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Democratic US Senator from California
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Noteworthy Barbara Boxer News:
Boxer has co-written two novels with mixed reviews
In January 2005, Boxer joined US Rep. Tubbs Jones of Ohio in filing a US Congressional objection to the
certification of Ohio's Electoral College votes in the 2004 US presidential election; the Senate shot the objection down 74-1
Upon their election in 1992, Boxer and Dianne Feinstein became the first two female Jewish US Senators
In 1991, Boxer led a march of female lawmakers from the House to the Senate to demand a hearing on Anita Hill's allegations
that Clarence Thomas had harassed her
Boxer exposed the "$7,600 Pentagon coffee pot" as a member of the House Armed Services Committee
Boxer was first elected to the US House in 1982 with the slogan "Barbara Boxer Gives a Damn"
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