Senate Proceeding on Mar 30th, 2011 :: 4:44:45 to 4:49:35
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Barbara Boxer: the supreme court said if we find scientists that carbon pollution is dangerous, we have to regulate it. guess what? the scientists found that carbon pollution is dangerous. the e.p.a. is ready to act i think in a judicious way, they're not going after farms or small business. that's not good enough.

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Speech By: Barbara Boxer

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Barbara Boxer: these special interests who took this huge ad against the -- beautiful ad. it looks element environmental. green. this isn't green. it's dirty. dirty air. that's what this ad stands for,

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Barbara Boxer: dirty air. a lot of people didn't want me to come back here because they knew i'd come here and tell the truth about this. but i'm here. i'm going to tell the truth every day every way because i love my grandkids and i love everybody's grandkids. and, as far as i'm concerned, that's why i'm here.

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Barbara Boxer: not to protect the rich polluters who make billions of dollars a year. they can clean up their proved it. we proved it. we said, we don't want kids struggling for air. and we said we can do this right. we proved it. we not only proved that we can clean up the care, we not only

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Barbara Boxer: proved that we can save lives, we not only proved that you can save asthma attacks, we proved that you can grow this economy. i'm going to close now and let my friend from the floor. i have to close with this, there's a lot of talk about how this is bad for business.

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Barbara Boxer: but the fact is every time the polluters got up and said, don't pass anymore clean air act amendments, it's going to be bad for jobs, we found out that cleaning up the environment actually creates jobs. not only does it create jobs, it creates new technologies. not only does it create new technologies, but those technologies are exported to the

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Barbara Boxer: world. and i will place in the record the number of jobs that have been created as we move to clean up the air. so the reason i'm here in this -- i think this is quite a spirited discussion that i'm having with all of you -- is

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Barbara Boxer: because we are facing four bad amendments. four. count them. one, two, three, four. the worst being mcconnell. all of which will either slow town the e.p.a. or stop the e.p.a. and, by the way, the mcconnell amendment is so terrible, that it even says, e.p.a. can no longer have anything to do with tailpipe emissions in cars,

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Barbara Boxer: which is such an important part of our dirty air that we -- we are facing. so in closing, i want to say, according to information from the institute of clean air companies, those are american companies, who oppose this big-polluting companies.

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Barbara Boxer: from 1999 to 2 -- 1999 to 2001 the number of boiler makers increased by 6,700. a 35% increase. even though we said you have to clean up the air. the department of commerce shows the u.s. environmental technology industry generate generated $300 billion in revenues, supported $1.00 -- 1.7 million jobs.

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Barbara Boxer: the air pollution control sector produced $18 billion in revenue. small and medium-sized companies make up 99% of the private-sector firms in this sector of the economy. so here's what you've got, you've got these huge multibillion dollar polluters who can afford to take one page

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Barbara Boxer: ads -- full-page ads in "the washington post", they want to continue polluting the air and they don't want to clean it up. and you have a whole other group of businesses who have written to us and said, please, let the e.p.a. do its work. it saves lives. it saves our children. and it creates many jobs.

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Barbara Boxer: new jobs, clean jobs, good jobs. if we go down the path of the mcconnell amendment and these other amendments, we are ceding our leadership in environmental and clean tech to china. that is the last thing we want to do.

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Barbara Boxer: they are already surpassing us in solar production and we created it. so, ladies and gentlemen, the bill before us is a fine bill. i hope, if we have to vote for these amendments, and they do come up as part of this agreement as we move forward, we will not pass any of them and we