Barbara Boxer: “My colleague points out that what she is attempting to do in this amendment, of which I am so proud to be a cosponsor…”

“My colleague points out that what she is attempting to do in this amendment, of which I am so proud to be a cosponsor, is to make sure what happened to Washington and Oregon and California is not going to happen to any other State, be it Kansas, be it Illinois, be it anywhere else. For the life of me, I guess I need to say to my friend, does she understand why anyone in this Chamber, knowing what happened to our States, knowing what happened to our businesses, knowing what happened to our consumers, knowing what happened, in the case of California, to our State budget because our Governor protected the consumers from these rates--can my friend understand why there would be one vote against her amendment, given what we know happened to us?”