barbara boxer used my photographs at the smithsonian. my exhibit was immediately censored. the photographs were taken now. >> why was it censored? >> the word oil was not even mention, but just the fear because senator barbara boxer used my image during a senate debate and won. that made it very political. >> for our listeners, you can go to our website to see these images. but your image of a polar bear eating a will? >> no, this is the one she used. >> describe it for us. >> this is in the beaufort sea. this was taken in early june. the bear is eating a well left behind -- whale bone up behind re. she used that to argue that national wildlife needs to be preserved. senator during defended my work in a hearing. later on, senator stevens -- >> from alaska, now deceased, was convicted. >> right. he said president jimmy carter and i'm reading this information to the american public on the 2003.senate floor in may 2 i was scared because i was not a citizen. looking back, it seems amusing, but it was very scary. barbara boxer led me to become an activist, to really fight for cl

joining me now is senator barbara boxer, democrat from california. senator boxer, thanks for coming on the show, first of all. >> thank you. >> how does the gop delay on the violence against women act fit a larger pattern that we've been seeing regarding women? >> well, it seems that every day they come up with a new way to punish women. i don't get it. i don't know why they're doing it. i have to believe that they want to see women without power because really when you talk about women's health and you try to shut down access to health as they did by defunding planned parenthood, thankfully we restored that, you affect the lives of 5 million women who rely on planned parenthood for health care. so when women are not well and they have no place to go, they feel that they've lost their ability to compete in the world, to hold down jobs, to take care of their families. so i think it's really something that i can't answer as to why they do it. but that's the impact. now, this delay in the violence against women act is one that you have laid out beautiful

one of the chief architects was barbara boxer who demonstrated a lot of leadership to get this through as well as nancy pelosi getting a house together to get this done, which for a while was looking like it might not happen. very good news to get that done. in terms of funding levels, this is more or less the status quo for us, which is good. we got a healthy amount of funding, particularly capital funding from the federal government. that is maintained despite the unusual contention around this. it has always been a bipartisan effort. we will have more debate associated with it but it did get past. this supports the assumptions made in our capital plan. that was on the authorizing, the appropriations. of the houses of congress have passed their appropriations. there was a number of anti- transit amendments on the house side that we expect will come out. we have every confidence that it will come out when it comes together in a conference committee. generally, the levels of appropriations seem to be in line generally with our forecast. that is good news as well. really good news for t

it is 100 days old since our chairwoman barbara boxer, great pride of california, passed in the senate, a bipartisan way, a transportation bill that received on the record 75 members of the united states senate. democrats and republicans. senator boxer, the chairwoman, the ranking republican on the committee, senator degrees, you have to be a contortionist to have a further spectrum of how far they are on most issues, but together on this transportation bill, because everything that we're talking about here is about jobs now. it is about connecting communities. it is about transportation. it is about quality of life. quality of air. it is about commerce. product and people to work and to market and back. it is about economic development that takes us -- about growth. about growth. it takes us to a special place. and yes, our projects have to be of national significance and we can compete with anybody on that score. so i'll accept your compliments, tiffany, and others on what i have done. all i can do is advocate for what is happening here and what's happening here in every respect is e

barbara boxer's senate subcommittee met to discuss the overhaul of the federal chemical regulation. the safe chemicals act would allow the epa to require proof that they are safe before they're put on the market. among those testifying is a san francisco firefighter. >> julie watts explains that he hopes the fed is take a cue from california which is rewriting their own 1970's regulations. >> san francisco's rescue one is the busiest firehouse in the country, and tony was the proud capt. until he was forced to retire due to a rare form of cancer. >> the type of cancer that you have is found in people at work in the chemical industry. >i am a fireman and i can't do work in the chemical industry. >> he is referring to flame retardants that were added to furniture in the '70s. high level of flame retardants link to cancer are being found in the blood of firefighters believed to be from the toxic soot on their gear but since the chemicals migrate and settle in dust, study show the fire retardant levels have dramatically increased in toddlers, breast milk, and babies. >> we know that it

