Boxer’s Gift to Inhofe
Sen. Barbara Boxer gave her good friend Sen. Jim Inhofe a gift on Thursday before commencing a hearing on global warming _ an issue that has divided the two lawmakers for years.
Boxer, a California Democrat, presented Inhofe, R-Tulsa, with a little stuffed polar bear (it looked like a Beanie Baby from the press seats).
The polar bear, of course, is considered to be in some danger of extinction this century because of global warming and the melting ice of its habitat.
Inhofe, perhaps the country’s best known global warming skeptic told Boxer, “In the last 50 years, the polar bear population has doubled.”
“I knew you’d use that as an opportunity to state your views on the polar bear,” Boxer replied.
Boxer, who replaced Inhofe as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee when Democrats won control of the Senate, said Inhofe had given her a gift earlier this year _ a global warming coffee mug that shows a map of the world.
When filled with hot coffee, “the coasts disappear,” Boxer said.
Inhofe described his gift as “useful.”
Chris Casteel
Washington Bureau
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