And safe environments. Mr. President , i urge all of my colleagues to support this reauthorization bill. Thank you, mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Ms. Mikulski mr. President , i want to thank the gentlelady from maine and alaska for their comments as well as the gentlelady from washington state. Wasnt that impressive . I mean for the last hour on both sides of the aisle the women of the senate have spoken out. Yet this bill was not a womans bill. This was a family bill where the men and women of the senate came together on a bipartisan basis and have developed a framework for a sensible, affordable rethoargs of the childcare and Development Block grant. Im so pleased to be part of this with senator harkin, the chair of our healtheducation committee, senator lamar alexander, and senator richard burr, my counterpart on the subcommittee where we work so hard to do this. But then we talked among ourselves, we the women in the senate often joke, but its no l