Barbara Ann Mikulski is an American politician and social worker who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 1987 to 2017.
35 Facts About Barbara Mikulski
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Barbara Mikulski was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976, and in 1986, she became the first woman elected to the United States Senate from Maryland.
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Barbara Mikulski was the first woman and first Marylander to hold the position.
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Barbara Mikulski served on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence.
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On March 2,2015, Barbara Mikulski announced that she would retire after five terms in the Senate and would not seek reelection in 2016.
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In January 2017, Mikulski joined Johns Hopkins University as a professor of public policy and advisor to University President Ronald J Daniels.
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Barbara Mikulski was born and raised in the Fell's Point neighborhood of East Baltimore, the eldest of the three daughters of Christine Eleanor and William Barbara Mikulski.
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Barbara Mikulski's parents were both of Polish descent; her immigrant great-grandparents had owned a bakery in Baltimore.
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Barbara Mikulski worked as a social worker for Catholic charities and Baltimore's Department of Social Services, helping at-risk children and educating seniors about the Medicare program.
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Barbara Mikulski became an activist social worker when she heard about plans to build Interstate 95 through Baltimore's Fells Point and Canton neighborhoods.
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Barbara Mikulski helped organize communities on both sides of the city and successfully fought to stop the construction of the road.
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Barbara Mikulski first received national attention in 1970 because of her remarks at a conference at The Catholic University of America regarding "Ethnic Americans" convened by Msgr.
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Barbara Mikulski's message became one of the major documents of the "ethnic movement".
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Barbara Mikulski pays the bill for every major government program and gets nothing or little in the way of return.
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Barbara Mikulski resents the way the working class is looked down upon.
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Barbara Mikulski is tired of being treated like an object of production.
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Barbara Mikulski's activism led to a seat on the Baltimore City Council in 1971.
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Barbara Mikulski was instrumental in solidifying democratizing reforms to the national delegate selection process.
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Barbara Mikulski was reelected four more times, never facing substantive opposition.
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Barbara Mikulski first ran for the US Senate in 1974, winning the Democratic nomination to face Republican incumbent Charles Mathias.
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Barbara Mikulski lost popularity with voters, opening the door for Mikulski's bid for the Senate.
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Barbara Mikulski served alongside Paul Sarbanes, the man she'd succeeded in the House.
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Barbara Mikulski, popularly known as "Senator Barb", was re-elected with large majorities in 1992,1998,2004, and 2010.
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Senator Barbara Mikulski nominated Hillary Clinton for President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention on July 26,2016.
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From 2007 to 2017, Barbara Mikulski served alongside Ben Cardin, who succeeded her in the 3rd District and held it for 20 years until succeeding Sarbanes in the Senate.
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In 2014, Barbara Mikulski was voted the "meanest senator" in Washingtonian's survey of congressional staffers.
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Barbara Mikulski was one of 11 senators to vote against both the 1991 and 2002 resolutions authorizing the use of force in Iraq.
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Barbara Mikulski has opposed predatory lending, and has been an outspoken opponent of Fairbanks Capital, alleged to have illegally foreclosed on over 100 homes in Maryland.
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Barbara Mikulski has been an outspoken advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Barbara Mikulski has spoken in support of abortion rights and has stated she does not view the opposition to this issue as misogynistic.
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On October 1,2008, Barbara Mikulski voted in favor of HR1424, the Senate version of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which provided a $700 billion bailout to the United States financial market.
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In October 2013, Barbara Mikulski sponsored a bill honoring naturopathic medicine.
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In 2011, Barbara Mikulski was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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Also in 2012, Barbara Mikulski was presented the Harriet Ross Tubman Lifetime Achievement Award by the Maryland African American Tourism Council.
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In November 2015, Barbara Mikulski was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White House.