Barbara Boxer actually said...

"A growing body of peer reviewed science shows people living downstream from coal mines face a greater risk of cancer, birth defects, and premature deaths."

"How do you know what to do? We have the Clean Water Act, we have the Safe Drinking Water Act, we have the Surface Mining Act."

"But that is not my job and is not the job of this U.S. Senate. It is to protect the health and safety of the people, while of course looking at the economics."

"How about there are 21 peer reviewed studies by different people? How about that I am going to put them in the record and these are the facts that were found out."