A field representative for Sen. Barbara Boxer held office hours last week at American Canyon City Hall, giving locals an opportunity to bring questions and concerns — face to face.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has urged top U.S. Dept. of Transportation officials to weigh in to help end what she termed a "standoff" with the House over the length of a surface transportation bill.

Scientists at Moores Cancer Center at the UCSD School of Medicine were in the spotlight last week as Sen. Barbara Boxer toured the facility, asking questions and congratulating the researchers. She also touted the $45 million in 152 research grants that have been awarded to UCSD through the Federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Boxer's remarks during a news conference following the tour focused ...

Carly Fiorina made her Washington debut today as an official contender for the Republican nomination to take on Sen. Barbara Boxer next spring. And she made it clear that she doesn’t think Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore could gather the wide swath...

Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) has been admonished by the Senate ethics committee for his public comments about his controversial appointment to the seat previously held by President Obama.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Roland Burris was reprimanded Friday by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics for his "inconsistent, incomplete and misleading" testimony before Springfield lawmakers about his appointment by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to the seat once held by President Obama.The Senate panel issued a "public letter of qualified admonition," a stinging rebuke of Burris' shifting explanations ...

Just as they have in her two previous reelection campaigns, once again this year Republicans and so-called experts list Barbara Boxer as one of the most vulnerable U.S. Senate Democrats running in next year's mid-term election. Maybe some of those estimates ought to be revised. A quick look at Boxer's past election performances could easily be interpreted to demonstrate that she's a lot stronger ...

With the ongoing congressional stalemate over the next highway bill beginning to take its toll on state road and transit proj...

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina recently launched an uphill campaign to unseat three-term Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, aggressively portraying herself as a business-savvy problem solver who would impose fiscal discipline on a profligate Congress.

PR firm hired on taxpayer dime to raise S.J.'s profile beyond the Bay Area astutely pitches to Bay Area newspapers.