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January 9, 2015

Sen. Barbara Boxer to Retire in 2016 
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The vote on Keystone XL comes as one of the Senate's leading voices on
environmental protection, California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, has
announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. Boxer, who was first
elected in 1992, has supported reproductive rights and gun control and
was one of the "Immortal 23" — the 23 senators who voted against
authorizing the U.S. invasion of Iraq.