Barbara Boxer

I say that we need to listen to these women. I say that we need to listen to these doctors. I say that the doctors who work with this every day of their lives know best. And I hope we will vote against the Santorum bill.

The Daschle amendment narrows the definition of health to such a degree that in practice it would lead to physical and mental harm to women in emergency situations. I believe the amendment is inconsistent with Supreme Court decisions on…

Thank you, that is very nice of you. I would say the one thing that broke my heart today was when the Senator from Pennsylvania said, ``How could someone kill their son or daughter.'' They are talking about these women, these women who…

Does the legislation modify in any way the responsibilities of adult prisons to prisoners with disabilities under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or the Americans With Disabilities Act?

I believe strongly that this mandate is wrong. I introduced legislation last week, S. 702, which would amend IDEA to exempt people convicted as adults and incarcerated in adult prisons. This issue is particularly important to the State of…

In the State of California, approximately one-fourth of 1 percent of all people eligible for special education are convicted of felonies as adults and incarcerated in adult prisons. It is my understanding that under this bill, if…

The President will look at this and say, I am not going to hurt the American people. We have just signed a budget deal. It allows us to do some wonderful things. It seems to him, I am sure, that it is not in very good faith to have this…

No, absolutely not. Maybe the Senator has forgotten, we had an election, and this President won. Do you know what the election was about? It was about how much you ought to cut Medicare, how much you ought to spend on the environment, how…

Put this 2-percent solution on the table and indicate to the President that there will not be severe cuts in education, the environment, in crime, in health research, that is simply not true. As a matter of fact, our analysis that we have…

It only happened one time when this Congress was put in the hands of her party. And I would just like to say to my friend, who is my friend--and we do work on other things together; I am very happy about that--that on this matter it is…

Does the Senator know how many times in the 200-year history of America the U.S. Government has shut down for an extended period of time?

I think that has to be put into context that every Senator is sent here primarily to represent his or her constituency in his or her own State. I don't think the majority leader would suggest that Senators do not have the right to protect…

Exactly. I would say to my friend that you have to learn from history. If we can't learn from history, we are doomed to fail the people. Some of us have heard about these depressions from our parents. Look at the Senator's chart. We can…

13 dedicated people are leaving the U.S. Senate this year. Each of them will leave a mark on this institution. Each has contributed to its accomplishments. Each has been an able and honorable representative of his or her State. I count…

To my knowledge, not one of these women who has come forward to tell her story has shared her medical records detailing one of the greatest tragedies that her family has ever faced with anyone other than her family, her God, and her own…

Thank you, Madam President. Not one of these women who have courageously come forward to tell her story----

And I say to my friend, his participation in this debate is welcome. It is a welcome part of this debate, because he went through the trauma that these women have gone through, as far as being in a family where such a circumstance…

I hope that at the end when we count the votes we will stand with the women, with the families, with compassion, and sustain our President's veto.

I say to my colleague, I know that the Democratic leader and the majority leader have talked about this. I know from him that it would not be acceptable, because as Senator Dole came here for a meeting with Republican colleagues of the…

Maureen found out that her baby had no brain. She is a practicing Catholic, and she went to her priest, Father Greg. On the record he supported her decision to terminate the pregnancy. They named their daughter Dahlia. She had a Catholic…

Well, the Senator clearly does not understand the Supreme Court decision of Roe versus Wade, which I strongly support, and I daresay the majority of Senators and the majority of the American people support. That is, a woman has the right…

My colleague keeps reiterating, as do my other colleagues on the other side, that this is about Federal funds and people oppose spending Federal funds. Would my friend support an amendment that said that women Federal employees who do, in…

I think this points out for all the American people to see that this is not about Federal funds, because I just made a very reasonable proposal that since women pay approximately 28 percent of their premiums out of their own pocket, why…

The vast majority of plans do offer abortion, and in the private sector most women have the opportunity to find a plan that would, in fact, cover that if they so chose. Whereas in this particular amendment we are saying no one, no one who…

I know that she shares my view that the NSF is a very important agency and that this procurement is very important both for NCAR and the U.S. supercomputer industry.