Senate Proceeding on Sep 24th, 2009 :: 5:00:20 to 5:04:50
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Barbara Boxer: solutions to this issue. so i thank the chair and yield the time. i understand that my colleague from california is here to speak on a different issue. i thank the chair. mrs. boxer: mr. president? the presiding officer: senator from california is mrs. boxer: mr. president, thank you very much. i'm here on the floor, along with senator whitehouse, and there may be some others, to

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Speech By: Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer: respond to the senators murkowski and thune, regarding an amendment that they very much to put before this body. and that amendment stated that would stop the eironmental protection agency from enforcing the clean air act as it relates to the pollutant carbon. and some of the things that they

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Barbara Boxer: said are so reminiscent of what was said before the clean air act passed that, oh, this is going to be a terrible thing for our people. and the same thing that was said when the clean w passed. oh, this is going to be a burden on business. and i have to say to this body, that the day we turn our back on these landmark environmental

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Barbara Boxer: laws is the day that the health of our people will suffer. we don't want that to happen. and so i want to i know this amendment will come back again and again. i know there will be a tax on the clean air act and the clean water act. that's an attack on our families.

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Barbara Boxer: it is particularly an attack on our children and on our vulnerable senior citizens and our citizens who may have disabilities and who are ill. and i will fight it with every ounce of my strenh every time it rears its ugly head in this chamber.

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Barbara Boxer: the interesting thing is most of these environmental laws started with a republican president named richard nixon. what happened to the days when environmental laws were supported on both sides? those days appear to be done. -- to be gone. what i'd like to dos i'm going to yield up to 20 minutes to the

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Barbara Boxer: senator from rhode island. he's so eloquent on ts point. before i do, i want to place some letters in the record. one letter is from the environmental protection agency saying that they very, very difficult time making re that the air was

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Barbara Boxer: that murkowski amendment had been offered and had it passed and this become law. interestingly, we have a letter from the alliance of automobile manufacturers also opposing that murkowski amendment. and we hav a letter -- we have two more letters t put in the

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Barbara Boxer: 24 hours. one from a coalition made up of the alliance for climate protection center for american progress, center for auto safety, center for biological diversity, the clean air task force, the clean water action, the defenders of

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Barbara Boxer: league of women voters, the national autobahn society, the national resources defense council, osha, the -- o oceana, union of concerned science tins and environmental law center all saying that they oppose this amendment which concerns not enforcing the clean air act as

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Barbara Boxer: it relates to carbon dioxide. and, lastly, a very well put together her wildlife federation, in which they quote a poll of americans believe that our government should, in fact, regulate global warming pollution, which, of course, is

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Barbara Boxer: mostly carbon. so here we have a situation where i'm very pleased that the rules of the united states senate did not allow thisery dangerous amendment to be brought before the body. we would have talked about it, you know, for days of because before i would allow a vote on that, i would want to make sure that everyingle senator understood, it's a repeal of the

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Barbara Boxer: clean air act through the backdoor even after the bush supreme court said that the clean air act covers carbon and greenhouse gases.