Barbara Boxer

Climate change and our dependence on foreign oil are a significant threat to our national security.

America and the world are waiting to hear from the U.S. Senate.

Our security, our leadership, and our economic future are at stake.

The science is more urgent than ever.

I respect that there is a lot of passion on all sides of these issues.

To the credit of George Herbert Walker Bush, he decided to do it.

I think we have to believe in America's technology ability. I do.

I respect the passion on this committee. I am happy to answer any questions.

America's leadership is significantly on the line here.

This is going to cost us lives. It is going to cost us the deployment of the American military...

If we think that it is good for America to send $400 billion a year to other countries... we are crazy.

Positive change only comes with courage.

I want to welcome my partner in writing this bill, Senator John Kerry.

We will hear from 54 witnesses on 9 separate panels.

We are going to just have them have to delay their opening statement so we can keep the flow of this going.

The committee will come to order.

Senator Barbara Boxer and Melanne Verveer, the U.S. Ambassador at Large for Global Women's Issues, were among those who participated.

If impregnating a 12-year-old is not an act of violence against a child, I don't know what is.

This issue of violence against women worldwide, it really turns into a national security issue for us.

Your agreeing to broaden the subcommittee to look at this was so important, and I think Ambassador Verveer really took what you did seriously.

But what I do not support--and I say this is in the strongest possible terms--is a single dollar going to enrich the Burmese junta.

The junta went so far as to significantly delay the delivery of humanitarian assistance in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.

I support engagement with the Burmese Government, because I agree with Secretary Clinton that sanctions alone 'have not produced the results that had been hoped for on behalf of the people of Burma.'

We shouldn't fear the future, because the future, if we do this right, as our President has said, if we do this reform right, we will see a whole new platform for economic growth going out into this century.

I hope you will work with us, sir, rather than just stand out there and say no to everything.