Barbara Boxer

Transportation projects take too long to be completed, years and years and years.

I think early coordination is critical.

The House can't manage that. They can't legislative, it doesn't seem, on anything except to repeal Obamacare 40-plus times.

We don't have the votes for carbon tax or carbon fee.

I, myself, met with the Russian Ambassador several times on this matter, and I knew right away, a long time ago, they were going to do nothing to help us.

In this case, the President has been clear: No ground invasion. No occupation.

This is a false comparison. In Iraq, the Bush administration was trying to prove the existence of an active weapons of mass destruction program in a country where such a program did not exist.

Failure to act could give license to the Syrian President to use these weapons again and send a terrible signal to other brutal regimes like North Korea.

The failure to act, I think, gives license to the Syrian President to use these weapons again.

It is not an open-ended vote and it is something that she thinks is very necessary.

Thank you, Chairman Murray and Chairman Mikulski, for explaining that this legislation will allow California high-speed rail to move forward.

I would argue that the more confidence people have in what is on the shelf, the better off you are.

American families are counting on Congress to address those deficiencies with an all of the above approach that protects people nationwide from toxic chemicals.

I hope we coalesce around a strong, bipartisan, good faith product that will pass into law.

I want a bill, and Senator Vitter, I hope we will get there.

Are you familiar with a story in the Chicago Tribune that said it is a front group for industry?

We need to add children to the risk section, we need to protect States' rights, we need to protect victims' rights, we need to set some deadlines.

We do protect the most vulnerable, and that includes... those communities that frankly have been ignored.

She said it would cripple California, California's ability to protect its citizens.

We have worked so hard in the last 10 years to work to pass legislation that would indeed ban asbestos.

I have heard of horrific situations where victims have gone blind, and worse. They always have that right to move forward and hold the company accountable.

TSCA clearly failed Marilyn and her grandson.

Expedited action is not just smart, it is essential.

I think it is important to note that the differences in the witnesses that were selected today...

So it isn't only the preemption of State law, which we have already ascertained in my case could overturn maybe even our global warming law, which certainly I don't think is the intent.