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Sen. Barbara Boxer likened GOP lawmakers to people who abuse their spouses on Monday when discussing the current government shutdown and the looming debt limit deadline. The California Democrat, who like most in her party, blames the lack of government funding and current impasse over raising the debt ceiling on Republicans who have insisted on passing measures aimed at dismantling the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. First she compared the current budget crisis to walking down the street on a nice day and then deciding to bash yourself in the head with a rock. Then she said: “It’s a...

Barbara Boxer: Obama’s Keep-Your-Plan Pledge ‘Absolutely a Fact’ Penny Starr November 15, 2013 (CNSNews.com) – Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that President Barack Obama's oft-repeated pledge that under Obamacare people would be allowed to keep their health care plans if they liked them was “absolutely a fact”--so long as the plans “met the standards” set by Obamacare, that is. CNSNews.com asked Boxer: “After President Obama signed the ACA he said that if you like your health care plan you will keep it. No one can take that away from you.” “I think everyone knows he said that,” Boxer...

California liberal has taken flak for some moves, but she wouldn't have it any other way RESOURCES SEN. BOXER'S BIOGRAPHY• Party: Democrat• Birth date: Nov. 11, 1940• Age: 63• Birthplace: Brooklyn, N.Y.• Education: Bachelor of arts, Brooklyn College, 1962.• Family: Husband, Stewart, a lawyer; adult children Doug and Nicole; one grandson, Zachary.• Experience: U.S. senator, 1993 to present; House member, 1983 to 1993; Marin County supervisor, 1976 to 1982; aide to then-U.S. Rep. John Burton, 1974-75; reporter for Pacific Sun newspaper, 1972-73; stockbroker, 1962-65. WASHINGTON - Sen. Barbara Boxer always has spoken up, but the California Democrat seems to have...