BARBARA BOXER: THE WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2006

Senator Boxer is not only the Senate's leading defender of a woman's right to choose, but she has consistently demonstrated the highest principles of government service achieving one of the highest aspirations of women throughout history.

Residing in northern California, Barbara Boxer became a United States Senator in January 1993 after 10 years of service in the House of Representatives. Elected to a third term in 2004, she received more than 6.9 million votes, the highest total for any Senate candidate in American history.

Senator Boxer is a forceful advocate for families, children, consumers, the environment and her state as evidenced by her landmark legislation that established the first federal funding for after-school programs to authoring the Freedom of Choice Act of 2004, (which helped lead to the passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act), to reintroducing the 2006 freedom of choice act which will stop extremists in Congress from weakening a woman's Constitutional right to choose.

The current Democratic Chief Deputy Whip, Senator Boxer serves on several committees including the Democratic Policy Committee on Oversight and Investigations, the Senate Committees on Commerce, the Foreign Relations committee, and the Environment and Public Works committee. For forty four years, she has been married to Stewart Boxer, with whom she shares two children, a daughter-in-law, and a 10-year-old grandson.

WIN is honored to pay tribute to such a remarkable woman.

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