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Have a Question for Senator Boxer?

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Senator Boxer is heading into an election next year, and so the campaign is gearing up. On Saturday, September 12, she’s inviting folks to hold house parties across the state.  Here at Calitics, we are planning to hold something of an online “house party.”

So, we’ll be streaming the Senator’s live webcast and are going to submit a question to the Senator, and we want to get your input on a question. I have some ideas on what I’d like to hear. Beyond health care, there are still questions about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the ACES climate change bill.

So, let us know in the comments what you would like to see the Senator take on, and we’ll decide on a question to ask.

3 thoughts on “Have a Question for Senator Boxer?”

  1. This is the same question I would have liked to ask Congresswoman Speier at her town hall, and which I’ve sent by email and am awaiting a response:

    Given the recent statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that show San Mateo and San Francisco counties have the largest job losses outside of Michigan, and given that the Cash for Clunkers stimulus program had probably provided enough stimulus that it is plausible that the local counties will move up to #1 in terms of job losses, and given that those who have recently lost their jobs are among those with the greatest financial difficulties, does it not make sense to extend the duration of the COBRA health insurance benefits beyond 18 months, at least until employment recovers (similar to extending unemployment insurance payments beyond 26 weeks) and will you also encourage Congress to extend the stimulus package’s COBRA premium reductions beyond the nine months, and consider making those reductions a permanent part of the COBRA program?

    Even if we get the best plausible health care reform from the current Congress, we’re still going to see people laid off and losing jobs at different times, and we’re still going to have employer based health care, so any form of assistance to those who have lost jobs would be a good one, in my opinion.

  2. What would it take for the Senate to pass good health care reform with a strong public option?  It means confronting the health insurance companies and their allies and taking power and money away from them.  So what would it take to get that through the Senate?  Is it impossible, short of a revolution?

    Same question goes for good climate change mitigation legislation, a Senate investigation of spying illegality/torture/war profiteering/propaganda, etc.  What’s it going to take?  Primary challenges to moderate Dems, the rise of a liberal TV outlet, a new Civil Rights Movement-scale popular uprising,…  What?

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