Boxer-Fiorina Debate: Economy and stimulus

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The first question to Barbara Boxer in today’s debate involved the need for a second stimulus.

‘We were facing a bleeding of 700,000 jobs per month,’ she said. ‘I voted for that. It is creating jobs ... and saving others.’

Boxer said she called for an objective analysis that revealed the stimulus saved 8 million additional jobs.

Boxer, asked about the $1.3 trillion deficit, said it was ‘inherited from George Bush. ... We were handed that $1.3 trillion deficit.’

Boxer called for pay-as-you-go budgeting and ‘you’ve got to end the two wars’ in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fiorina is in the KPCC studios in Pasadena. Boxer is in Washington, D.C.

--Anthony York in Sacramento