Barbara Boxer

What I said was your support was not enthusiastic, but I appreciate it nonetheless. I wanted to answer your point that you were worried about how to collect this information. I want to tell you that our States have very clearly…

Yes, I wish to address a couple of questions to my friend, Senator Bingaman. First, I thank you so much for bringing this amendment to the floor. We have a situation where President Bush is in Africa. I want to make sure I am right on how…

We want to really make sure that the American people are not--we always get back to this--deprived of a diversity of voices, be it political voices, music voices, all voices.

I think it is important, Mr. Chairman, as we go along to recognize that.

I would argue that when people were blacklisted in the fifties the movie industry will tell you that it was for business purposes.

I would also argue that when you lead a rally, encourage people to bring CDs of a particular group because of what they said, and stand there and roll over these CDs, that I would argue on its face that seems way over the line to me.

I think that America really loses out when the new voices are not heard.

Thanks so much, Mr. Chairman, for this hearing and for your leadership of this Committee.

I think it does send a chilling message, and I think you are fooling yourself or you are not looking at what you did.

He has a right to say that.

When Rush Limbaugh calls women members of the Senate 'femi-Nazis,' it is a hue and cry among certain people who take great offense at that.

But it was not good business for you to play the Dixie Chicks, right?

I think that you are not understanding the bigger picture, so let me try another way.

Even if they said, we do not want to hear this candidate because we think he or she is quite offensive?

When I heard about what had happened to the Dixie Chicks, I was literally stunned.

Americans were punished in the fifties and in Hollywood it was called 'blacklisting.'

I think it is so important and is very much related to how much power an individual network has to reach Americans.

I am pleased to say that the Boxer-Lugar-Cantwell amendment, which encourages production of agricultural residue ethanol, is going to be accepted by a voice vote with a promise to fight for it in conference. Our amendment says that if you…

I want to make sure Senators understand exactly what we do. We increase the credit to 2.5 gallons if the ethanol is made from agricultural residue. It is giving an incentive to our farmers who produce rice, wheat, barley, oats, sugar…

This chart shows the congressional notification of this contract. The light of day never came to this until way after it was issued. Now we finally got it after the fifth task order. Estimated value, $7 billion. They called it a bridge…

I say to my friend, it is very unusual. When we ask them, they say: We are just going to use this contract to put out the fires. Then it turned out, thank God, there were not that many fires; and we thought, OK, fine, it was a sole source.

I think my friend, a very successful businessman, has put his finger on it: It is business unusual.

If Halliburton or subsidiaries wish to do more work in Iraq, let them stand shoulder to shoulder, toe to toe with every other company in this country. I have heard from so many businesspeople who are outraged at this. That is why the…

That is all I am doing. I say to my friend, I can tell from the sound of his voice, he is a little incredulous that this has not been accepted by the other side. This is such a simple, straightforward commonsense kind of approach. We are…

Absolutely. My particular amendment that will be voted on is more than a sense of the Senate. It is a sense of the Senate plus it is a requirement that if the Department of Defense does not meet its own stated goal of having a fully…