Did the poor lad convert and get circumsized?
Hil didn't do too much. Babs was the Congresswoman from the next district down the road 10 years B4 42 and 44 and Chelsea moved into the WH. Probably didn't even get that much help to get elected Senator; it helped more that she was running against one of those sexually repressed Repubs.
I wish she would get a divorce.
Barbara Levy was born to a Jewish family and a Polish-born mother in Brooklyn, New York, attended public schools, and graduated from Wingate High School in 1958. She also attended Camp Kinder Ring in Hopewell Junction, New York as a child. [1] Levy graduated from Brooklyn College in 1962 with a degree in Economics. That same year she married Stewart Boxer.
Boxer worked as a stockbroker for the next three years, while her husband went through law school. Later, the couple moved to Greenbrae, Marin County, California, and had two children, Doug and Nicole. During the 1970s Boxer worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun and as a congressional aide.[2] In 1976, Boxer was elected to the Marin County Board of Supervisors, serving for six years.[3] She served as the first woman president of the board for a portion of those years.[4]
In 1994, their daughter, Nicole Boxer, married Tony Rodham, brother of then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a ceremony at the White House. The couple had one son, Zachary, and divorced in 2000.[5]
Boxer's first novel A Time to Run, published in 2005 by San Francisco-based publishing company Chronicle Books, was released to mixed reviews.[6]
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Boxer was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982, where she represented California District 6 (Marin County) for five terms.[7]
During this time she focused on human rights, environmental protection, military procurement reform, and pro-choice issues. She was also involved in seeking protection for whistleblowers in government and pushed for higher budget allocations for health, biomedical research, and education.
Boxer, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, exposed, with the help of the Project on Military Procurement (now POGO), the '$7,600 Pentagon coffee pot' and successfully passed more than a dozen procurement reforms.
However, Boxer also was involved in the House banking scandal in which congressmen, herself included, wrote bad checks in large amounts, an issue that the Sacramento Bee covered in a March 1, 1992 article quoting Boxer as admitting she didn't pay enough attention to her House bank account. More specifically, that meant 143 bad checks totaling $41,417 over a three-year period that she had written on the House bank.[citation needed]
In 1991, during the Anita Hill Senate hearings, where Hill accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, Boxer led a group of women House members to the Senate Judiciary Committee -- demanding that the all-white, all-male Committee of Senators take Hill's charges seriously.[8] This helped propel Boxer's candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 1992, when a record number of women ran for the U.S. Senate.
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Senator Boxer's predecessor, Democrat Alan Cranston, retired in 1992. She won the open seat contest in the U.S. Senate election, 1992, defeating Bruce Herschensohn, a conservative television commentator, by 3 percentage points after a last-minute revelation that Herschenson had attended a strip club.[9] In 1998 she was re-elected for a second term, beating Matt Fong, a former state treasurer, by 10 percentage points.[10] She had decided to retire in 2004 but says she decided to recontest to "fight for the right to dissent" against conservatives like Tom DeLay. After facing no primaries opposition in the 2004 election, Boxer decisively defeated Republican candidate Bill Jones, a former California Secretary of State, by a margin of 20%, garnering the highest number of votes in the history of direct elections for the U.S. Senate (with 6,955,728 votes [11]) in the nation's most populous state, and the third highest vote total in the country in 2004 (behind only presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry).
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