[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16002]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO BARBARA BOXER

  Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, today I wish to pay tribute to Senator 
Barbara Boxer, who has served her State and country with boundless 
energy, enthusiasm, and exuberance.
  Senator Boxer's 24 years in the Senate are only part of her legacy of 
leadership and accomplishments. Previously, she served for 10 years in 
the House of Representatives for California's Sixth Congressional 
District and before that as the first woman president of the Marin 
County Board of Supervisors.
  That remarkable record of service includes another record. In her 
reelection in 2004, Senator Boxer received nearly 7 million votes, the 
most in Senate history until that time and a mark that stood for 8 
years.
  During her service in the Senate, Senator Boxer has established 
herself as a champion of the environment, infrastructure, and medical 
research. Along with Senator Inhofe, she authored a 5-year 
transportation bill that many thought was an impossible task in a 
gridlocked Senate. But she worked across the aisle and did it. The 
United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act she authored in 
2012 reaffirmed the special relationship between our two countries and 
is another of Senator Boxer's accomplishments.
  It has been especially rewarding to work with her on legislation to 
better protect women from violence, in our country and around the 
world.
  In her first campaign for Congress in 1982, she ran under the slogan, 
``Barbara Boxer Gives a Damn.'' She always has and always will. It is a 
pleasure to thank Senator Barbara Boxer for her years of service and to 
wish her and her husband, Stewart, many more years of good health and 
great happiness.

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