Barbara Boxer

We would be making a huge mistake if we put progress on pause.

Senator Baucus is right. This is so critical. We cannot afford to pass up this opportunity. We need a multi-year bill.

The impact would have been, the construction industry would have laid off people sooner.

There is way too much red tape from conception to actually building a road. Delays caused by various mandated studies can take up to 10 years.

We can't let that happen.

The verve will continue, yes, the bipartisan verve.

Does not interfere with the ability of the EPA and the states to act in accordance with the law to respond to what the scientists are telling us.

I have had opportunities, as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee in particular, to ask national security experts what keeps them up at night, what is the one thing they worry about. Whether it comes from the CIA or any other place…

This extension will save jobs not only in the short term, but it gives certainty to our States. We know our Nation's highways, bridges, and transit systems need to be in good repair. I will say this: With the construction industry still in…

Since August 5, 52 more California-connected servicemembers have died in Afghanistan, and 2 more have died in Iraq.

I need to repeat that. Because of their concern for those 315,000, out of 307 million Americans, who earn over $1 million a year, the Republicans, to a person, stopped a tax cut for 99.9 percent of the American people. I cannot tell my…

I just want the Senator to understand this extension is not for anything beyond 99 weeks. Believe me. It is up to 99 weeks. We do not have any extension beyond 99 weeks.

Absolutely, I would not agree to that modification. It goes to the very point I was making. They want to give tax breaks to millionaires and not pay for it, but they are forcing cuts in other jobs programs here. It would only make a worse…

I would have voted a very strong no because I believe that authority should remain with the elected representatives and not go to bureaucrats.

I'm actually wondering if the 10-percent factor--10 percent of the time that the brakes don't work--doesn't weigh heavily on McDonald's.

To me, what's going on out there, these are sham policies. They're shams.

I think it would be really important.

We passed that bill, so we could insure 32 million uninsured Americans, which would reduce the need for uncompensated care, which would allow premiums for other people to go down.

When you buy a policy that has a $20,000 cap, and it turns out that's divided into different categories, to me that's a sham.

One of the reasons we acted on health reform is that, if you look at all the bankruptcies, more than 60 percent of them were related to a healthcare crisis.

I'm going to start with Aetna, and I'm going to take a look at the way this policy was sold to you.

I would call on Aetna Insurance and your company to make it up to you.

I can't legislate morality, but I'm just saying to you, the fact that, essentially, you pick up 70 or 80 percent for your higher-income workers, and 10 to 20 percent for your lowest workers, I think you ought to take a look at that.

And if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn't happened yet. It won't happen in the future.

What percentage do you pay?