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Barbara Sue Boxer (née Levy; born November 11, 1940) is an American politician, lobbyist, and former reporter who served in the United States Senate, representing California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party , she served as the U.S. representative for California's 6th congressional district from 1983 until 1993.
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Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer ran for re-election and defeated Republican former Secretary of State Bill Jones. Boxer's 6.96 million votes set the all-time record for the most votes cast for one candidate in one state in one election, although it was surpassed by Senator Dianne Feinstein's 7.75 million votes in 2012.
California elects United States senators to class 1 and class 3. The state has been represented by 48 people in the Senate since it was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. Its U.S. senators are Democrats Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. Dianne Feinstein was the state's longest serving senator, who served from 1992 until her death in 2023.
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Like Feinstein, Barbara Boxer was first elected to the Senate on November 3, 1992. [67] Because Feinstein was elected to complete an unexpired term, she was sworn in as a senator in November 1992, [68] while Boxer did not take office until January 1993; therefore, Feinstein became California's senior senator. She also became the first female ...
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After Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the set of “Rust” in October, California State Sen. Dave Cortese proposed banning firearms on film sets. But now Cortese has backed off from that ...