Barbara Boxer actually said...

"What we are doing in our bill is we are trying to ease the burden on the smaller refiners."

"The U.S. should commit to a stronger national and international role to help stabilize climate change."

"Now, my colleague calls it a tax. It is not a tax because if you clean up your act, and you figure out how to get the carbon out of the air, you do not have to do anything."

"Climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world."