Sen. Boxer challenges GOP on environment issues

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Boxer challenges GOP on environment issues

Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Friday, January 7, 2011

(01-07) 04:00 PST Washington - -- 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.


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