Barbara Boxer

I want to say, we will as well. So I think this is, we are ready to go. We are very close to being ready to go.

I think that is what we need right now. None of us is ideological about all this. We just want to be pragmatic and get this to happen.

I think it is important that so many people came here... We want to get this job done.

This level of funding for highways in an economic stimulus bill is unacceptable, as it largely ignores the immediate job creation and economic growth associated with infrastructure investment.

I like the stream of funding that goes into the Highway Trust Fund.

We can't do our share with an ever-dwindling Highway Trust Fund.

President Obama at first in the budget took this whole trust fund idea and basically said it is not working.

We continue to hear loud and clear that the need for investment is great.

This is something we can get done, but nothing should be off the table, even if at first blush, you know, we reject it.

I hope the Administration is open to working with us on every possible idea.

We have to in the United States get our act together and address infrastructure in a big way.

It is important to note that the $27.5 billion for highways in stimulus is no way a substitute for the hundreds of billions needed to address our Nation's infrastructure crisis.

The funding provided in H.R. 1 was a good start, but certainly not enough.

The current legislation, SAFETEA-LU, will expire on September 30, 2009.

We must have continued investment to maintain these jobs and make additional needed improvements to our infrastructure.

We cannot walk away from it because we would be walking away from the future.

I would encourage President Obama to prioritize the transportation needs of this Country.

I'm proud to be here today to support Governor Gary Locke in his nomination to be Secretary of Commerce.

And we have been challenged by our President. I couldn't be more proud of this Committee.

We are going to have that choice between my colleagues who say, do nothing, the party of nope, versus do something, the party of hope.

I could tell you in California, this is important, that the preliminary analysis from our bill there addressing global warming is going to avoid 400 premature deaths, 11,000 incidences of asthma and lower respiratory symptoms and 67,000…

I feel this is really the most extraordinary argument I have ever heard, that we could go back to the times that were so long ago and everything would be fine.

You had seven. You had seven when we started. So you are out of time.

If we decide that more and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is fine and it was just great 50 million years ago, when there was three to four times as much, I mean, if we decide that, and we don't mind that things changed dramatically…

No, Senator Boxer. The combination of rising CO2 and the associated earth system changes, such as warmer temperatures, will have a range of impacts on health, as I described earlier.