mrs. boxer: thank you, tom. mr. carperer: i want to take a minute or so today, madam president, to talk about an amendment i filed to this legislation along with senators kirk and senator warner, to whom i offer my sincere thanks, as well as to a whole lot of organizations around the -- around the country who have supported this legislation. as you may know, under current law, a small number of states around our country now enjoy the flexibility to implement tolls on interstate highways. under the amendment that we filed, some additional states could choose to apply for that same flexibility. states would only or could only use toll revenues, a type of user fee, to pay for additional transportation investments along those roads that are actually being tolled. in delaware and a handful of other states, interstate toll revenue is an important part of our state's transportation budget. senators kirk, warner and i believe that other states should have the same option available to them. however, in an effort to move this

mrs. boxer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from california is recognized. mrs. boxer: mr. president, just for the people who are watching this debate, we are talking about a transportation bill. we are talking about preserving the jobs that go with that. 1.8 million jobs and an additional one million that will be created. but you're hearing a debate about which we should roll back a proposed rule that controls the following -- poisons, mercury, arsenic, lead, chromium, benzine, toxic soot, to just name a few. and if anyone believes that all this legislation is about is a delay, then they don't know, because this amendment which has been called the e.p.a. regulatory relief act would forever change the current standards allowed for mercury, arsenic, lead, chromium, benzene , box i can soot and other dangerous pollutions. so it not only delays a rule that is critical, and i will tell you the number of lives that will be saved because of it, but it changes the standards for these toxin

mrs. boxer: mr. president, i've send e sent the managers -- i've sent the managers to the desk. under the provisions of the previous order, i ask that it be agreed to. the presiding officer: is there objection? the managers' package is agreed to, without objection. mrs. boxer: mr. president, i understand senator shaheen no longer intends to offer her amendment, so we can strike that from the list. the presiding officer: would the senator yield? the senate is not in order. the senate will come to order. the senator from california. mrs. boxer: mr. president, it's my understanding that senator shaheen no longer intends to offer her amendment. and i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll quorum call: quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: without objection. senate not in order. please take your conversations out of

mrs. boxer: mr. president, would you tell us what the order is at this time. the presiding officer: we're in -- morning business is closed, ma'am. i'm sorry. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of senate bill 1813, which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 311, s. 1813, a bill to reauthorize federal aid highway and highway safety construction programs and for other purposes. mrs. boxer: mr. president, we are back on -- the presiding officer: under the previous order, the time until 12:00 noon will be equally divided and controlled between the two sides with the final ten minutes equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees, with the majority leader controlling the final five minutes. the senator from california. box mr. president, thank you so very much. we are back here on our fourth week trying to get a transportation bill through this body. and to me, it is a very sad statement about the dysfunction of this body that we spent ap

mrs. boxer: more than that. about 4,500. mr. durbin: 4,500 jobs lost right now because speaker boehner refuses to call this bill. that's the reality. that's the reality. is it any wonder that the approval rating of congress is in single digits, when you take a hard look at what this does to our nation, at a time when we need congress to work together, the speaker won't call the bipartisan bill from the senate. the senate won't take up postal reform. the senate refuses to even cut the $4 billion subsidy to the biggest oil companies in america. you know, it's a disappointment to me because many of us worked hard to come here. i feel honored to have this job and feel a responsibility to the people we represent. i think the senate on those two votes i mentioned, and the house with their action today has let the people of this country down. i'd like to yield now to the senator from california. i have another statement to make, but i want to give her a chance. i yield. mrs. boxer: madam president. the

mrs. boxer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from california is recognized. mrs. boxer: i would ask that i be allowed to speak for five minutes and then senator murray conclude our side with five. the presiding officer: without t objection without objection, sot objection, so ordered. mrs. boxer: mr. president, i have news for supporters of the blunt amendment. we were not born yesterday, and no matter how much you say this is nothing more than a restatement of old laws, the facts just are not with you. we have never had a conscience clause for insurance companies. and if you wanted to give them a chance to say "no," a lot of them don't have any consciences, they'll take it. and this is what blunt does. it allows any insurance company that doesn't want to provide a service -- maybe an expensive service -- to say, "oh, i meant to tell you, i have a moral objection to this." what a situation. how many people have struggled with their insurance companies to get them to cover what they've paid for, for years and years and years only to have the insurance company say, s

