Barbara Boxer--The Incumbent

Barbara Boxer is the Democratic Candidate for seeking to maintain her seat in the United States Senate. Barbara Boxer was born on November 11, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Brooklyn College where she got her bachelor’s degree in Economic. In 1982 she was elected into the House of Representative for the state of California. In 1992 she was elected into the Senate. With the help of endorsers like the California Young Democrats, the California Teachers Association, the Sacramento Bee and the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi she now seeks reelection for the fourth time. This is his position on some of the issues that are of great importance to this nation

Jobs and the Economy
Since she has been in the Senate, Barbara Boxer has supported the government in giving California Billions in Federal Funds in order to improve Schools, Highways, and to help in the recovery natural disasters and wild fires. She was a strong supporter of the Economic Stimulus Plan provided by President Obama which in the long run will provide about 400,000 of jobs in California. In order to avoid the repetition of the current Mortgage Crisis, she has supported legislation to revise for the mandatory licensing of mortgage loan originators.

Healthcare Reform
Barbara Boxer wants to ensure that people in California receive good and affordable health care; she has introduced legislation that will create a $2000 deduction in order to pay part of the premium cost in health care. She wrote one of the nation’s first bills that would create a Patient's Bill of Rights. This would ensure that medical decisions are made between the doctors and their patients, not by the HMO Bureaucrats. She has cosponsored legislation that will help to reduce the cost of prescription drugs under the Medicare plan, something that the Bush administration took away. She wants to ensure that communities provide opportunities for physical activity in order to reduce child obesity. She has also supported legislation that will give medical access to immigrant children under the SCHIP and Medicaid programs.

Immigration
Barbara Boxer supports keeping our borders safe but she wants to keep the solutions reasonable. She wants citizenship access to immigrant families who what citizen children in this country. She does not want children who are citizens to be left orphans in this country because their parents have been deported. She has worked with different organizations like SouthWest Voter, LULAC, and MALDEF in order to help immigrants gain legal status. She is so supportive of these solutions because she is a first generation immigrant from her mother’s side.

[by Daniela Michel]