Barbara Boxer

And lastly, is it not true that we have a deficit reduction trust fund of about a trillion dollars as well?

It is the colloquy that I believe is important because my friend is so right. We approach the future with hope. We are not going to pull the covers over our heads. This is America. We need to lead, and we need to lead in technology. We…

I have to say it is amazing to me how a Senator from a place that is almost ground zero on global warming could stand up here and be so negative, very unlike his Governor.

No, it is fine. I say to Senator Warner, I believed we were slow-walking it only because we are so anxious to get to the amendments. But I hear what you are saying--if this is real. We are going to have some good debate today. This is the…

Colleagues, this is a very important vote. We already voted to level the playing field for America in that last vote so that countries cannot take advantage of us. But I have to say, this motion would hold this Nation hostage to China and…

The President says we should halt the growth of greenhouse gases by 2025--``halt the growth,'' which means 18 years of nothing. What a pathetic response to a crisis that has united evangelical groups, scientists, businesses, and much of…

This is a bill that overall creates not one more penny of new spending. It will unleash into our economy, however, a billion dollars already budgeted for. That is why so many people are supporting this in real life: Construction companies…

The House passed it 1 year ago, and we passed it in the committee in June 2007. This is not something that--this has been around. We have been asking Senator Reid. He wanted to bring it up, but it is getting caught up in other matters. It…

The organization that does the evaluation of our Nation's bridges, highways, and all of our byways, has run out of funds. The funds they had have been oversubscribed. What we do, without adding any new funds, is enable them to get funding…

Let's work together with this Committee. We are ready, willing and able to work with you on that.

I believe the public is really smart. And I believe moms and dads really understand what it means to drink safe water and water that makes them sick.

Unacceptable. That is not what the law requires of you.

I don't see anything happening. I don't. I don't see it.

Do you think our families have a right to know what is in their drinking water?

I agree with you, Dr. Hirsch, to be prudent is key here. And to be prudent is to protect our children and our pregnant women and to do the work that is necessary.

Your job is to protect human health at the beach, at the drinking water tap. It is not one or the other.

Have they made the documents public? It is my understanding they have made no documents public.

What reason would there be to not make those documents available to Senator Lautenberg, Senator Vitter and myself, Senator Klobuchar?

Do you think they should make their documents public, this working group, the Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Working Group?

I think it speaks for itself, with open checkbook for Iraq, open checkbook for them, but we can't find a few dollars here to protect the public from what could be a threat to pregnant women and children.

Then why is it that your budget slashed funding for EPA endocrine-disruptive chemical testing program that Dr. Hirsch said is so important?

Get together. Get together. After this AP story scared everybody, including you, you said you are concerned...

EPA has failed to require the needed testing to determine the effects of these chemicals at low levels.

EPA in particular has failed to adequately address this problem.

EPA now says it is not prepared to require drinking water systems to monitor for pharmaceuticals.