The Senate meets today; the House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]
U.S. Senator, California

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Barbara Boxer’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	California [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Nov 11, 1940 / 69 years old

To contact Barbara Boxer, visit her official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Boxer for more biographical and issue information.

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“Speaking on the floor of the Senate about the health care bill at about 3pm Pacific. Check it out on CSpan..” (Nov 20, 2009)

Official YouTube Feed

“10-08-09: Senator Boxer on Women's Health and Reform” - Nov 18, 2009 10:21 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 10-08-09 1:03:50 to 1:07:05 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Barbara Boxer:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Senator	California	(Most Recent Term Began in 2005) (was preceeded by Alan Cranston)
1983-1992	U.S. Representative	California’s 6^th	(was preceeded by Phillip Burton)

Sponsorship Analysis

Boxer is a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Boxer is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Boxer sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Boxer’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Boxer, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Boxer and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Boxer.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Boxer's bills without Boxer returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Approval Rating

SurveyUSA reports Boxer’s job approval rating at 46% as of 2007-11-20. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

Barbara Boxer missed 557 (8%) of 7353 votes since Jan 23, 1990. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Boxer in 2007-2008 was $373,814 from employees of EMILY's List. Barbara Boxer’s net worth was between $1,113,009 and $5,347,000 in 2007, according to Boxer’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Boxer.

Committee Membership

Barbara Boxer sits on the following committees:

Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Ethics

Member, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security

Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance

Member, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard

Member, Subcommittee on Science and Space

Member, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine

Member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Chairman, Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues

Member, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Member, Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection

Member, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Barbara Boxer has sponsored 420 bills since Feb 4, 1991 of which 355 haven't made it out of committee and 13 were successfully enacted. Boxer has co-sponsored 2018 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Boxer and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Boxer’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S.Res. 292: A resolution congratulating the Park View All-Star Little League team for winning the 2009 Little League World Series championship.
	S.Res. 265: A resolution honoring the firefighters who sacrificed their lives while battling the Station Fire in southern California in August 2009.
	S. 1754: Home Office Deduction Simplification Act of 2009
	S. 2079: A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on acai, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
	S. 2080: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on hand blown glass vases.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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