"I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe."
Barbara Mikulski is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Maryland and previously in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the longest-serving woman in congressional history at the time of her retirement.