mrs. boxer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from california is recognized. mrs. boxer: what is the parliamentary situation at this time? the presiding officer: the majority leader retains 16 minutes in time. mrs. boxer: i'm confused a little bit, because didn't the minority have extra time? did they ask for extra time? spoeup she asked for -- the presiding officer: she asked for object and no one consented. mrs. boxer: i would ask consent that i have an additional 5 minutes on to the 16. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mrs. boxer: madam president, i think it's very important that we understand what we're trying to do here. the senator from alaska said it's been a good debate. yeah, it's been a good debate. but let me tell you what's not good. what's not good is that big oil is getting corporate welfare. big oil is ripping us off at the pump. they never had greater profits. we're being asked to sacrifice and pay more at the pump becaus

mrs. boxer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from california is recognized. mrs. boxer: thank you. madam president, before the senator from maryland leaves the floor, i think it's an opportunity to thank her so much for really speaking the truth today on the floor of the senate. just the facts. and what the blunt amendment is about and isn't about. and also, as i watched her recite really the history of trying to bring preventive care and essential health care benefits to our people, realizing that she was in that pivotal position in the "help" committee. and i remember her looking at me one day, because we're very close friends. we're not on that particular which the. and she said to me, she said, senator kennedy asked me -- i just get the chills when i think of it -- to take on this issue of prevention and work with tom harkin and chris dodd and step up to the plate on these essential benefits and on preventive benefits. and she literally raised this issue, particularly on the prevention side. i don't know if you remember in caucuses, on the floor, in the committ

mrs. boxer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i want to thank my friend from minnesota. i want to say to her that her leadership when she was on the environment and public works committee was amazing. we miss her leadership there. but she's working so hard on other committees. but she still carries in her heart a great understanding that if anything is bipartisan around here, it's the highway bill. it's the transportation programs. we proved it here. i want to talk a little bit about it. so i thank her. i want to talk a little bit about big oil and this crying about big oil by my republican friends here. and then i'm going to segway to the tpwaolgts pass a transportation bill -- to a battle to pass a transportation bill and the three million jobs that hang in the balance. first i have to say i listened very hard to the republican leader, senator mcconnell, talk about what a useless thing it is to try and say to big oil, who's had these big subsidies for so long, decade after decade, started when they were young companies, t

mrs. boxer: mr. president, i'm going to speak against the vitter amendment because i think it is a huge danger to our economy, and i will explain why. and it's a huge overreach by the federal government into the abilities of the states to determine if they want a recreation industry, if they want a fishing industry, if they want a tourist industry. i will speak more about it, but before i do that, i want to let meme know where we are. -- i want to let people know where we are. thanks to the extraordinary patience of our majority leader, harry reid, today we finally have a path forward to the transportation bill. and i want to say, normally i would name lots of other people. yes, we've all been involved. but senator harry reid is extraordinary, and he sat in his office last night, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 -- i was calling him, finding out what's happening, i was calling his great staff he has, working with my staff and senator inhofe's staff, who i have grown to respect so much; given all the issu

mrs. boxer thank you very much. i just thought i could give the senators and those who may be following this very elongated debate on the highway bill an update as to where we are. we have a managers' package that we're hoping to approve momentarily. it is a bipartisan package. we continue to work across the aisle. and under the consent, we want to move forward with that. we had a by th bit of a holdup yesterday. we're working to find out why, but we're very hopeful that that will move forward. then we have a series of votes on amendments, beginning at about noon. so at 11:30 or so we'll be back on the bill. and i just wanted to say to my friends on the other side of the aisle and my friends on this side of the aisle that we are making great progress. this is a jobs bill. this is a major jobs bill. this is the biggest jocks bill. now, they passed an i.p.o. bill over there in the house. eric cantor is saying it is a jobs bill. i don't know how many jobs it will create. it's an investor bill. it's

