OAKLAND (CBS SF) -- U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, came to Oakland Monday to promote the nation's new health care law, saying it will help millions of Americans get the health care they need.

Sen. Barbara Boxer wants to add a new element to the Keystone XL oil pipeline debate: its effects on health. The California Democrat claims negative health effects from the proposed pipeline’s ...

Barbara Boxer was once among the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate, a favorite of progressives, who much preferred her over California’s other Democratic senator, the more staid and centrist ...

Sen. Barbara Boxer asks for a study of the health impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline State Department concluded last month that the pipeline would not add to carbon pollution Environmentalists oppose ...

The Democratic Party is taking the offensive in the health care debate. KPCC’s Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde says members say they’re ready for a lusty debate. Kitty Felde: Real or imagined, ...