Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski is set to become the first woman to chair the prestigious Senate Appropriations Committee, a position left open this week by the death of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye. A ...

She is known as the dean of the Senate among her women colleagues. She is often described as feisty. And after she became the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, The New York Times reported ...

MOVING UP: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) will lead the Senate Appropriations Committee, replacing Sen. Daniel Inouye, a Hawaii Democrat who died earlier this week of respiratory complications. She ...

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) has intentions of succeeding Maryland’s Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who announced earlier this month that she will not be running after her current term ends in 2017.

NASA PAYBACK: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, says she's still trying to find a way to "reimburse" the agency for costs it incurred ...

Mikulski said that she has asked Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to choose two of the 12 annual spending bills to bring to the Senate floor in July. The chairwoman noted that her committee has ...