Barbara Boxer

I look forward to moving forward together on a Water Resources Development Act that ensures progress on important projects and programs that create jobs, support commerce and promote recovery and long-term prosperity.

I look forward to working with Senator Inhofe and all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to move forward with the WRDA bill this year.

The U.S. Army Corps estimates that every $1 billion in Federal investment in water resource projects creates approximately 26,000 jobs.

As Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, job creation is a top priority.

I am very pleased they have backed down in terms of their objection because we want to get to this bill. Many of us have ways we feel it can be made stronger. I bet there will be some amendments to make it weaker. And that is what the…

I support the recent actions by both the Senate and House of Representatives to suspend the 2011 cost of living adjustment for Members of Congress. Although there has been encouraging news on some sectors of our economy, too many…

Unfortunately, as reported by the National Research Council today, adding so much carbon dioxide to the ocean has caused its pH to decrease by a tenth of a unit since the beginning of the industrial revolution.

We have to act. And it's very fitting that, on this day, Earth Day, we're discussing ocean acidification.

About one-third of the carbon dioxide we have emitted into the atmosphere has been drawn down into the ocean.

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for holding this hearing--fittingly, on Earth Day--to discuss ocean acidification.

Senator Barbara Boxer has requested a hearing on Senate Bill 1596.

Your efforts are critical to this important site and will mean so much to Japanese-Americans, as well as Japanese culture worldwide.

I think the American people have appreciated the FDIC over the years, because the FDIC was another way for taxpayers to be kept out of a problem, because it is an insurance fund. The banks are taxed and they put the money into the fund…

Further, my understanding is, if an institution gets in trouble, they are going to go down. They are not going to be revived.

We really appreciate that. But bigger trucks are also a threat to pedestrians and bicyclists.

The larger the truck, obviously, it is a threat to every car on the road as well, if there is an impact.

Well, thank you very much for that very convincing statement.

Some of them are more preventable than others.

Hopefully, California will then turn that into an all-offender law for the State.

So it seems to me, and the reason I feel we need to move in all the States is, why should a person in one State have a greater chance of losing her husband, I use that as an example, than a person in another State, when we are one Nation…

Thank you so much, just for your courage and turning your life into something so positive.

We are going to ask you to work with us on lots of different sections, but that is one we really care about.

I think what is good news is that we have seen tremendous cooperation on the safety part of this bill.

The next Surface Transportation Authorization, MAP-21, will give us the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to safety.

We have to do more to make our highways safer.