Barbara Boxer - California's Senator

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Barbara Boxer - California's Senator
Consider these facts about the Best Senator in Washington DC

• Authored the bipartisan Invest in the U.S.A. Act, to encourage companies to bring overseas profits back to the United States
•  Called for ending the tax break that companies receive for moving plants overseas.
•  Wrote the first-ever law to authorize federal funding for afterschool programs.
•  Wrote the law that provides businesses with an enhanced tax credit for donating computer equipment to schools, and she is a strong supporter of the tax deduction to help pay for the costs of a college education.
•  Authored one of the first bills in the Senate to combat HMO abuses and to enact a Patients’ Bill of Rights - so that medical decisions are made by doctors and patients, not HMO bureaucrats. She has written a bill to provide a tax deduction to help pay for the cost of health insurance premiums, and she believes that all Americans should have access to the same health insurance program that members of Congress have. 
•  Supports allowing Americans to purchase lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada. And, she has been a strong advocate for increasing medical research funding to find cures for diseases.
•  Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
•  Wrote the law to ensure that drinking water standards are set to protect children and other vulnerable populations and fought the Bush Administration’s attempt to allow more arsenic in drinking water since 2005.
•  Won passage of legislation to protect as wilderness more than one million acres of pristine land in California.
•  Authored and fought for a bill to increase security in our transportation system and at our ports as well as to provide assistance to local first responders following the September 11 attacks. Wrote the law allowing airline pilots with special training to carry guns in the cockpit, the law requiring that air marshals are on board all high-risk flights, and the law that ensures California’s entire rail system is eligible for security grants to protect against possible terrorist attacks
•  Authored the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which became law in 1994 as part of the comprehensive federal Crime Bill.
•  Strong advocate of the COPS program to put more police on the streets and directing stimulus funding to the COPS program. 
•  Serves on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, where she is a member of the following Subcommittees: Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance; Aviation Operations and Security; Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard; Science and Space; and Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security.
•  Foreign Relations Committee, Boxer chairs the Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women’s Issues.

 
In 2004, she received more than 6.9 million votes - the highest vote total for any Senate candidate in U.S. history.