Barbara Boxer

In conclusion, let's meet in the middle. Let's put this 2011 budget issue behind us quickly. Let's move on to long-term deficit reduction and job creation. If we fail, let's not get paid for our work here.

There is no question that the stated view is, Congress should act on a specific bill on carbon pollution.

We should delay our carbon pollution reduction effort until our economy improves.

We should be united in this.

Isn't it true--thank you, Senator Whitehouse--that carbon pollution comes out of the same stack as other forms of air pollution?

The Bush administration stopped any and all forward motion on carbon pollution reduction for the entire time they were there.

I think those who created the pollution should pay for it.

You need to follow the law. I hope we will support you.

I am going to take it to the American people, and he will as well.

Let's go to infant mortality in the year 2010. Infant mortality, which by the way, we are slipping on that front.

When you say that you are stopping the EPA from doing their job under the Clean Air Act, you are costing people.

What pollution is in particulate matter, those small pieces of pollution that get in our air?

People want to repeal the Clean Air Act, just bring it to the floor, we will debate that, and oh, boy, will the American people weigh in.

Don't let people mischaracterize what you are doing. Go forward, do your job, protect our health. History will judge you well.

The mission that EPA undertakes every day is critically important to our children, to our families and to our communities.

I think that your budget is a tough budget. You are cutting. But what is going on around this place is going against the American people.

So when you work on cleaning up the air, do you take into account the benefits that people have, and does the law require you to do that?

Everybody supports the EPA doing its job.

The public expects EPA to implement the Clean Air Act, specifically, the EPA to implement the Clean Air Act and strongly opposes congressional interference in the law's implementation.

But tough times call for intelligent decisionmaking and wisdom, not reckless cuts that will do more harm than good.

The major, major landmark environmental laws were signed by Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and George Herbert Walker Bush.

My interpretation of what the Supreme Court said, in a very clear decision, is once an endangerment finding is made...

Dirty diesel exhaust is deadly.

I think that is really important.

But no American would try to balance their household budget by skimping on their kids' safety.