Politics
Boxer challenges GOP on environment issues
Loading ...Exactly 24 hours after being sworn in for her fourth term, California Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday unloaded both barrels on House Republicans’ plans to stall climate-change regulations, slipping seamlessly into her role as a pit bull against the GOP.
“If anyone in Congress tries to move to a dirty-air policy, I will take them straight to the American people and do everything in my power to stop them,” Boxer, a Democrat, pledged at a news conference.
Cast as an ineffective legislator by Republican Carly Fiorina in her hard-fought re-election race, Boxer returned to the Senate displaying her undisputed strengths as an opponent.
As a member of the Senate majority party and chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Boxer confronts a new foil in the Republican-controlled House. GOP leaders are hoping to roll back, de-fund or otherwise stymie what they call job-killing regulatory overreach by the Obama administration and Democrats on a number of fronts.
These include not just the new health care law but also financial regulations and climate-change rules.
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