Barbara Boxer

I am pleased that the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Act has been included in the Senate amendment to H.R. 620. I, along with my colleague from California, Senator Feinstein, are the sponsors of the Senate companion measure, S…

I fully concur, and I thank my colleague for raising this issue. I would like to ask the chairman and ranking Democratic member whether they share our view that the designation of these areas as wilderness does not preclude their continued…

The State law will be overridden, my friend. And your State--and I know you and Senator Corzine are here to fight for your State. You fight for your State every single day. Right now, in this package, without one hearing, your State, if…

I send my deepest condolences to the family of Christopher Reeve, one of the bravest Americans, who fought so hard to prove that even with the most horrific injuries, one could still be involved in community life, and who dedicated himself…

I make that point. As I listened to my friend in his usual way of kind of tying together the pieces and as we get ready to watch our Presidential candidate tonight, I am wondering if my friend is beginning to see a pattern by this…

Wouldn't my friend agree that we are now saying to our first responders all across the country, regardless of where they are, whether they are in Oregon, whether they are in Mississippi, whether they are in Nevada, whether they are in New…

Almost three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, thousands of police and fire divisions in cities and counties across the USA still do not have coordinated communications capabilities. This unresolved national crisis--referred to as a…

Now is the time, if ever there were a time, to reflect on this policy. Now, President Bush says we are not turning back. One has to ask themselves: What does that mean? We are not turning back from what? We are not turning back from a war…

I am coming back here ready to work for as long as it takes to protect the American people, to do what we can about the health care crisis, Medicare, and the rest. How much we get done is going to be up to us. Of course, the leadership…

So when Senator Warner says essentially we need to go ahead because we are going to test this once they are deployed, what I hear my colleague saying the Pentagon told him, and they put it in writing, is because of safety concerns there…

We want operational testing. We want the tests to be done by the appropriate office. That is the purpose of the amendment. That is exactly what the generals are saying. That is what the admirals are saying.

On May 15, 2003, the Senate voted 75 to 25 for the Ensign-Boxer-Smith Invest in the USA Act. It was a very clear statement that we want to see job creation. What we are proposing is a 1-year only chance for corporations that have parked…

I hope we will vote against the Breaux-Feinstein amendment and once and for all make this important bill the law of the land.

I say to my friend, there are a series of amendments that are important to the working people of this country. Overtime--the Bush administration is trying to take away overtime--we want a vote on that. The unemployment insurance, which has…

Does the Senator not think it is an outrage? We work hard and we make a decent living. We get an automatic cost-of-living adjustment unless we stop it. Yet the same people who take a cost-of- living adjustment for themselves won't give a…

Our colleagues accept it. I do not know of anyone who does not accept the automatic adjustment in their pay.

The American people are for this. Does my friend agree the American people are fairminded and for this?

Then there is a recent letter of George Fisher, a tenured professor at Stanford, former prosecutor and expert on the criminal justice system. He, too, believes it makes things worse in terms of convicting a criminal.

That is right. You have the statutory protection, which they are now going to take away from these workers. They are taking it away and saying: Well, you can fix it with your collective bargaining.

If it was such a foregone conclusion that represented employees could negotiate and maintain overtime protections absent statutory and regulatory requirements, the law and regulations would never have been made applicable to any workers…

I read an economic report that said although the jobless rate is officially at 5.6 percent, if one factors in the people who have given up, it is well over 9 percent. I wonder if my friend could comment on that, because he talked about how…

She was right on target about this manufacturing czar, this potential nominee, who may be a very lovely gentleman; nonetheless, what a poor choice. We should be rewarding people and companies that create jobs for the American people. You…

When this gentleman moves his jobs to China, does he not get a tax advantage? And are we not closing that loophole--it is the Dorgan idea--and does my friend support that, as well as the other items on this list?

When my friend goes home to New Jersey and talks to people, does he find what I find; that people are anxious, they are insecure, they are concerned about retaining their job, retaining a good job, retaining health benefits? What I find…

Clearly, we give tax breaks in this amendment to small businesses that pay or help pay for their employees' health benefits. When we talk to people, they are scared about the cost of health insurance. They are frightened. They are…