Hope on global warming...boxer will chair Resource Comm.

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She has had a call from CEQ and will pass legislation like California's to start addressing global warming crisis. Feinstein also sits on the committee. :woohoo:

From http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/10/MNG6SMA41J1.DTL

Feinstein and Boxer poised for pivotal roles in U.S. policy
They're planning to change national course on global warming and Iraq strategy
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Friday, November 10, 2006

(11-10) 04:00 PST Washington -- California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer charted a course change Thursday on everything from global warming to tough confirmation hearings for the incoming defense secretary as they catapulted to power in the Senate, now officially in Democratic hands.
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Alternately moderate and confrontational, as befits their political personae, the two women first elected to the Senate in 1992 are central beneficiaries of Tuesday's political earthquake that gave Democrats a monopoly on Capitol Hill.
Nowhere is the change starker than with Boxer's impending chairwomanship of the Environment and Public Works Committee, where she takes the reins from a conservative Republican who thinks global warming is a hoax.

She vowed to push through global warming legislation next year, taking California's landmark model nationwide -- a move Feinstein proposed in a major speech in August in San Francisco. Boxer, describing global warming as the challenge of this generation, rattled off the potential dire consequences from a projected 3.7-degree rise in the Earth's temperature, including a melting of the polar ice caps and a 20-foot rise in sea levels along California's coasts. She said she would bring "everybody to the table to come up with a sense of legislation ... because time is running out."

Among the Senate's severest critics of Bush, Boxer said the administration had already extended an olive branch, with a top aide from the President's Council on Environmental Quality contacting her staff indicating a willingness to work together


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1. Link no worky/nt

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2. I fixed it. Thanks