Long-Time HELP Democrat Sen. Barbara Mikulski Plans To Retire By 2017
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D), the body’s longest-serving female Senator, former Appropriations Committee Chair and advocate of quality and comparative effectiveness provisions in the Affordable Care Act, recently announced her plans not to seek re-election in 2016 and retire.
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