mrs. boxer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. oxer: madam president, you thought i would use this opportunity to just inform our colleagues and anyone who is following this transportation debate as to where we are. yesterday we had an opportunity to stop the filibuster and get right to our bill and get it done and protect 1.8 million jobs and create another million. we didn't do that -- pretty much a party-line vote. the filibuster continues. the hopeful sign we had was right before that vote republicatherepublican leader se would open to an agreement, to reaching an agreement. i was hopeful that agreement would not contain extraneous votes. i don't think that that's going to happen. i think we're going to face extraneous votes to repeal clean air act rules, to open up our states that rely on fishing and tourism and recreation to i will drilling when we know the oil companies have millions of acres of land to drill on without going to these areas that are so essential to our economic and environmental future. we look like we're go

mrs. boxer: i ask for the yeas and nays on the nomination. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: does any senator still wish to vote or to change his or her vote? if not, on this nomination the ayes are 59 and the nays are 39 and the nominee is confirmed. under the previous order, the question is on the morgan nomination. a senator: the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be a sufficient second. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or to change their vote? if not, on this vote, the yeas are 896, the nays are 1, and the no, ma'am -- the yeas are 96, the nays are 1 and the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid on the table, any statements will be printed in the record, the president will be immediately note fietd of the senate's a

mrs. boxer: mr. president, what an incredible milestone senator mikulski has reached. and the words of her colleagues and the love that they feel for her is coming through. and it is a wonderful thing for me to be part of this tribute. i don't know how many senators would have the governor of their state here when they're honored, and the former distinguished incredible senator paul sarbanes is here. that in itself, senator mikulski, is testimony to your status among all of us. and so many of us are here in the senate because barbara mikulski knocked down the barriers one by one. the first democratic woman ever elected to the senate in her own right. the first woman to serve in both chambers. the longest serving woman in the senate. and now she has made history once again. this past saturday after 12,858 distinguished days of service, no other woman in history has served in congress longer than senator mikulski. ever. now, some trailblazers make history and they're content to stand proudly alone. i did it. but not senator mikulski. she always made clear she was honored

mrs. boxer: it's hard to believe we're having a debate in 2012 about protecting women sister sphr from violence but i ask unanimous consent to place my full statement in the record and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from arizona. mr. kyl: let me return to the pending business before the senate, the jobs act. at a moment when millions of americans are looking for work, we have an opportunity to do something in a bipartisan way that will actually help job creators and entrepreneurs. despite all the hype about economic improvements, we're still experiencing the slowest and weakest recovery since the great depression. more than 45 million americans are on food stamps. unemployed has been -- unemployment has been higher than 8% for three years. there are 700,000 fewer jobs today than when president obama took office. 700,000 fewer jobs today. and on top of that, of course, gas prices are skyrocketing. as i noted on monday, the president is painting i believe

mrs. boxer: mr. president, what an incredible milestone senator mikulski has reached. and the words of her colleagues and the love that they feel for her is coming through. and it is a wonderful thing for me to be part of this tribute. i don't know how many senators would have the governor of their state here when they're honored, and the former distinguished incredible senator paul sarbanes is here. that in itself, senator mikulski, is testimony to your status among all of us. and so many of us are here in the senate because barbara mikulski knocked down the barriers one by one. the first democratic woman ever elected to the senate in her own right. the first woman to serve in both chambers. the longest serving woman in the senate. and now she has made history once again. this past saturday after 12,858 distinguished days of service, no other woman in history has served in congress longer than senator mikulski. ever. now, some trailblazers make history and they're content to stand proudly alone. i did it. but not senator mikulski. she always made clear she was honored

i heard mrs. boxer did on the floor and said there were no women on the panel. even showed a picture. they had to paddles and there were no women on the first panel. on the second panel, there were two women. guest: is the major panel had no women on it. he saw the picture. they're talking about women's health care. i do not think -- that would not happen if there were more conservative women on that committee. i hope you consider running. i do think we need more women to step up and run for office. is focused on electing pro-choice democratic women. we've had good success, but i am hoping for better success. on the democratic side, we have seen an historic number of democratic candidates step and not to run across the country. -- stepped up to run across the country. stepping up to say it is time to change the dynamics of the united states senate. that is what we need to be doing. --t: one last wtweet one final article. certain list owns states. this is a story i am looking at from san jose. the report -- "who owns your member of congress?' you expect something

