As Barbara Boxer, an environmentally-minded senator from California, stated gleefully, “This decision puts the wind at our back.”

就像来在加利福尼亚的一个有环保思想的议员所说的“这个决定把thewind放在了我们的背上”。

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She will try to deny a fourth term to Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

The winner will face a tough challenge in the general election against long-time liberal Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of computer giant Hewlett-Packard, is seeking the Republican nomination in the race against Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

Senator BARBARA BOXER (Democrat, California): It is a Democratic, it is Independent, it is Republican.

NPR: Senate to Vote on Carbon Cap-and-Trade Bill

Senator Barbara Boxer sighed and said that only Democrats, with a 60-seat majority, could save humanity.

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In fact, just today, the Environment and Public Works Committee, under the leadership of Senator Barbara Boxer, is holding the Senate's first hearings on this bill.

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