Honorable Barbara Boxer
United States Senator, California, Democrat
Senator Boxer was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992. She served on the Marin County, California, Board of Supervisors from 1976 to 1982, and as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1982 to 1992. She sits on the following committees: Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Environment and Public Works, where she is the Ranking Minority Member; and Foreign Relations. She is also Vice Chair of the Select Committee on Ethics. The following is from the June 2, 2015, Senate floor debate on H.R. 2048, the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015. Playing politics with our national security…