Barbara Boxer | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Barbara Boxer


00:02:26 1 Early life and family
00:04:28 2 U.S. Representative
00:05:59 3 U.S. Senator
00:06:03 3.1 Elections
00:07:18 3.2 Committees
00:08:35 3.3 Caucus memberships
00:08:48 3.4 Legislation sponsored
00:09:25 4 Presidential politics
00:09:35 4.1 2004
00:10:24 4.2 2008
00:10:53 4.3 2016
00:11:16 5 Post-Senate career
00:11:36 6 Platform and votes
00:11:45 6.1 George W. Bush
00:12:07 6.1.1 Bush nominees
00:13:29 6.2 Economy
00:15:04 6.3 Education
00:15:30 6.4 Election reform
00:16:28 6.5 Energy
00:16:51 6.6 Environment
00:19:04 6.7 Foreign policy
00:20:07 6.7.1 Iraq War
00:20:58 6.8 Gun laws
00:21:15 6.8.1 Mass shooting
00:21:43 6.9 Hate Crimes
00:22:03 6.10 Health care
00:23:37 6.11 Intellectual property
00:23:50 6.12 LGBT rights
00:24:57 6.13 Marijuana
00:25:17 6.14 National security
00:25:53 6.15 Reproductive rights
00:27:25 6.16 Social Security
00:27:44 6.17 Surveillance
00:28:09 6.18 Congressional scorecards
00:30:45 7 Public Image
00:30:54 7.1 Criticizing Condoleezza Rice's judgment
00:32:16 7.2 Television appearances
00:33:33 7.3 Awards and honors
00:33:51 7.4 Ethics
00:34:15 8 Major speeches and statements
00:36:53 9 Congressional service
00:37:03 10 Electoral history
00:37:24 11 See also



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Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is a retired American politician who served as a United States Senator for  California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives 1983 to 1993.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Boxer graduated from George Wingate High School and Brooklyn College. She worked as a stockbroker for several years before moving to California with her husband. During the 1970s, she worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun and as an aide to U.S. Representative John L. Burton. She served on the Marin County Board of Supervisors for six years and became the board's first female president. With the slogan "Barbara Boxer Gives a Damn", she was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982, representing California District 6. She sat on the House Armed Services Committee, and was involved in government oversight, passing several procurement reforms.
Boxer won the 1992 election for the U.S. Senate. She previously held the record for the most votes in any U.S. Senate election in history, having received 6.96 million votes in her 2004 re-election, until her colleague, Dianne Feinstein, the senior Senator from California, surpassed that number in her 2012 re-election. Boxer and Feinstein were the first female pair of U.S. Senators representing any state at the same time. Boxer was the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and the vice chair of the Select Committee on Ethics. She was also the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip. Although generally identified with the San Francisco Bay Area, where her political career began, Boxer now lives in the Coachella Valley.
At the time of her retirement, Boxer ranked eleventh in seniority in the United States Senate, and was the most senior junior Senator from the retirement of Tom Harkin in January 2015 until her own retirement two years later. She was also dean of the California Congressional Delegation, despite being the Junior Senator from California, as she spent 10 years as a US Representative for California's 6th district before being elected to the Senate in 1993.
On January 8, 2015, Boxer announced that she would not seek re-election in 2016.  She was succeeded by California Attorney General Kamala Harris.