Posted by
cehwiedel on Friday, November 10, 2006 8:34:14 AM
According to an article in today's deadtree edition of the
Orange County Register, Barbara Boxer will chair the
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
The Democratic sweep of Congress means that Sen. Barbara Boxer will realize a 14-year goal to head the
Committee on Environment and Public Works.
…Besides her work with such social matters as women's and abortion rights, the environment has been Boxer's signature cause for her years in the Senate and as a member of the Marin County Board of Supervisors.
"This is a dream come true for me," Boxer told reporters during a conference call Thursday. "We can make an enormous difference in people's lives."
Boxer sat down with her environmental staff on Wednesday and began mapping strategy for her committee. She will be back in Washington, D.C., for next week's lame-duck session to continue that planning.
…Environmental staff members at the White House have let the senator's committee director know they want to meet to talk about gobal warming.
And that's something Boxer is determined to work on.
"Time is running out, and we need to move forward on that," Boxer said. "If we don't move forward, it gets more expensive to take action." Boxer pointed to California's first-in-the-nation law regulating greenhouse gases as a model.
"Under the current leadership of the committee, we had one hearing on global warming," Boxer said, and the witness was novelist Michael Crichton. She plans a series of discussions.
Oh, crikey. At least she'll provide lots of fodder to waste pixels over. Since she'll be in Washington for the lame-duck session, it might prove effective to
email her your views on global warming.
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