Barbara Boxer

You're making it up.

It ain't a settled question until there's a law.

Essentially, I want to thank you for your support for this legislation, and I urge the Obama Administration to work with us.

We need to fix this law just to make sure that this tragedy doesn't happen again.

It's all about the people.

Yes, that is correct. The funding could be used for any project in the Great Lakes Navigation System.

The unique nature of the Great Lakes Navigation System is one of the reasons we do not include Great Lakes projects in the definition of high-use deep draft harbors and instead include the Great Lakes in a separate group for the…

I thank the Senator from New Jersey for raising this concern. While section 3004 does state that the Secretary shall include project recommendations, it does not add funding, so such recommendations or feasibility studies would only be…

I thank the Senator from New Jersey for raising this concern. He is correct that the language of section 3004 authorizes and directs the corps to conduct feasibility studies for the specific projects it identifies in the regional study.

I appreciate the Senator from New York raising this issue. I also know that my good friend from New York and I agree on the need to enhance the resiliency of the east coast in the wake of the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy. Section…

That is my understanding. The additional uses authorized by WRDA 2013 are important for many parts of the country, including California, and are clearly an eligible use of the harbor maintenance trust fund.

I urge a ``no'' vote. Colleagues, please hear me out. This amendment would expand the authority of a newly created infrastructure deauthorization commission and allow projects in your State to be stopped midstream--active projects…

I would answer my friend in this way. This is a new commission. We set it up in the bill. It has never worked before. We do not know how it will work. So we thought, for starters, let's go after the older projects, see how it works, and…

I want to tell my colleagues what the plan is for tonight and tomorrow on the WRDA bill and thank everyone so much on both sides of the aisle for their cooperation. Senator Vitter and I are so happy we are able to have this open process…

What is the order at this time? Amendment No. 868 The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote on amendment No. 868 offered by the Senator from Wyoming…

I call up Inhofe amendment No. 797. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from California [Mrs. Boxer], for Mr. Inhofe, proposes an amendment numbered 797.

For the information of all Senators, it is our expectation that the Inhofe amendment will be the subject of a voice vote. If that occurs there will be two rollcall votes this evening, and the remainder of the votes will occur tomorrow. I…

We are trying to work out the objections, but we will have a vote on it if we cannot. We are working on it.

Yes. There is an amendment, I would say to my friend through the Chair, on our list that we have agreed to, Senator Vitter and I. There will probably be a vote on this proposal. I will ask my staff is that correct, on the Leahy-Sanders…

MVPDs would only be allowed to import a distant signal when the local station has refused to keep the in-market signal up while contract negotiations continue.

In order to provide blackout relief to consumers, Congress could designate those who are caught in a broadcast television blackout as 'unserved.'

Reforming the retransmission consent regime to address the broadcasters' government-sanctioned monopoly could halt the trend in rising prices and prevent consumers from suffering blackouts.

And no revenue. That is akin to the Senator from Washington saying, I will go to conference except I don't want to see any more cuts in afterschool programs or senior citizen programs or veterans programs. In other words, we don't take our…

Let me say to my friend, I hope she plans to be here as often as she can, and those of us who can help her will be here to continue to ask for conferees so we can get to the next stage. When Senator McConnell said he would amend the…

All right. So the Senator from Washington decided, with Senator Reid and the leadership team, to bring a budget to the floor. Then--I will never forget it--we stayed here until 5 o'clock in the morning handling over 100 amendments; is that…