barbara boxer making the same point. >> mr. blunt is giving insurance companies a way to say oh, we really feel sorry you have cancer and are really sad you have diabetes. we are really torn apart you might have a stroke, but you know what? we have a moral objection. >> blunts-rubio losing 51--48. voting with the democratic majority: with the republican minority: patty murray and chuck schumer explaining what the majority did and what should concern women in the fall election. >> we defeated an amendment that would have takenna away something women in this country have counted on for decades and that's the ability to make their own health care choices in the privacy of their homes. >> the closeness of this vote show how high the stakes are for women this year. a republican-led senate might pass this bill. a republican president like mitt romney would definitely sign it. >> definitely, maybe. romney having trouble finding his bearings about this. >> remember what i said? i don't remember what i said. >> foundering much more seri

mr. senator murray, senator boxer, also intorg the bill are senator collins and snowe and senator mccaskill, stabenow and gillibrand. the bill is led by senator leahy and senator crapo so we're here to pledge our support for this bill and ask our colleagues to move forward for this bill. the violence against women was a landmark bill when it first became law in 1984. back then it started a sea change in it is a tiewdz and sent a strong message to the country saying that sexual assault and domestic violence are serious offenses that will not be tolerated. we heard that message loud and clear in my state, and i'm proud to say that our state has always had a strong tradition of standing up against these crimes. in fact, no conversation in our state about domestic abuse would be complete without mentioning former senator paul wellstone and his wife sheila, who we miss dearly. the wellstones put so much time and energy into bringing these issues out of the shadows into taking a subject that many people considered at the time a family matter and saying, you know, what? domestic violence isn't jus

mr. senator murray, senator boxer, also intorg the bill are senator collins and snowe and senator mccaskill, stabenow and gillibrand. the bill is led by senator leahy and senator crapo so we're here to pledge our support for this bill and ask our colleagues to move forward for this bill. the violence against women was a landmark bill when it first became law in 1984. back then it started a sea change in it is a tiewdz and sent a strong message to the country saying that sexual assault and domestic violence are serious offenses that will not be tolerated. we heard that message loud and clear in my state, and i'm proud to say that our state has always had a strong tradition of standing up against these crimes. in fact, no conversation in our state about domestic abuse would be complete without mentioning former senator paul wellstone and his wife sheila, who we miss dearly. the wellstones put so much time and energy into bringing these issues out of the shadows into taking a subject that many people considered at the time a family matter and saying, you know, what? domestic violence isn't jus

mr. senator murray, senator boxer, also intorg the bill are senator collins and snowe and senator mccaskill stabenow and gillibrand. the bill is led by senator leahy and senator crapo so we're here to pledge our support for this bill and ask our colleagues to move forward for this bill. the violence against women was a landmark bill when it first became law in 1984. back then it started a sea change in it is a tiewdz and sent a strong message to the country saying that sexual assault and domestic violence are serious offenses that will not be tolerated. we heard that message loud and clear in my state, and i'm proud to say that our state has always had a strong tradition of standing up against these crimes. in fact, no conversation in our state about domestic abuse would be complete without mentioning former senator paul wellstone and his wife sheila, who we miss dearly. the wellstones put so much time and energy into bringing these issues out of the shadows into taking a subject that many people considered at the time a family matter and saying, you know, what? domestic violence isn't just

mr. reid: i ask i notwithstanding is $1013, boxer amendment 1903 be agreed to, boxer amendment is 234eubg cal in nature, strikes title 5 with the heading entitled "research and innovative technology administrative reauthorization act of 2012." which was moved to division e. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i also ask unanimous consent that s. 2076 be discharged from the committee on homeland security. and be referred to the committee on the judiciary committee. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: s. 2204 is at the desk due for its first reading. is that right? the presiding officer: the senator is correct. the clerk will report. the clerk: s. 22204, a bill to amendment unnecessary tax subsidies and promote renewable energy and energy conservation. mr. reid: i ask for a second reading but object to my own request. officer objection is heard. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the bill will be read the second time on the negs legislative day. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until tours

