Barbara Boxer

I am going to give you and my colleagues in the U.S. Senate an opportunity to cut funding...and take those funds away from traveling bureaucrats and put them into after-school programs. I think if we ask ourselves the question right now…

I would add that the American Bankers Association, to its credit, has said that, despite the Court's ruling, it has no intention of trying to force credit union members who currently belong to multiple-employer group credit unions to…

I was saying the other day we want our kids to learn about gravity by reading about it in the science book, not by having the ceiling falling on them while sitting in the classroom. If everybody is saying children are our priority…

I thank my friend, Chairman Stevens, for his continued leadership. His assistance is greatly appreciated. These funds are very important to California and to those serving our nation in the Armed Forces.

I want to say to you again, I know you have been very fair as I presented the case to you, this is a woman that every single Senator should be proud to support today. It is not a matter of political party. This is a woman uniquely…

To me it is, in a way, a moving moment. So often we stand on the floor and we talk about delays and so on and so forth. But when you put the human face on this issue and you have a woman and her husband and her son and a law firm that was…

This is a forest bill that is very controversial. After I placed my name on it a study came out that basically, in my opinion, led me to believe that the bill in its current form would not be good for the Nation's forests.

I say to Chairman Stevens and I know the ranking member, Senator Byrd, and to the Senator from Vermont, thank you for working so hard on this international family planning issue. The Senator is so correct when he says that the Senate has…

So when we look at the issue of trade, there are some who say the most important thing is the efficient flow of capital. Capital will flow to the low-wage countries, and that is the only thing we should be concerned about. But it seems to…

Absolutely, and testing. We support, you and I, this voluntary national testing. It is interesting, some of the people who are the strongest supporters of giving back to these private schools are fighting against testing. They don't want…

Absolutely. I am talking about quality schools for 100 percent of the children, and I think the chart behind the Senator from Massachusetts explains the situation: Restructure the whole school; foster world-class instruction; extend the…

One quick point is the tobacco companies have increased their contributions to colleagues so they will not support you, and I hope we overcome that this time.

As the Senator knows, the advanced technology transit bus [ATTB] under development in California has the potential to be the next-generation urban transit bus. It has already demonstrated its ability to provide maintenance savings…

I would like to inform the leader that I think there is a real great opportunity to resolve this problem. Senator John Kerry has great interest in it. I have been working with Senator Smith and Senator Biden, and many other Senators. We…

My colleagues, last year corporate executives got paid millions of dollars each from taxpayers. One got $4 million, according to a scandalous GAO report--all this, while we thought we had a cap in place. It didn't work, and the…

The cap in the committee bill is so full of loopholes, it is not going to work, just like the last one did not. People brought down $4 million from Federal taxpayers in 1 year. Support the Boxer-Grassley amendment. Let us do what we said…

I would like to say to my friend that I really appreciate his coming up with those charts because taxpayers thought a year ago that all this was taken care of. They honestly thought a $250,000 cap would work. Now we see executives making…

I am troubled by the committee suggesting that their new policy would cap pay at $350,000. I understand that my colleague has a chart which shows different analyses of that, because I greatly question it. Last year, we thought we were…

I say to my colleague, I have visited companies all over California, many of whom do nearly 90 percent of their work with the Federal Government, but that is their option, just as it is the option of someone who works for the Federal…

Limited to receive in 1 year the amount that the President of the United States receives from taxpayers, but it could be unlimited if they have private sector work. We do not take on their entire pay. That is up to the shareholders of the…

We are capping the amount of Federal taxpayer payments to one individual, to that of the President of the United States, that is correct.

Let me just say, since it is a $200,000 cap, it is hard to imagine line workers making that much, but it affects anyone who is working for the Federal Government as a contractor.

Let us not slap the women in the military. Let us support the Murray-Snowe amendment.

I want to thank both of the Senators for their time to discuss the Bay-Delta project and, for their support as fellow members of the Appropriations Committee, for the President's request for funding the program in fiscal year 1998.

Let me first ask my friend and State neighbor, Senator Reid, to recall the provision in last year's omnibus appropriations bill, that authorized the California Bay-Delta Environmental Enhancement and Water Security Act. The Act authorizes…