. >>> senator barbara boxer introduced legislation to turn a large wilderness area between the bay areand sacramento into a national conversation area. the legislation is designed to better manage and protect 319,000 acres of the snow mountain region. the designation will also promote tourism and create jobs in local communities. the areas on existing federal lands in lake, nappa and yola counties, stretching more than 100 miles. >>> an estimated 20 million directv describers can watch channels owned by via com, including comedy central, mtv and nickelodeon. it turned off the networks just before midnight after viaccomthreatened to sue, who wants to negotiate higher payments for its programs. each company blames the other for the contract dispute. >>> people have been lining up for days to attend the international comic book convention in san diego. it opens to the public tomorrow and runs through sunday. the outside of the san diego convention center has been decorated and exhibits set up inside. petco stadium has been turned into a two mile long zombie walk. >>> in san francisco, a dr

money to pay for lindsay lohan's bar tab for at least another decade so the top fundraiser is barbara boxer she raise the equivalent of two thousand four hundred and forty four dollars per hour harry reid raised two thousand and sixty eight per hour al franken took in a thousand eight hundred seventy five for our john mccain when he grabbed an hour early one thousand eight hundred twenty three dollars and it's also don't forget marco rubio his hourly fund raising haul equals to one thousand eight hundred twelve now even the least prolific senate fundraiser mike lee he raised one hundred forty three dollars an hour which is two hundred eighty six thousand dollars on an annual basis that's a lot of money so let's move on to the house here tea party favorite michele bachmann she topped the list raising the equivalent of three thousand three hundred and ninety one dollars for our speaker john boehner raised two thousand four hundred forty nine allen west took in one thousand six hundred and thirty six and house majority leader eric cantor one thousand four hundred eighty nine and let's not forg

today barbara boxer's senate subcommittee met to discuss the overall the 1970's federal chemical regulation. a safe chemicals act would allow the epa to require proof that products are safe before they're put on the market. among those testifying is a san fransisco firefighter to read as julie watts explains, he hopes that the feds take a cue from california which is rewriting its only seventies regulations. >> san francisco's rescue one is the busiest firehouse in the country. and he was the proud capt. in chile was forced to retire to a rare form of cancer. >> the type of cancer that is typically found in people in the chemical industry. i smile because i guess i do kind of work in the chemical industry. >> he refers to the flame retardant added to furniture to comply with the 1970's california flammable regulations. high levels of flame retardant linked to cancer are being found in the blood of firefighters believed to be from the toxic soot on their gear. but since the chemicals migrate and settle in dust, study show the flame retardant levels have dramatically increased in toddlers and

. >> senator barbara boxer, pleasure to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> chris, what will happen here? will tax cuts expire for people making $250,000 a year? what's going on here? >> well, you know, it's funny. i think people are so focused on the presidential election and understandably so. to me, and having worked on the hill a little time ago. the issue is the lame duck. the context of them raising the debt ceiling. given how dysfunctional the place is and given the recalsitrance, i think we will hit a cliff and we're going to fly right over it. >> the democrats are talking about the fiscal cliff. john, jim demint, the tea party senator said to "politico," republicans need to make clear we don't want anything to do with the government shutdown. we need to control the levels although i think they are too high. what does this mean for the republicans? >> i think the republicans want to show they are reasonable people. what they aren't going to do is balance the budget on the backs of the small business job creators in the country who are the best chance for economic revival. wh

barbara boxer to ask the republicans opposition to this common-sense measure begs the question what are they trying to hide? >> for more on the disclose act's defeat, let's go to senator bernie send aers, independent of vermont. senator, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> eliot: a sad day down in the capitol when an issue the disclose act that goes to the heart of the integrity of our democratic process can't get 60 votes in the senate. what happened? >> well, essentially what happens is republicans know they got a good deal going. they have billionaires who are pouring millions and millions of dollars into candidates for the republican party. it is working for them and they don't want to change it. the truth of the matter is, eliot, the bill before us today the disclose act, was a very, very modest bill. very modest. all that it is said is if you're going to be spending $10,000 or more, you have to have immediate disclosure. people have got to know who is paying for those ads. i don't think that's too much to ask for and it is a sad day for american democracy not one republic

diagnosed with breast cancer, yet in 2010, fiorina ran in california for the seat held by senator barbara boxerthe republican primary but lost to boxer in the general election. well, that's our edition of "60 minutes on cnbc." i'm lesley stahl.