mrs. obama is scheduled to attend a commissioning ceremony for the cutter, with senator barbara boxer. e second event for mrs. obama's bay area visit. yesterday she appeared at golden gate park to attend a democratic fund-raiser. supporters paid between 5 to $7500 to meet the first lady. the attorney general introduced police obama and says her speech focused on upcoming fight for the white house. >> when we look at this election, there's going to be a choice of either going back to things the way they've been or pushing forward, and staying committed to the change we first fought for in 2008, and seeing it through. >> about 300 people attended the fund-raiser. >>> employees returned to work out a food processing plant following a carbon dioxide leak. 95 workers at ghiringhelli foods were sent to the hospital yesterday with nausea and headaches caused by carbon dioxide gas fumes from a refrigeration unit in the kitchen. the company owner told ktvu he is not convinced there was actually a malfunctions of his theory was that this was hysteria, some type of false alarm. >> i do know when p

mr. chamberlain did not have a knife when it was in his apartment, when i saw the video. you see a 68-year-old man with no shirt on and boxerhorts and his hands at his sides. i did not see any weapons in his hands. the other thing that is troubling, that a taser was used at all. you are there for a medical response, not investigating a criminal act. you are there with the understanding there may be a person needs medical assistance. >> for a man with a heart condition, no less critics absolutely. to use a taser, which is going to send significant electricity through the person's body, at best would be reckless. that alone could cause his death. the thing that is troubling to me is, the police were not there to respond to criminal activity. they went to the gentleman's house to give him assistance at 5:00 in the morning. the only reason he and the like a pendant was so his family and he would be comfortable if something were to occur, he would be able to get assistance. >> i want to read part of the initial news coverage around the killing of kenneth chamberlain, senior. the headline on the news 12 website read "officer fata

. >> with he and barbara boxer, put those two together and you have something. >> yeah. >> mr.tion here: why only two years? when you were in the house, these bills were what? five or six years? right? >> yeah, because -- because that's the amount of money that they could find, bill. look. these things have to be paid for now. so they took highway trust funds, and then they found other money and they could come up with $109,000,000,000. that that gets them a two-year bill. >> that's the reason. >> that's the only reason. >> mr. secretary, this is something i find fascinating. i would like your comment because you were in the house at a time i am not going to describe. it seems fascinating to me right now in the house, you can find more votes to completely restructure medicare and medicaid under the paul ryan budget because you get out of committee and they will vote it on the floor. it's easy to find votes in the house republican majority for than than that for a treatyansportation bill. >> that's amazing. >> it is because i think most people realize i don't know if these fresh

boxer told us today. extensions in some states aren't worth the paper that this extension will be written on because, mr.president, you know that most of these projects are funded by 75% approximately federal money, 25% local. well, in the old days, when states were flush with cash and people were running surpluses, when we messed up in congress -- like we're messing up now - and not giving them a transportation bill on time -- some of our states could just dip into their local money, keep their projects going waiting for us to do our job. mr. president, those days are over. do you know any state in the union running a massive surplus right now? do you know any state, anywhere? i don't. because states have drawn down their reserves. they're running on very tight budgets because they're all coming out of this recession. even our state that has a very low unemployment rate relative to everybody else, that really never experienced the recession like everyone else did, we still are running pretty sizable deficits at the state level. i can tell you, my state doesn't have any extra cash to front the federal go

mr. president, i've been here this is my 20th year along withr my friend and colleague, senatot boxer. over the last ten years, what might seem is more and more attacks on women, women's health, stemming largely from the abortion business but not ad only that, we have fought and senator mikulski has led the way against equal pay discrimination.title attacks on title tan family planning grants and programs,ed attempt to defund plannedit parenthood, to limit access to preventiveea health care such at these attacks to limit a woman's right to make her own reproductive health care choicey unprecedented level. i'm not going to go into thee, specifics of some of them, butpe trust me, i never thought i would see people in publicls office before word some of the forwardme. have i believe strongly that all women should have access to to d comprehensive reproductive cares should be able to decide fort themselves how to use that care regardless of where they were oa what insurance they have. the other side of the bottle hac tried to take away access not ao only to contraception, but also that ay

