Barbara Boxer

I ask for an additional 30 seconds, please. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I wish to read from a letter the majority and minority leaders received from the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Association of Homebuilders, and the National Association of Realtors. These are the businesspeople, and this is…

Will the Presiding Officer let me know when I have talked for 4 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The chair will let the Senator know.

I do not want to cut you off, but I have to because I only have a minute.

You cannot protect a facility without the funding.

And second, the troubling thing here is that there were repeated requests to implement security upgrades in Tripoli and Benghazi.

I praise Secretary Clinton for ordering a truly independent and tough investigation of what happened in Benghazi.

So my question is, Are you going to submit to us a plan and the money request that you believe you need, absolutely paying attention to fiscal constraints?

We need to get our priorities straight around here, and we cannot walk away and invite another tragedy.

I rise to speak on a number of matters. Before Senator Hatch leaves the floor, I really do think it is important that we listen to what he said, but I also think his criticism of the majority leader was really over the top. We just…

Reserving the right to object and I will not object, I want to speak for 20 seconds. This is what I want to say. There are amendments and there are amendments. We all know that. I think we have shown that we can work together. But when you…

There are certain things that are way above politics. This superstorm is one of those things, it is way above politics.

We must not simply replace the structures damaged by Sandy. We have to build resilient infrastructure to withstand tomorrow's superstorms.

Thank you for holding this hearing, and I look forward to working with the Senate and the House bipartisan group to get the right response to this storm.

We can't rebuild the way it was built before. That is just a waste of money. We have to prevent the damage in the future.

Hurricane Sandy has shown us all what the scientists sitting right in this room... told us exactly what would happen, and it is all happening.

The one thing Senator Schumer said to me, and has continued to say, is how amazing, what a broad swath this disaster was.

If they don't see from Hurricane Sandy... then I am very disturbed for our children and our grandchildren.

If we can't come together and help the people who were so harmed, and we get this caught up in our other disputes and problems, shame on us.

I personally believe it will be a turning point, I hope it will be a turning point here in our fight to address climate change.

President Obama's policies have reduced the carbon in the air, and will over the next many years.

Yes, and many of the things you said obviously deal with the supplemental.

The public is with us, the science is clear, our national security establishments, our business communities all know that this is real.

We cannot have a halt to fixing our problems when there are 10 different laws that they have to comply with.

I think that was ridiculous, so-called reform.