senior senator when i came, my champion, helped me get on the right committees, convinced everybody that my name was barb mikulski, not bella sbzic i was a little bit of both. And now senator ben cardin, who also has been at my side. And weve worked together o on issues related to maryland, both large and small. There were others who taught me, like senator byrd, senator kennedy, and others. And all what it was all about was being able to work for jobs and for justice. Though i was the first democratic woman, i wanted to be the first of many. I wanted to help women get elected to the senate and do what i could to be able to help them to do that. It has been just wonderful to see that now there are over there are 20 women who are currently serving in the United States senate, and one of the great joys has been to work to help empower them so that they could be a powerhouse and thats why we ran those power workshops that struck fear into the hearts of the guys. Nothing to worry about, guys. Just keep an eyen us. The and ive been proud of what ive learned, taking the valings i learned growing up the values i learned growing up and trying to put them in the federal law books. Because for me, no issue was too small to take up. And no cause was too big for me to take on. I firmly believe that the best ideas come from the people. Thats where some of my greatest accomplishments came from. One of the things i loved the most was being in maryland, moving around the state, going to all of the counties in the state. I loved my mondays in maryland, where i could meet and go into unannounced places, like diners. A lot of people like to do ton halls. Theyre terrific, but i like to show up at a diner, go table to table to table and not only kind of like eyeball the french fries but listen to what the people have to say. And the other thing that i really liked was round tables. Absolutely those rands tables where those round tablings where you could engage in conversation with people and listen to them, not show off how smart or cool you were. So i really, really loved doing that. And out of that came some of my first big accomplishments. When i came to the United States senate, my father was quite ill with alzheimers. My father was a wonderful man. He worked so hard for my sisters and i that we would have an education. He saw his role as a protector and as a provider, that in providing for us an education, we could always take care of ourselves. And when he became so ill and turned into a nursing home, as i listened to other families who would come to visit people in longterm care, we saw that the very cruel rules of our own government were forcing people to spend down their entire life savings and put their family home or their family farm in as an asset base. Well, barb mikulski said this, listening to them. Family responsibility, yes. You need to take responsibility for your family, but the cruel rules of government should never push a family into family bankruptcy. So i crafted something called the spousal antiimpoverishment rules that enable elderly couples to keep their asset and to keep their home. Aarp tells me that since that legislation passed over 20 years ago, weve helped one million seniors not lose their home or their family farm because one becomes too ill because of that dreaded a word or parkinsons or others. Thats what i mean about the best ideas coming from the people. And then also listening to women who work hard every single day and yet werent getting equal pay for equal work. And of course we heard it in lilly ledbetter, but we heard it from lots of lillys and lots of roses and lots of marys and lots of marias. And thats why we worked hard to pass the equal pay for equal work act. And then we also found working together with senator nancy kassebaum, our friends over in the house, olympia snowe, connie morroa, pat schroeder, that women were being excluded from the poet kolls at n. I. H. The famous study take an an aprinciple an aspirin a day, keep a heart attack away was done on male medical students. So connie, pat, barb showed up at n. I. H. And we pounded the table and said lets start practicing good science instead of bad stereotypes. Make sure were included where we should in a legitimate scientific way. Out of that came the appointment of bernadine healey, the head of n. I. H. Out of that came the office of Womens Health at n. I. H. And then out of that came the famous hormone replacement study that dr. Healey championed. And then we were helped to get money in the federal checkbook. One study changed medical practice and lowered Breast Cancer rates in this country by 15 . Wow. Thats what working together does, to try to save lives a million at the at a time. That was on Womens Health. And then as we saw just the growing concerns about the issue of the high cost of college, that the First Mortgage many of our kids are facing is their student loans, working together on the other side of the aisle, we created the americorps, making sure we enable people to be able to be of service to their country and earn a voucher to pay down their student loans. And then there was a roundtable where i met with parents of special needs children, and a mother asked me to change the law from retardation to intellectual disability because she was being bullied. Well, i came back here and drafted legislation. And again, on the other side of the aisle was mike enzi who worked with me to pass that. Rosa now is a member of the special olympics. She wins medals. She was person of the week on tv. Thats what mondays in maryland