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  Barbara Boxer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boxer was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982, where she represented California District 6 (Marin County) for five terms.
Boxer is an advocate for stem-cell research, which she believes has the potential to help those with diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord injuries, and other diseases.
Boxer is a cosponsor of the Uniting American Families Act, a bill which would allow US citizens and legal residents to sponsor their same-sex partners for residency.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Barbara Boxer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the State of California.
In 1976 Barbara Boxer was elected to the Marin County Board of Supervisors, where she served for six years, and for a part of the time, as the first woman president of the board.
Barbara Boxer was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982, where she proceeded to represent her Marin County district for the next 10 years.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Barbara_Boxer   (4735 words)

  
 Barbara_Boxer
Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the State of California.
However, Boxer also was deeply involved in the House bank scandal in which congressmen, herself included, wrote bad checks in large amounts, an issue that the Sacramento Bee covered in a Mar. 1, 1992 article quoting Boxer as admitting she didn't pay enough attention to her House bank account.
Boxer is a strong advocate for stem-cell research, which she believes has the potential to help those with diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord injuries, and other diseases.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/barbara_boxer.html   (3140 words)

  
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Boxer said in an interview last week that she is not the new diva of demagoguery.
Boxer was elected in November with 57.8 percent of the vote, collecting a million more votes than Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein garnered in her 2000 re-election as the state's senior senator.
Barbara Sinclair, a political scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that as long as the Democratic Party dominates in California elections, Boxer is well suited to serve as the political counterpoint for a huge slice of them.
www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=BOXER-01-23-05&cat=WW   (766 words)

  
 Barbara Boxer's Moment of Truth
Boxer and her allies were fighting for the right of a doctor to kill living, breathing human babies at the time of delivery—while only their heads remain in the birth canal.
Early in her exchange, when she ignored Santorum’s questions, Sen. Boxer expressed an unwillingness to tackle the thorny subject of "when does life begin?" And wisely so, for that requires supporting her view, rejected by 75 percent of Americans, that life starts only when all of the baby is safely in his mother’s arms.
Boxer cannot win, and with the one exception of that moment Santorum had her on the ropes, she dodged it consistently.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=2973   (642 words)

  
 If Barbara Boxer Had Her Way...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Boxer says the lack of UN authorization for military action is why she opposed the war in Iraq.
Boxer that her position of ‘give the inspectors more time’ was an untenable position repeatedly rebuffed by an examination of the history of UN Inspections in Iraq.
Barbara Boxer’s political assault against the interests of the American people are taking their toll on her popularity and will likely lead to her defeat in the upcoming U.S. Senate campaign.
www.howardforsenate.com /Documents/Saddam.asp   (1008 words)

  
 Boxer's rebellion - Salon
Boxer may have a reputation for tilting at windmills, but she bristles at the thought that she is engaging in protests that only delay the inevitable.
Boxer's in-your-face approach has given some comfort to Democrats around the country who feel defeated as the Republicans celebrate inauguration week.
Boxer says it's all part of a long process, one that will someday see the Democrats in control again.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/01/20/boxer/index.html   (938 words)

  
 Barbara Boxer Interview | The Progressive
Barbara Boxer: The American people are beginning to see the Republicans’ willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent.
Barbara Boxer: Each one has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman’s health or her life, and if it does, you can’t support it.
Barbara Boxer: When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics would be anything that I would be a part of.
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 Message Board (MB) about Senator Barbara Boxer
Barbara is an absolute idiot and only won in CA b/c of the Jewish vote.
Boxer, I am one that voted for you ma'am-and I am VERY concerned about the needs of the disabled in California and in the nation.
Boxer for years that I was not disabled, I attended college and did other things, that only made me much worse healthwise.
www.mbpolitics.com /PoliticsSenatorBarbaraBoxer.html   (1115 words)

  
 Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein were the first pair of women to be elected together to the United States Senate from the same state in 1992.
Boxer's election was another successful step upward in her political career.
Barbara Boxer's success in the political arena is a model to emulate by every young woman.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Boxer.html   (590 words)

  
 Boxer halts official tally to protest Ohio vote / She and representative from Cleveland force Congress to discuss ...
Boxer and fellow Democrat Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Cleveland, relying on widespread reports of voting problems on Nov. 2, stopped the count of Electoral College votes with a formal objection to the Ohio results.
Boxer's move, which Capitol wags quickly dubbed "Boxer's Rebellion," made many of her Democratic colleagues uncomfortable and drew biting criticism from Republicans, particularly in the House.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, objected to the results of Ohio's 20 electoral votes, relying on federal law, 3 U.S. Code Section 15, which sets out the procedure to protest the vote of any state's slate of electors.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/07/BOXER.TMP   (1242 words)

