YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) applauded Senate approval of long-awaited funding to build a new Child Development Center (CDC) at Beale Air Force Base (AFB). The funding was included in emergency spending legislation passed by the Senate on Thursday night.
Framing Science (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Barbara Boxer appeared on Bill Moyers last week, providing fresh insight into her relationship with James Inhofe as well as the strategic appeal that turned GOP Senator John Warner into a climate change advocate. In describing her reaction to Inhofe's theatrics during Al Gore's testimony earlier this year, here's what she had to say ( full transcript of the interview ): BARBARA BOXER:...
Lone Star Times (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Yeehaa! Just what Texas needs - a candidate for Senate that has Barbara Boxer as a supporter. My guess is that Rick Noriega could use the $2,500 though, so he’s probably happy as a dude in a Carmen Miranda hat could be! Oops, almost forgot the obligatory blockquote! Today, we’re rushing a $2,500 check from PAC for [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sen. Barbara Boxer, a leading U.S.
Going to the Mat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sen. Barbara Boxer thinks the White House is preventing EPA attempts at tackling greenhouse emissions. OK. Now couple that bit of news with the last post on poor congressional approval ratings and you wonder why Americans think Congress has its collective head up its collective butt.
Right From Left (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Barbara Boxer, my Senator, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is accusing the Bush Administration of a "cover up," to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from preventing greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gases are essential to all human, animal and plant life on earth. Just because a couple of global warming zealots think we should curb these emissions...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Members of Vice President Dick Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said Tuesday. In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., former EPA deputy associate administrator Jason Burnett said an official from Cheney's office ordered that six pages...
A Good Choice . . . for Ohio et al. (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hear Their Cry This weekend I received a follow-up letter from a call I received earlier from a National Right to Life soliciter. The woman who's name was Evelyn , urged me to send $100 or $200 to fight Senator Barbara Boxer 's nasty Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) , which would essentially undo all of the meager incremental victories that the pro-life movement garnered since 1973, which...
NewsObserver.com - Politics (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Members of Vice President Dick Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said Tuesday.In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., former EPA deputy associate administrator Jason Burnett said an official from...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
"This is the story of a White House and vice president's office that work together to squelch information, to squash it, to stop it from getting to the public so that there would be no information out there, so that there wouldn't be a push for them to act," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who appeared with Burnett at a press conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Boxer accused...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... boss, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson.Burnett appeared at a news conference Tuesday with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who said his statements could boost efforts by California and other states to implement their own vehicle emission standards over White House opposition. Boxer plans to call Burnett to testify later this month before the Senate Environment and Public...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... gases emitted into the atmosphere. Burnett’s assertion, which he made in a July 6 letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, conflicts with the White House explanation at the time that the deletions reflected concerns by the White House Office of Science and Technology over the accuracy of the science. Burnett, until last...
Threat Level (Free subscription) | yesterday
... is that the surveillance program is unconstitutional," Specter said. California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer followed on by quoting from Vaughn Walker's ruling on the Senate floor where he explained that Congres had explicitly limited the president's wiretapping powers. "We the Congress limited the power of the executive, and here we are rolling over with bravado to say to this...
ABC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Environment and Public Works Committee.The three-page letter, a response to an inquiry by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the panel's chairwoman, was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. Boxer planned a news conference later in the day.Burnett, 31, a lifelong Democrat who resigned his post last month as associate deputy EPA administrator because of disagreements over the...
The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Environment and Public Works Committee.The three-page letter, a response to an inquiry by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the panel's chairwoman, was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. Boxer planned a news conference later in the day.Burnett, 31, a lifelong Democrat who resigned his post last month as associate deputy EPA administrator because of disagreements over the...
