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Barbara Boxer: I am here to talk about the sanctuary cities legislation and the GMO labeling issue, which Senator Tester was so…

On the recordJuly 6, 2016
I am here to talk about the sanctuary cities legislation and the GMO labeling issue, which Senator Tester was so eloquent about. If ever there should be a leader on this Senate floor telling us the truth about the GMO labeling bill, it is he because he deals with this. As he explained, he has worked the family farm for a long time--and his family, for generations. Unfortunately, at this point, it is big agribusiness that is influencing this. I am more hopeful than he is that we can stop the bill. But let me talk about the fact that we have an immigration crisis in this Nation. Part of it is because we turned away from a very important bill, a bipartisan bill, in 2013 that was comprehensive immigration reform--bipartisan, passed by a huge number of Senators, and it died in the Republican House. That is No. 1. No. 2, we have the Supreme Court that is deadlocked on the immigration issue, and Senators on the other side of the aisle will not even bring up President Obama's Supreme Court nominee for a hearing. They will not do their job. So the House Republicans killed immigration reform that was comprehensive back in 2013, and the Senate Republicans are deadlocking the Supreme Court for partisan purposes. It is a nightmare that can be rectified only in this election that is coming up.…
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California
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Jul 6, 2016

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