When Senator Mikulski heard, on the evening of Wednesday August 28, 1991, she was in her apartment on North Charles street - she dropped everything and ordered her limo downtown to a restaurant called Connelly's. The Senator had gotten the word that the old Baltimore restaurant was closing.

She entered the restaurant and ordered up her favorite - fried fish sandwich - it would be the last one ever served by Connelly's. The busy politically-active Senatorial leader had a lot on her plate that night - including one fried fish sandwich.