Friday, January 21, 2005

The Esteemed Senator Boxer

Barbara Boxer is rapidly becoming one of my political heroes, alongside Barack Obama, Russ Feingold, Jon Corzine (a native of East Central Illinois and U of I grad, no less!) and soon-to-be-governor Eliot Spitzer.


Boxer Is Loudest Voice of Opposition to Rice Nomination
By CARL HULSE, New York Times


WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 - While some Democrats are still struggling to find their voices after November's election losses, Senator Barbara Boxer of California is not among them.

Her full-throated and combative questioning of Condoleezza Rice during two days of hearings on her nomination to be secretary of state was a vivid illustration of the aggressive posture that Ms. Boxer, a 64-year-old liberal from Marin County, near San Francisco, brought back to Washington after rolling up a big margin of victory in her re-election to a third term.

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