Barbara Boxer

California's loss is the Country's gain.

I must thank Senator Inhofe and my Republican colleagues for allowing us to go this way.

We want you to do this work. We don't want to put it into the political realm.

Will you commit to address the threat posed by chromium-6 through the drinking water laws as quickly as possible?

This is about the Office of Children's Health. They have been undercut and underfunded in their mission to protect children's health.

Do I have your commitment that EPA will follow the letter of the law that Congress enacted to protect people from intentional testing?

We need EPA to enact rules, using the highest standards of ethical protections in pesticide studies.

I believe very strongly that EPA should do everything in its power to protect children from dangerous exposure to toxic pesticides.

This is intolerable not only to me, but to many in the Senate.

One of the things I often say, children are not little adults. They are growing, they are changing, and we need to treat them differently.

Do you commit to us to immediately review this failure to establish a drinking water standard for perchlorate and act to address the threat to pregnant women and children caused by this dangerous toxin?

When you say science and the rule of law, it sounds funny that it would be such music to our ears.

I think we have to do that, otherwise we have paralysis.

I think it would be a very good thing. Because President-elect Obama has, I would say, re-ordered the system here by bringing in a Carol Browner, who used to be the head of EPA, who understands it, and by I think elevating, and if I just…

Of course, for me, it is not as complicated as it sounds, because you have a clear mission to protect the health of the people.

I am a mother of a son with asthma. My youngest son spent his first Christmas in the hospital with asthma.

I just want to correct the record on something you said about the waiver.

80 percent of this Country are much more worried about the fact that we have done nothing on CO2.

Science, science, science and the rule of law.

As Senator Baucus talked about, making an assessment of how bad are things.

My understanding is, Congressman Rahall is looking at regulating it under the Mining Act. That to me is unnecessary.

If we are not satisfied with action, we may move legislatively.

I want to make the point that some of us are going to introduce, I know Senator Carper is going to have authority in his subcommittee over TVA.

EPA has the authority to act to address the serious threats posed by the virtually unregulated State of coal ash and coal combustion waste sites.

There are so many things to do. But I just think something like that, where the impacts are on our kids, and it is 34 States involved.