Barbara Boxer

This oversight hearing is going to focus on the critically important Renewable Fuels Standard Program and EPA's recent 2014 renewable fuel volumes.

Let us not turn our back on a way to make sure that we can become more energy independent and have a better environment in the long run.

Tens of billions of dollars have been invested with the expectation that Congress will not change the rules in the middle of the game.

If this country is going to lead the world in innovation, create new jobs, further reduce dependence on foreign oil and mitigate climate change emissions, it must reject backward thinking and move forward.

Lowering renewable fuel targets will jeopardize years of progress in the biofuels industry.

We changed the time, I really appreciate everybody's cooperation, out of respect for a memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

We commend Senator Boxer for introducing this legislation.

CEMEX is grateful for the tremendous efforts of Senator Boxer and Senator Feinstein in seeking to craft legislation.

We are grateful to Sen. Barbara Boxer for authoring S. 771 and to Sen. Dianne Feinstein for supporting it.

S. 771 is important legislation needed to resolve a regional land use conflict that has existed within Los Angeles County for almost two decades.

In 2004, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) first addressed the dispute legislatively by introducing S. 2058, which terminated the two federal mining contracts, but did not provide compensation for CEMEX.

The bill authored by Senator Boxer and Senator Feinstein facilitates the protection of important and potentially irreplaceable natural resources while providing for fair and appropriate compensation for the contract holder.

During each of the last three sessions of Congress, Senator Boxer has introduced legislation to resolve the dispute between the City of Santa Clarita and CEMEX.

CEMEX believes some reasonable concerns remain with S. 771, which need to be addressed.

S. 771, sponsored by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), provides a reasoned solution to a difficult dispute that is now in its fourteenth year.

The federal government should not allow this mine to be developed.

The rapidly changing dynamics of this community no longer make this area conducive to a large mining operation.

This bill does just that--and I believe it will bring a satisfactory conclusion to this issue.

Since 2004, Senator Boxer and I have been working with the City of Santa Clarita and CEMEX USA to find an appropriate balance to this complex issue.

My constituents are concerned that going forward with the mine would affect their quality of life.

We are all united--the State of California, the city of Santa Clarita, Buck and I--that we need to fix this problem.

This bill is a reasonable compromise that solves a difficult problem.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:41 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at 10 a.m…

Five seconds. I hope we get these two wonderful nominees on the way to confirmation today. I hope we will be patient and that we will all work together to fix the problems with health care. I think, at the end of the day, it is going to be…

I hope we have a resounding vote for Mel Watt. He is a terrific person. He has the heart, intelligence, and the experience.