they rubbed shoulders with senators like john mccain and barbara boxer yesterday.st and crew are only in the district for a few days one of the show's stars hatd has big plans for his time in d.c. >> i was hoping while i was here to be elected president of the united states, but that's not something that happens, right? >> you know, i don't think they do that very often. >> that's fine then. i don't need to do that. it would be nice. it would be the polite thing to do, but it's totally fine. i can live without it. >> you can see season 5. the premier of "parks and reek kr recreation" right here on nbc4. >>> potato chips come in different flavors. >> now the flavor you have always dreamed of could become a reality and could make you a million dollars. lays a holding a contest called do me a flavor. you can submit your idea for the next great chip on their facebook page and then they're going to pick three finalists. then lays will make those three styles of chips. america will vote on the ultimate winner. the prize, either a million bucks or 1% of the flavor's net s

guest: the leader who should get credit for passing this bill is barbara boxer.he was tenacious throughout the process in partnership with jim inhoff. insisted the house join them. they were able to reach an agreement with the house. host: next call comes from boston, massachusetts. frank is on our line for independents. caller: good morning. regarding the money that was returned to the state of florida. what happens to the money -- it is included in the budget from the previous year or redistributed? is the airline industry subsidized by the transportation department? guest: when governor scott decided not to except the high- speed rail grand that was received from the government, that was redistributed to about five different states. it has been put to work and will improve transportation in those five other states. the governor was within his rights to say no, thank you. that was a decision that florida made. the government provide support for airlines, without which you cannot have safe air travel. i don't think you could consider that the government subsidiz

i want to in particular acknowledge congressman howard bernman and senator barbara boxer who had doneork in shepherding through this bipartisan piece of legislation that underscores our unshakeable commitment to israel. as many of you know, i have made it a top priority for my administration to keepen cooperation with israel across the whole spectrum of security issues, intelligence, military, technology and in many ways what this legislation does is bring together all the outstanding cooperation that we have seen really at an unprecedented level between our two countries to underscore our unshakeable commitment to israel's security. i'm also very pleased that this week we are going to be able to announce $70 million in additional spending, $70 billion, excuse me in additional spending for iron dome. this is a program that has been critical in terms of providing security and safety for israeli families. it is a program that has been tested, and has prevented missile strikes inside of israel. and it is testimony to the leadership of the folks sitting here that we're going to able to lo

you go on to this a bunch of others, including chris dodd, barbara boxer, richard holbrooke -- these are particularly all democrats. were there any republicans? >> their there were some republicans. i know that bob bennett, his son ran one of the partnerships. there was across the aisle perches a patient. >> this vip program -- >> it is hard to know. you did not understand, but you could be sure they got special treatment about the process, with a lower interest rate, those types of things. the lower interest rate has the real benefit over time in a mortgage. >> you say, at the beginning of your book, josh and i -- >> josh is my fabulous co- author, who is a genius in the analysis of financial institutions and housing finance in particular. he is an analyst at gramm fisher in new york. he and i were -- we had never collaborated before on a book. he had been a source of mine for many years. he was one of the first to call out the home ownership goals as potentially faulty, and among the first to really point out that the kinds of mortgages that they were making were really going to lu

. >> link the signing, barbara boxer and congressman howard berman of california talked with reporters outside the white house. >> hi, everybody. i am senator barbara boxer from california, and this is congressman howard berman, and we're so pleased and grateful to this president for signing what i consider to be the most comprehensive american-israeli cooperation agreement that we have ever had in this nation. it is very broad, far reaching, very bipartisan. i wrote it with johnny isaccson in the senate and others in the house. howard will go into the details of it a little bit tell you what is. some of the main issues that we addressed here, an extension of loan guarantees for israel, an increase in our stockpiling of weapons to well over a billion, it pledges cooperation on every single front and really stand strong with israel at the u.n., trying to work on relations with nato and israel, so we are very excited, and i am ever so grateful to this president for standing with israel as such a loyal and dependable friend. congressman burr men. >> thank you, senator, and basically, what