  
 President Boxer
Barbara Boxer will appear at the Central Library (i.e., the main branch) of the Free Library of Philadelphia at noon on Thursday, December 8, discussing her new, and first, novel, A Time to Run.
Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and fifteen of her fellow Democrats deserve special commendation for having signed a letter this week calling upon President Sesame Street to fire Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the increasingly controversial and unabashedly right-wing chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Barbara Boxer and George Allen, both of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were on Hardball with Chris Matthews to discuss the John Bolton nomination, and it is a good example of why I dig Senator Boxer so much.
presidentboxer.blogspot.com   (2592 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Sen. Barbara Boxer steps into spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Boxer says she is just standing up for what she believes.
Barely 5 feet tall, Boxer must stand on a box — which she sometimes refers to as "the Boxer Box" — to see over the podium at press conferences.
Some Republicans have suggested that Boxer should have accepted Bush's re-election victory as a sign of acceptance for his secretary of state nominee, and kept her mouth shut on the Rice nomination.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-01-30-boxer_x.htm?csp=34   (1380 words)

  
 Barbara Boxer Progressive, The - Find Articles
In her celebrated clash with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during Rice's confirmation hearings, Boxer turned what was supposed to be a cakewalk into an aggressive inquiry into Rice's role in misleading the public into the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Shortly after we spoke, Boxer made national news for her role in trying to scuttle John Bolton's nomination as Bush's ambassador to the U.N. She managed to delay a floor vote, citing the State Department's failure to provide the Democrats with adequate information on Bolton's intimidation of State Department staff, among other issues.
Boxer won her Senate seat in the 1992 "Year of the Woman" election, and played a pivotal role in her colleague Bob Packwood's demise after revelations that he was an infamous sexual harasser.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1295/is_7_69/ai_n15341026   (806 words)

  
 Barbara Boxer - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barbara Levy Boxer is the current junior Senator from California.
Boxer decisively defeated Republican candidate Bill Jones, a former California Secretary of, by a margin of 20% [3] (http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/sov/2004_general/formatted_us_sen_detail.pdf).
Boxer is known as a champion of human rights, environmental protection, military procurement reform and a woman's right of reproductive choice.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Barbara_Boxer   (881 words)

  
 Barbara Boxer for Senate
Barbara Boxer is a staunch defender of a woman's right to choose.
Barbara Boxer is pushing for tough laws to protect our air and water and preserve natural areas.
She is leading the fight to ban the sale of cheap "junk guns," supports banning copycat assault weapons, and is a cosponsor of legislation that would require handguns to be sold with child safety locks.
www.consultclarity.com /udc/boxer.html   (554 words)

  
 Barbara Boxer - dKosopedia
Barbara Boxer, a Junior Senator from California, was elected to the Senate in 1993.
Her opponent in 2004 was Republican Bill Jones; Boxer was re-elected to the Senate with 6.4 million votes, beating her opponent by over 20 percentage points.
Barbara Boxer is one of the Senators from California; the other is Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Barbara_Boxer   (197 words)

  
 Sen. Boxer takes victim role after hearing for Rice - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - January 24, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sen. Barbara Boxer says she is the real victim of last week's confirmation hearing for Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, yet continued yesterday to question the national security adviser's honesty.
Boxer accused Miss Rice and the Bush administration of misleading the nation before going to war with Iraq, and along with former Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, voted against Miss Rice's confirmation in committee.
Boxer's questioning, but said her colleague "was within her rights" to question a presidential nominee.
www.washtimes.com /national/20050123-112502-7061r.htm   (563 words)

  
 Think Progress » Barbara Boxer as Erin Brockovich
Senator Boxer was the star of yesterday’s confirmation hearing for Stephen Johnson, Bush’s nominee to lead the EPA.
Barbara is definitely California’s star Senator now, and, in my opinion, it is time for California Democrats to find a good replacement candidate for Diane.
Barbara Boxer is a loudmouth red diaper doper baby who should mind her own business and get with the culture of life.
thinkprogress.org /index.php?p=597   (924 words)

  
 'Saints' fend off 'snakes' in Boxer's political novel - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barbara Boxer's debut novel has yet to be published, but it already has created a dark and stormy night for Republicans.
Boxer's portrayal of Republicans as "snakes" and Democrats as "saints" in the book, which chronicles the adventures of a diminutive redhead who assumes her husband's Senate seat after he is killed, then tries to foil the nomination of a conservative woman to the Supreme Court.
Boxer's 2004 financial records, she received an advance of $15,938 for the novel, co-written with Mary-Rose Hayes, a sixtysomething British author known for such feminine fare as "Amethyst" and "The Winter Women."
www.washingtontimes.com /national/20051018-105413-8859r.htm   (514 words)

  
 President Boxer: Boxer Has Balls
Barbara Boxer's actions throughout the Ohio vote and Condi Rice hearings are more than enough to earn my support.
I am not sure I can go for the Boxer for President thing, but, she HAS in fact shown that she has more balls that many democrats in the Congress...
As a Californian I am proud to be represented by Barbara Boxer and I was proud to sign her petition to hold Condoleezza Rice accountable.
presidentboxer.blogspot.com /2005/01/boxer-has-balls.html   (1306 words)

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