thankfully, senators boxer and inhofe really understand it too. i want to thank them for that. mr. president, i suggest -- mr. president, i now ask to speak on another matter. mr. president, president truman once said healthy citizens constitute our greatest national resource. two years ago last week we passed the affordable care act. we passed it to help give every american access to quality, affordable health care. people like zeez from helena, montana know how much this health care law provides. doctors diagnosed her by age seven. by high school she carried an oxygen tank. she received a double lung transplant. even with insurance companies, she and her family paid tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket. things looked even worse when she hit an arbitrary coverage limit. if she had lost her insurance before health reform, she might not have been able to find any insurance coverage at all. insurance companies could have turned her away simply because she was born with cystic fibrosis. but know thanks to the affordable care act, she will always be covered. she will always have

mrs. boxer: i'd like order, please. the presiding officer: could we have order, please. thank you. mrs. boxer: colleagues, i think we are now at the last amendment so please hear me out. if you care about your constituency, you've got to vote no on this. the implication is that the senator is waiving environmental rules, health and safer rules after a disaster. it's not true. read the amendment. it's any kind of reconstruction for any safety purpose. if you have a bridge in your great state that's over 50 years old, it has lead and it has asbestos. every health and safety reg that deals with the safe disposal of just those two toxics led alone pcb's and others, it's waived. one speck of asbestos in your lungs and you know what happens. in the days bill, in the underlying bill senator inhofe and i have expedited reviews dramatically. we came together on it. it was tough negotiation. stick with us and please vote no on this dangerous amendment. the presiding officer: the question is -- mrs. boxer:

mrs. boxer: i have a parliamentary inquiry. did senator demint use up his one minute that he had before the vote? the presiding officer: that's correct. mrs. boxer: all right. well, i would ask that i have an additional 15 seconds since he went over that much. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be one minute debate in opposition prior to a vote in relation to amendment 1756, offered by the senator from south carolina. mrs. boxer: so i'm asking for that. fine. i just think this is so critical. the demint amendment is the end of the federal highway and transportation system. it's a system that's been in place since republican president dwight eisenhower told us how critical it was. he said in the 1950's, "the transportation bill's impact on the american economy, the jobs it would produce in manufacturing, construction, the rural areas. iit would open up are beyond calculation. "ronald reagan said, "it has enabled our commerce to thrive, our country to grow, and our people

mrs. boxer: i ask the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: you know because you're such a leader on the issue of jobs for america that the senate passed a very important bill last week. it's called map-21, moving ahead for progress in the 21st century. and what it did was reauthorize our transportation programs as they relate to highways, our bridges, and our transit systems. this was a very difficult bill to get done because it took a lot of compromise. my friend in the chair knows this. he comes from vermont, where they have had a lot of issues with rebuilding their roads after disasters, and he knows how important it is especially in those rural areas to make sure we have a good transportation system. both in our roads, our freeways, and our mass transit. so we got this bill done. and, mr. president, it was remarkable. 74 votes, actually it would have been 75 votes, one of our colleagues was at a funeral. he was for the bill. so three-fourths of the senate supported that bill. and we exciteddedly found out that some house members wer

mrs. boxer: what are these bills? these are bills that called for equity for women to get contraceptive coverage if they were given other coverage. they had the right to get contraceptive coverage. ted kennedy was a leader. he is a cosponsor on all of these bills. do you know for how many years, mr. president? 12 years. 12 years ted kennedy fought for women to get access to contraceptive coverage in their insurance. so i just say to my republican friends don't come to the floor and invoke the name of our dear colleague. i was so proud, the first thing i did when i came to the senate, he asked me if i would help him work on a bill to protect people who were going to clinics. women's clinics that were being harassed at the clinic door, and you know what? i worked it for him. i helped him on the floor. i was so proud we won that, and now there is a safety zone for women when they go to a clinic for health care, their reproductive health care. that was ted kennedy. yes, ted kennedy supported a conscience clause. we all do