it is because of barbara boxer that it got done because it is her bill -- i was on the conference committee bill we're going to get. when we could have had jobs bill after jobs bill for the last two years of the 112th congress. >> bill: he says the president is trying to distract us. he's refer fog the president -- referring to the president and the president's campaign suggest youing mitt romney should release more than one year or two years of his tax returns. you're a public official. do you think that politicians have a duty to -- >> presidential candidates -- every year i release -- not my entire tax return but i release what i've made, what the investments were, who paid me, for example. i am also an adjunct professor i was a full time professor at georgetown law school. list my income and all of my investments and where they come from. that's fairly rare. if you are a presidential candidate and you have what now we know to be offshore investments in the cayman islands and in sweden and in other tax sheltering countries you have an even greater obligation to release your tax forms bec

in washington, thursday and friday making came yes appearances on parks and recreation, barbara boxera cocktail party with the show at the adams hotel. the episode will air in late september. >> wait, the senator had the most fun in appearances over the weekend was pat leahy in the new batman movie. >> sure. >> second one in a row. >> speaking of batman warner brothers has not released the dark night rises. >> same for their movies. all putting up the official figures today but "new york times" reported on the information yesterday the film pulled in $162 million. if that holds true that would be below the $217 million that the avengers pulled in but more than the last batman movie. >> it's okay to ask: >> all right. that's a movie, itself pretty good. >> mayors against illegal guns. what's this about? >> you know, 13 others got together at grayson man shown. >> it makes it an especially poignant week, from colorado. 12 mayors from colorado, including mayor hancock from denver. started by mayor bloomberg pulling mayors together at the grassy mansion. >> their thought was it had gotten

i want to in particular acknowledge congressman howard berman and senator barbara boxer, who have done work in sheparding through this bi-partisan piece of legislation that underscores our unshakable commitment to israel. as many of you know i have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with israel across the whole spectrum of security issues, intelligence, military, technology, and in many ways what this legislation does is bring together all the outstanding corruption that we have seen really at an unprecedented level between our two countries that under score our unshakable committment to israel's security. i'm also very khraoese pleased that this week we are going ab toeubable to announce $70 million -- $70 billion excuse me in spending for aoeupb dome. this is a program that has been critical in terms of providing security and safety for israeli families. it is a program that has been tested, and has prevented missile strikes inside of israel. and it is a testimony to the leadership of the folks sitting here that we're going to be able to lock in that f

i want particularly to acknowledge congressman howard berman and senator barbara boxer who have doneutstanding work in shepherding through this bipartisan piece of legislation that underscores our commitment to israel. as many of you know, i have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with israel across the whole spectrum of security issues, intelligence, military, technology. in many ways, what this legislation does is bring together all the outstanding cooperation that we have seen really at an unprecedented level between our two countries that underscores our unshakeable commitment to israel should carry. i am also very pleased this week we're going to be able to announce $7 million in additional -- $70 million in additional -- excuse me, $70 billion in additional spending for iron dome. this is a program that has been critical in terms of providing security and safety for an israeli families. it is a program that has been tested and prevented missile strikes inside of israel. it is a testimony to the leadership of the folks sitting here that we will be

>> if you want to fight don't want it with barbara boxers right. ♪ everybody was kung fu fighting ♪ >ss should be shared with everyone but there's nothing individual about it. that's denying the american dream. >> noted cube -- cuban-born -- >> fiddle hussein -- >> [ laughter ] >> look mitch trying to bring this into the tax debate. >> if you are looking for the legislative equivalent of the president's now famous view that you didn't that this is it. [ mocking laughter ] >> god! how can you say that with no lips. >> here is another. >> wheel of right wing hypocrites. >> a top advisor for romney said the social program should be cut -- >> what? >> while romney often says the government doesn't create jobs the advisor said investing more in the military will generate more jobs. >> this study released late last year -- [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> found that non-military spending averaged between the three domestic airs of health care and clean air -- >> clearly that is a liberal bias. >> exactly. shirley in philadelphia, hi, shirley. >> hi, how are you? >> good. go ahead. >> we

