Barbara Boxer: “But, no, let's look at these priorities. The President wants to bring an education bill to the floor. My colleague from…”

“But, no, let's look at these priorities. The President wants to bring an education bill to the floor. My colleague from Massachusetts is our real leader in the Senate, and he is going to talk about it. There are some good ideas that have been carved out between the parties. There is not enough money behind it. It is a false promise. A kid takes a test and fails the test. What are you going to do for the kid? You can test him every 6 months. Why not test him every 2 months? What good is it if there is no one available to help that child learn? So when the President says, 'Leave no child behind,' where is the beef? When you look at the environmental budget--and you have to remember the President stood in front of some beautiful lakes and streams and rivers and said he was an environmentalist--how can we have prosperity when our environment is dirty? Yet we look at the budget, which includes the priorities of this President, and you see nothing but destruction. I have seen it happen in California in El Segundo. We had a refinery that was releasing air pollution that aggravated very badly those suffering from asthma. People were very sick. There was a lawsuit that was brought. EPA supported it. Why? They had enforcement capability. Chevron's own records show that it simply did not use the pollution control technology that was required. There was not any new innovative technology. It was already approved. They agreed to a huge settlement, one of the biggest in history.…”