U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, minority chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is billed as “a forceful advocate for families, children, consumers, the environment, and her state of California,” according to her biography.
Boxer previously announced that she would not be running for re-election in 2016, after 22 years of service. Since January of this year, she’s has been busy sponsoring several bills, the most recent on Feb. 11 to amend the tax code and increase the credit for employers establishing workplace childcare facilities.
One day before, she initiated a bill to prohibit the marketing of electronic cigarettes to children.
Boxer’s bills range from support for women’s reproductive healthcare decisions to a bill to provide land to the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the first bill of the year she initiated on Jan. 13.
The Senator has been equally busy co-sponsoring 39 other bills since January, the most recent on Feb. 11 to amend the Social Security Act “to improve the quality, health outcomes, and value of maternity care under the Medicaid and CHIP programs.” Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced that bill.
