Barbara Boxer

I thank the ranking member on the Budget Committee. I know he has a lot on his plate. He and I work well together, and I thank him. Mr. President, I want to put on the Record my strong support for Congressman Mel Watt to be Director of the…

The VFW agrees in principle with Sen. Boxer on this legislation, which seeks to ensure that veterans cannot be duped by bad actors in higher education.

There are many legitimate not-for-profit and for-profit institutions of higher learning that are committed helping their students acquire a decent education and/or training that will be immediately marketable.

S. 1211 would prohibit the use of the phrases 'GI Bill' and 'Post-9/11 GI Bill' to give a false impression of approval or endorsement by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

When you start acting like you're committing domestic abuse, you've got a problem.

At noon tomorrow there will be a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S. 1569, the debt limit legislation. ____________________

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 7:13 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, October 8, 2013, at 10 a.m…

My question to my friend is: Is it not critical that we avert a government shutdown? Because if we go into a shutdown phase, people who want to apply for help--businesses and all the rest--are going to be experiencing far more pain. This…

We have to get this done.

Your question is important, sustaining the current levels for actually moving forward.

If it is not solved, we are really talking about... millions of jobs.

They want to see a user fee... That is not the consensus of the group.

To me, failure is not an option, period. This is on our backs. This is our responsibility.

I wanted to point out, because of our work together, all of us, on TIFIA, we had a way that was able to dramatically leverage existing funds.

We have a responsibility to get this right for the entire country.

This is our moment in this Committee. What we do now is going to be critical.

If we fail on this, this is our moment in the sun or in the darkness, to be honest.

I want to point out that with the current Highway Trust Fund, it will be empty, completely empty, by 2015.

I am so proud of members on both sides, by the way.

This has been a very important bipartisan statement of support for making sure that we invigorate the Highway Trust Fund and we have to do it in a smart way.

I think this is very important, so we will put those in the record and we will get started with you, Dr. Ruane.

We need to do something like that.

If things are worth having they are worth paying for.

If we can't move people and goods, our economy isn't going to keep up with the rest of the world.

We need your leadership to achieve a long-term revenue solution for the Highway Trust Fund, which will help grow the economy, create jobs and improve the quality of life for all Americans.