Barbara Boxer

Barbara Levy Boxer ( born November 11, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American politician. It represents since 1993 the U.S. state of California in the U.S. Senate.

Born as Barbara Levy, she was in her younger years first stock exchange trader, then a journalist and co-editor of the Pacific Sun. Finally, she moved to California and became involved there for the Democrats, in January 1983, she was elected as a Congressman in the House of Representatives.

Since 1993, Barbara Boxer - now the fourth time (2010) - served as Senator of the West Coast State of California in the U.S. Senate, which she represents the one of the three states with two female senators (along with Dianne Feinstein, beside still Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe in Maine, and Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell in Washington). It is considered an important representative of the left-liberal wing of the Democrats in the Senate and becomes particularly for environmental, women's, children's and civil rights (including homosexuals ), as well as for work and economy strong. In the Senate, it is since 2007 Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Ethics Committee.

2002/2003 they voted as one of the few senators opposed the Iraq war. In 2005, she stood as the only Senator to the side of Stephanie Tubbs Jones congressmen to lodge an appeal against the election results in Ohio. Likewise, she was the only senator who strongly criticizing the designated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice practiced in their hearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee.

In the 2010 election she sat over against Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett -Packard, with 51.2 % through.

Senator Boxer is married and has two adult children.