Barbara Boxer

I think that was a smart thing they did, and the right thing.

And of particular concern to me, groundwater from Yucca Mountain flows into my State.

Because it was important to note that we found out that through a GAO report that Republicans asked for that they terminated, the DOE terminated the project, because it was not a workable option, and that there were benefits associated…

Is there agreement on the panel on that statement by the Chairman, yes or no?

I believe that the focus should be on ensuring the safe operation of the 104 nuclear reactors in communities across our Nation, not on old, already-resolved issues.

Will you assure me that the report containing the recommendations is delivered to my office and Senator Inhofe's office on the day it is delivered to the commissioners?

If there is an overall lesson to be learned from this, I think it is that you can't predict everything that will happen in the future.

I think the whole notion that cleaning up the environment harms our economic growth is a myth.

I hope they will see this as a win-win as they, yes, their consumers have to breathe clean air as well as pay their electric bills.

I don't understand why we can't come together.

We have the AFL-CIO telling us there is sufficient labor to cover the needed work on the power plant.

In 2010 alone, 160,000 lives were spared because of the work of the Clean Air Act.

So I would ask you, in addition to the GDP growth, do you not see this as an economic benefit that is often overlooked in our Country?

69 percent of them want us to do tougher, tougher rules on air.

It is a horrific situation. If you suffer in your family a premature death because of the air pollution...

And that is why Richard Nixon lauded it. And that is why George Bush lauded it.

I think it is important that we understand that the support among the American people for the work you do and your predecessors did and those who will follow you is huge.

Because greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act's capacious definition of air pollutant, we hold that EPA has the statutory authority to regulate the emissions of such gases.

When President Obama took the oath of office, we were bleeding 800,000 jobs a month.

Well, it is time to help us with this rule and do even more.

I think it is time to step up to the plate.

The control of air pollution is part and parcel of our national defense.

Since the Clean Air Act was signed into law by Richard Nixon, our Nation's GDP has increased by 210 percent.

When somebody stands here in this Committee and attacks the President of the United States for not doing enough on jobs...

It is not our primary job, but one of the happy, I guess outcomes, of an American public and a Congress who have always supported protecting clean air and our health, is that we have created an entire industry of Americans who lead the…