mean, mr. President. Its worth everything to do things like that. And in maryland, we work, along with senator sarbanes and cardin, to clean up the bay, to work to make sure our port was viable. Not only our port of baltimore for, you know, ships of commerce, but also we worked on the Space Community at goddard. I am so proud of the fact that i worked very hard to save the goddard to save the hubble space telescope. In that hubble space telescope, it turned out to be the richest contact lens in world history, but again, the astronaut senators, jake garn, john glenn working together, we did it and it has ensured americas premier leadership in astronomy and space for years and for several decades. So over the years, though, i could go through accomplishments after accomplishments, but one of the things that i have learned as my lessons in life is that i learned that the best ship you could sail on in life is something called friend ship. That it is friendship that makes life worth living, thatten ables life to have a life of giving. Thats what friendship is. And when i think about the friends along the way that ive met both in my hometown and my state, there are also those that are here, the people that on both sides of the aisle have been absolutely, absolutely so important to me. And the fact that we could work on both sides of the aisle. I spoke about senator cardin and senator sarbanes, but also on the Appropriations Committee, it was senator shelby, it was senator kit bond that we could actually work together, put our Heads Together to try to come up with Real Solutions for real problems, and we could do that. And the other is not just to judge one another because we have a party label. Im so darned sick of that. So in the year of the women when so many came like Barbara Boxer and patty murray and dianne feinstein, also senator Kay Bailey Hutchison came from texas. I got a call from senator hutchison one day, and my staff said eww, she wants to work with you on something. Eww, eww, eww. She is a conservative from texas and she wants to do something for women. I said how about if we listen . Could we start with listening . Could we start with just listening. Senator hutchison had a fabulous idea. In the i. R. A. Contributions in those days, if you were in the marketplace, you could put in 2,000, but if you were fulltime at home, you could only put in 500. What senator hutchison wanted to do was to make it have parity. That old word parity. So i said yes. Our staffs told us not to work with each other, but we were going to forge ahead. We went out to dinner to talk over strategy, but we talked about our lives together and how she got her start and obstacles she faced and i did the same. We had such a good time. We said lets invite other women. Well, that became the famous dinners, the famous dinners that the women of the senate have. We knew we would never be a caucus because we were not uniform in our views or the way we vote, but what we wanted to be was, number one, a zone of civility where we would treat each other with respect, our debates would be observed with intellectual rigor, and when the day was over, the day would be over. Those dinners have now stood the test of time, and im so proud of them, and i have been so proud to work with my colleague from maine, the senior senator from maine, senator collins, who has been such a friend and such an ally because although when youre not a although we are not a caucus, we are a force that can come together, and we have made change and we have made a difference. So that doesnt go down in the law books, but it certainly i think should go down in the history books. So, mr. President , as i get ready to leave the senate, what will i miss . Well, i will never have another job as consequential as this. This is pretty consequential. The fate of this country and maybe even the world lies in the hands of congress and the United States senate. I will also miss the people in the senate, the wonderful professional staff, but im also going to miss the doorkeepers, the elevator operators, the cafeteria workers, all who have and our Police Officers who say in helping the one, we help the many. And we learn so much from them, because i have learned so much from them. I learned a lot from the elevator operators. One was a lady of very modest means who every day would say to me and to all of us have a blessed day. What a great gift she gave us. Have a blessed day. And an elevator operator now who himself has recovered from very Challenging Health issues, always cheerful, and asks how is your day, and the last thing that you could do is not return it with a smile. And those are the kind of people that i will always remember. All those helping hands. So i say to my colleagues now i will never, ever forget you. Helen keller, helen keller, although she was blind, was a great visionary, and she said all that you deeply love, you never lose. And all that i have ever met have become a part of me. Each and every one of you have become a part of me. Everybody i met along the way, whether it was the roundtables, the elevator operators, have become a part of me. Youve shaped me and you have helped me, i think, become a better person. So when i wrap up, people say well, what do you think youre going to do, barb . And im going to say this my plan is not a Job Description but its a life description. Every day, im going to learn something new. Every day, i want to give something back. Every day, i want to do something where i keep a friend or keep an old friend or make a new one. And i want to thank god that i lived in the United States of america that enabled me to do this, and in conclusion, actually George Bernard shaw, who i dont know how he would have felt about me, but he wrote this pretty good. He said this i am convinced that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as i live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever i can, for the harder i work, the more i live. I will rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. Its sort of a splendid torch which i got to hold up for a moment, and i want to make it burn as brightly as possible as i turn it over to future generations. God bless the United States senate, and god bless the United States of america. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Mr. Cardin mr. President , yesterday, i had an opportunity on the floor to talk about senator mikulski, but i just want to take one minute because i know a lot of my colleagues here want to speak, to thank her on behalf of the people of maryland. Mr. President , yesterday, i was at the inauguration with senator mikulski of katherine pugh, our new mayor of Baltimore City, and as is the tradition on programs, the senior senator speaks and then the junior senator speaks, so i had the opportunity to speak after the dynamic remarks of senator mikulski. Thats been a burden that ive had now for ten years, so as i pointed out to the people of maryland, we are losing one of the great giants and advocates for our state, and thats going to be a great loss. The only benefit i can see is that i will not have to follow senator mikulski on the program in the future. We are living part of a legacy, and we know that, and we know that what we do here in the United States senate one day will be recorded in the history of our country, and i know that senator mikulski will be mentioned frequently in her incredible accomplishments here in the United States senate. I just wanted to express on a personal basis that my life in the United States senate has been special. All of us being in the senate is special, but my enjoyment, productivity and life in the senate has been made so much greater because of my seatmate and friend, senator Barbara Mikulski. Ms. Collins madam president . The presiding officer the senator from maine. Ms. Collins madam president , it is with deep affection, admiration and appreciation that i rise today to offer my heartfelt congratulations to our colleague and my dear friend, senator Barbara Mikulski. As her service in the senate comes to a close. As the longest serving woman in the history of the United States congress, 30 years in this chamber in addition to ten years in the house, she has earned the gratitude of the people of her beloved maryland and of the entire nation. That gratitude is based on much more than simple arithmetic, much more than just how many years she has served here, impressive though that is. In reflecting on her service, it is difficult to decide where to begin. Her accomplishments, her vision, or her complete dedication to the people she serves, the dedication that began in that neighborhood in baltimore that she described so passionately today. No matter where we begin, we end up in the same place. Its all about her character. Perhaps the best way to describe senator mikulskis character is by noting that she is not only officially the longestserving woman in the history of the congress, but she is also unofficially the dean of the women in the senate. That title perfectly demonstrates the trust and respect that she has earned from her colleagues. Madam president , as a brandnew senator in 1997, i was one of those ought toered by this accomplished and experienced dean. At the time, senator mikulski had already been in the house and the senate for a combined 20 years. She didnt know me from adam or perhaps i should say, from eve. Yet, despite the difference in our seniority, our states, and our party, she took me under her wing. She was one of the first people who called me after i was sworn in as a new senator. And i was so grateful for her kindness and her wisdom. She invited me to a power workshop in her office, along with mary landrieu, the other woman who was elected that year. And she taught me the ropes of the appropriations process and instituted regular bipartisan dinners for the women of the senate. In the years since then, i have come to know her as a fighter, as a trailblazer, and as a person of such integrity. Maybe i. T. All those years maybe its all those years with the nuns that taught you that. It has been a privilege to work with her on such vital issues as home health care, maritime issues, higher education, pay equality, and an issue near and dear to both of us alzheimers research. Serving with her on the Appropriations Committee, i have witnessed firsthand what an extraordinary leader she is fair, openminded and yet with Firm Expectations and a clear sense of direction. Senator mikulski is, above all, a hard worker. Growing up in east baltimore, she learned the value of hard work in her familys Grocery Store, as we have heard today. Her commitment to making a difference in her neighborhood led her to become a social worker, helping atrisk children and our seniors. The statement that she made sums up her approach to serving in congress. I was a social worker for baltimore families, now i am a social worker building opportunities for families throughout america. And she has, madam president. Two years ago, i was honored to stand alongside senator barb to accept the Allegheny College prize for civility in public life. We were representing