Barbara Boxer

But coal ash contaminates groundwater across the Country.

Would you please provide a list to Senator Carper's subcommittee and to the full Committee of all potential or known weaknesses at other impoundment or landfills?

That is, Senator, really unfortunate, that TVA took a week before they said, stay out of it.

Today I call on your Committee at a minimum to require the orderly phase-out of all wet storage of this toxic ash.

We want to work with you. But you have got to clean up your act there, literally.

We want to be the leader.

I would like to take a moment to say that our thoughts go out to all the people affected by the spill.

That is not cleanup, just leaving the stuff there, in my opinion.

I hope you will go back and show me this.

I am talking about the--I mean, that is wonderful and we all applaud that and we want you to do that.

The testing is not showing that everything is golden in any way, shape or form. These are serious problems.

I think that is very key. So one of your key demands, then, in speaking for the community, is to fully characterize what is in this muck.

It is outrageous that landfills that hold our household garbage are more regulated than pits holding this toxic coal sludge.

If I was sitting there and somebody said do you wish you would have done more to stop this, I would say yes.

We fight like the devil, and I come from a very crowded State, New Jersey, and boy, these chemicals are chased down like the most ruthless bandits.

You need to have a plan to clean this up.

But you have got big problems. And I get back to what Senator Carper said, we want to work with you.

But the point is, given the facility's high volume of waste, do you agree it makes sense to invest in strong waste management practices?

Voting against this bailout was playing what she said was Russian roulette with the recession.

We played Russian roulette tonight. We don't know what's going to happen. But we do know that Hank Paulson can save these jobs.

These infrastructure jobs aren't make-work jobs. They are important work jobs; work that has to be done.

We have learned that they have 68 million acres of leases, both onshore and offshore, and they are not drilling. They are holding those, I believe, for speculative purposes. Now the President announces--even without them lifting a finger…

In a minute or less, I am rather stunned to hear that the Republican leader is suggesting that Republican Senators vote no to move to a bill for the purpose of making improvements in Medicare. I ask my friend, because people sometimes lose…

The time is now to move forward and deal with global warming, and I urge my colleagues to vote for cloture. The scientific consensus is clear: strong and swift action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is needed to prevent catastrophic…

I wish to make that point because I resent the Senator from Tennessee saying our bill is a slush fund.