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Barbara Boxer is a former United States Senator from California, serving from January 5, 1993, to January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 3, 1983, to January 5, 1993. Throughout her political career, Boxer was known for her strong advocacy on environmental issues, women's rights, and healthcare reform. She played a significant role in various legislative efforts, including those aimed at addressing climate change and protecting public health.
I will vote in favor of S.J. Res. 33, a resolution which disapproves of the President's decision to grant conditional clemency for certain individuals who were convicted of crimes related to the activities of the Armed Forces for National…
This is the fourth time this amendment has come before the body. I have to say to my friend, I don't think it has ever gotten the attention it needs. To come in and say it is a baseless debate, when we are talking about as much as $66…
Yes. This is the fourth time that this Interior Department ``fix'' to ensure fair royalty payments has been stopped in its tracks, unless we defeat the Hutchison amendment.
This is an example of legislating on an appropriations bill. This Hutchison amendment was put into the committee and stripped out because of the way it was put into the committee. It was stripped out. It has been defined and technically…
He would not allow that. He would probably evict you. Yet what do we have here in this Senate. We have Senators standing up condoning this kind of behavior.
They are basing their royalty payment on a price that is not reflective of the fair market value. It is a price they made up. It is as if one day you woke up and let's say you paid rent, which my friend probably does here in Washington…
Under oath, penalty of perjury, that while he was secretary of ARCO's crude pricing committee, the major's posted prices were far below the market value.
The article that I quoted is Platt's Oilgram News--an oil industry newsletter. In fact, my colleague is right, they talk about a court case in which a retired Atlantic Richfield employee admitted in court----
My friend is correct. To be very specific, I will tell the Senator, the oil companies that are being so defended here have agreed in court to pay up not $1 billion, not $2 billion, but $5 billion to these States; in essence, agreeing that…
Absolutely. In other words, if there is oil being drilled in Texas, it is on Federal lands, but the Federal lands are within Texas. Texas gets 50 percent of the royalty payment. I know in California, it is 50 percent if it is onshore and…
I say to my friend, I can put it in specific dollars. Already the Hutchison amendment, since she first offered it and our colleagues backed her on it, has lost taxpayers $88 million, and if she succeeds in this, although Senator Hutchison…
These are private oil companies that have signed an agreement with the Federal Government to pay the royalty payment based on the fair market value when they drill on land that is owned by the people of the United States of America.
I add my voice in praising Senator Feingold for his leadership in the Foreign Relations Committee, on which I serve, on this whole issue of East Timor. There are some things we can do very quickly in the Senate to send a message to…
I thought his comments were very poignant, and what he is addressing is some of the unfinished business of this body, things we have to take care of. Certainly one of them is the problems of the family farmer.
I want to make the point of my friend that we have a situation that this additive was to clean the air, and now we find out it is poisoning the water, and we cannot get it out of the drinking water. The more we let this thing go, without…
I just want to make sure my chairman, who I absolutely revere, has read that we do not say ``ban.'' We say ``phase out.'' That is a big difference. We phase it out so you make sure you are doing it in a wise fashion. That is exactly what…
Let me strongly disagree with my friend from Oklahoma. I am merely quoting him. I would be happy to ask the Chair to have read back his exact quote. He said abortion is not a fringe benefit. It is taking the life of an unborn child…
If you heard the Senator from Oklahoma, you heard it right. He says abortion is not a health fringe benefit. He says it is taking the life of an unborn child. In other words, in his opinion it is murder.
I know, and I am just completely astounded. I have to believe the people who vote against this amendment may not want to be around here on January 3, or whenever it is we get back. People are going to be calling. They are going to say: We…
The bottom line is, if we do not adopt this Boxer amendment, then what is in this bill to encourage fixing the problem? This is ironic, because the idea is to stop the litigation, fix the problem, have a cooling off period where we…
Right? Now they qualify for the special protections under this law. They do not have to fix it. They certainly do not have to fix it for free.
If they fix it, they can charge more than what the computer costs. My friend has proof of that; does he not?
The proposal I had in the form of this amendment was taken almost verbatim from a bill that was offered by two Republican House Members, Chris Cox and David Dreier, very good friends of the business community. The concept for my amendment…
I say to my friends, that is so true. If you look at the number of lawsuits that are out there, the big explosion, and there has been one, has been business suing business. It is not the individual, and it is not the small guy, because it…
Absolutely. I think this argument has not been made before. Something was troubling me, as I listened to the debate, because it seemed to me that the implied sense around here is that somehow this wonderful industry can't stand up to this…
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