Barbara Boxer

I rise to thank Senator Ensign for his leadership on the Invest in the USA Act. As we said earlier, this infusion of cash will provide an immediate and much needed boost to the economy. Over the next year, it is estimated that this…

We cannot let this happen.

If Congress goes along with the Administration's proposed funding cut, 570,000 kids already in programs will be turned out onto the streets.

Young people need someone to look up to and someone to help them. I want to give them what people gave to me.

I want to work with you on this.

It seems like an anomaly to me, Mr. Chairman, that while the administration is working hard to give this message to parents, how important it is they know where their kids are; on the other hand, we are looking at deep cuts in after-school.

The Bush proposal, as you noted, would take this down a huge amount, 40 percent. That means the number of children kicked out of the program, 570,000.

I want to start off by thanking you, because for the last 7 years you have worked with me and others in a bipartisan way.

What happened at that time was this threat had been rising and the administration took action since the time of the study that said to all the big airports around the country, national guardsmen will protect against this threat. Chairman…

This is an amendment that is going to spend $30 million for deployment of technology when we do not even know if that technology exists, and if it does, if that is the best technology. So that is why I am in opposition to the amendment.

In chapter 6 of title I, add at the end the following: GENERAL PROVISIONS, THIS CHAPTER Sec. 601. Of the amounts appropriated by this chapter under the heading "Departmental Management" under the heading "counterterrorism fund"…

I pray that this war ends soon. I pray that we don't see more of these deaths and casualties and POWs. I pray that the POWs are treated right--they must be treated right according to the Geneva Conventions-- that we find out more about…

I would like to see them do that in this country.

What countries have offered to give us hard cash in this effort?

I could not agree more. I want to have more of a U.N. role right now.

What about, the budget in 2004 has nothing for rebuilding Iraq.

Let's do everything we can for our troops and everything we can to protect our homeland. And let us all pray for our men and women in uniform, and for their families, and for wisdom for all those who send them forward into battle.

I have been to Alaska and I am going back. I haven't been to the 1002 area, but my chief environmental legislative aide took my place on a trip that, unfortunately, I had to cancel 6 months ago, and just said it was absolutely exquisite…

I will talk about this budget overall because I listened to my colleague talk about it in a way that, frankly, is stunning because I remember when Republicans wanted a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. Now they are embracing…

I wonder if the Senator had seen this chart which shows by the year 2030 how much energy is yielded by these various factors. This would be how much energy we would get from the Arctic Refuge production, 2.38 billion barrels of oil. If we…

We can have the untouched sublime wilderness. Or we can have oil field development. But we cannot have both. Opening the coastal plain for oil exploration and development would be, despite all the much-vaunted technological promises…

I close the debate the way I started it and leave it to my good friend to wrap things up. This is what we are talking about. No one could make this up: The polar bear; the muskoxen. Look at this; this is called the chart bird, so we have…

I appreciate that. I have two questions for the Senator. Is the Senator aware that 78,000 women a year around the world die of illegal abortions? And since he stated that the other figure I put out is false, I went back and got the World…

Absolutely. I think people are horrified at the thought that a Senator would make such a personal, private decision. Our colleague from Pennsylvania wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned, and that is exactly what would happen. Government…

I assume overwhelmingly the people of this country support Roe because it is a moderate decision, a moderate mainstream decision.