we go to this dinner once a week and barbara boxer, barbara tonelli and i would be the three women who were going to this dinner. and it was instruct even met the guys we just always talk. they never said what you think of this? they all just talk over each other. so if you wanted to say anything, you just jumped in and spoke. it didn't work well when you went home and tried that. people would be like hey wait a minute, that's not how we have dinner around here. but that is how it was there. anyway, we always used to laugh that they would never think to turn to us and say, what do you think of that? because we weren't likely to do then the way they were jumping in. one guy -- we are all at dinner. they start talking about tonight, it evenings when they had their babies. we were just like, for sure they will say, what do you think? or does this make you uncomfortable? now, it was like i had on this green outfit and the doctor would land in the first time. the lat and the second time. i had my camera. i can show them to you. i went in, but i didn't stay long. i thought was going on and i

i am senator barbara boxer from california. we are both so pleased at so grateful to the president for citing what i consider to be the most comprehensive american and israeli cooperation agreement that we have ever had. it is a very broad, far reaching, and bipartisan. i wrote in the senate and erick kanter and others in the house. howard is going to go into the details of a little bit to tell you what it is. some of the main issues we have addressed here for israel, an increase in the stockpiling weapons from 400 million to well over 1 billion, it pledges cooperation on every single front and really stands a strong with israel at the un trying to work on relations with nato. so we are very excited and i am ever so grateful for this president for standing with israel at such high loyal and dependable friend. >> thank you, senator. what the senator has said is that this bill is the manifestation of the president's words, repeated a number of times as the bond between the united states and israel are unbreakable. this codify is

-- there have been logjams around here for awhile now, which i was very proud of my colleagues barbara boxer and jim inhofe working together to break the logjams in a spectacular way just two weeks ago on this same floor when they finally negotiated a two-year transportation bill, the flood insurance bill, the restore act and the student loan reduction bill which is remarkable work that the congress did just last week. in the event that the cantor proposal fails and the schumer proposal fails, i'm hoping to offer an amendment that the leadership is considering now that was put together by the snowe staff and senator snowe and the landrieu staff and myself over the course of the last several weeks. i'm not the only name -- the only name an this right now is mine but it has been put together by a variety of senators who have been working across the aisle for months now on items that are really important to the small business community. again, we have 28 million small businesses in america. 22 million of them are single employers. in other words, they are self-employed professionals that are ei

barbara boxer, barbara canelli and i were the three women.he gas would only talk -- in ever said, what you think? they would all talk over each other. you had to just jump in and speak. it did not work well when you went home and tried that. people would be like, wait a minute, that is not how we have been around here. we always used to laugh, the three of us, that they would never think to turn to us and say, what do you think of that, because we were not likely to jump in the way they were. one night, we are all at dinner. they start talking about the evenings when they had their babies. [laughter] we would have thought for sure they will say, what do you think? [laughter] that they they said -- the doctor would not let me in, the second, i had my camera, pictures, i can show them to you. [laughter] i went in, but i did not stay long. when i saw what was going on, i went out the door. they all had their views. the three of us were thinking -- we have 11 children among the three of us. barbara has to, i have five. foreshore, tridymite a cour

the front row but particular i want to recognize senator boxer and congressman mica, whose leadership make this bill a reality. and although barbaran't make it, we want to make sure everybody acknowledges the hard work john did on this bill. [applause] now, we're doing this late on friday afternoon because i just got back from spending the past two days talking with folks in ohio and pennsylvania about how our challenge as a country isn't just to reclaim all of the jobs that were lost to the recession, although obviously that's job number one. it's also to reclaim the economic security that so many americans have lost over the past decade. i believe with every fiber of my being a strong economy comes not from the top down but from a strong middle class. that means having a good job that pays a good wage. home to call your home. health care and retirement savings that are there when you need them. good education for kids so they can do even better than you do. and that's why for months i have been calling on congress to past several common sense ideas that will have an immediate impact on the economic security of american families.