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Dianne Feinstein

(b. San Francisco, 22 June 1933) US; Mayor of San Francisco 1978 – 88, US Senator 1992 – Feinstein was educated at Stanford University and is a criminologist by training. She was appointed to the California Parole Board 1960 – 6 before becoming a member of the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors. From 1970 – 1 she was president of the Board of Supervisors, a post she occupied again from 1974 to 1975 and in 1978. As a moderate she backed stronger law and order measures. She was able to combine this stance with more liberal views on lifestyle issues, though she has annoyed both gay and feminist groups on occasion. In 1978, she became mayor following the murder of Harvey Moscone and served for his expired term plus two full terms of her own, a period in which she displayed political skill and a high degree of administrative competence.

In 1990 Feinstein entered the gubernatorial race against Pete Wilson but was narrowly defeated. In 1992 she successfully ran for the unexpired portion of Wilson's Senate term and held the seat in 1994 against the challenge of the wealthy Michael Huffington in one of the United States' most expensive Senate campaigns.

Feinstein's political experience in state and local politics as well as in the Senate makes her one of the most visible female politicians in United States and a possible Democratic contender for the governorship of California or the presidency.

 
 
Biography: Dianne Feinstein

Politician and public official, Dianne Feinstein (born 1933) was elected San Francisco's first female mayor in 1979 and became one of the nation's most visible and publicly recognized leaders. In 1992 she was elected to the Senate, becoming along with Barbara Boxer the first female senator from California.

Born in San Francisco on June 22, 1933, to a Jewish physician father (Leon Goldman) and a Catholic Russian-American mother (Betty Rosenburg Goldman), Dianne laid claim to having been brought up in both religious traditions. She attended a Roman Catholic school and a Jewish temple during her youth, which cultivated in her a deep respect for religious diversity. After having graduated from San Francisco's Sacred Heart High School she enrolled at Stanford where she studied history and political science and was active in student government. She was awarded a B.S. degree in 1955.

Combining marriage and family with a career, Feinstein was employed by a public affairs foundation interested in criminal justice. She worked as an administrative assistant for California's Industrial Welfare Commission and was appointed in 1962 to a four-year term on the state's Women's Board of Paroles. When her first marriage broke up, Feinstein withdrew temporarily from public life but emerged again on a county advisory committee on adult detention and on San Francisco's Mayor's Commission on Crime. During that period she also became the mother of one daughter, divorced her first husband, and organized her household tasks with a professional housekeeper in order to be free to concentrate on her public career. A second husband died in 1978, and she later married Richard Blum, an investment banker.

Early Public Career

Introduced to politics by a kindly uncle who began taking her to San Francisco Board of Supervisors (city council) meetings when she was 16, Feinstein recalled later that this was a catalyst that would turn her toward a career in public service. She won election to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1969 and served on the board through the 1970s. Politically ambitious, Feinstein ran twice for the mayoralty, being defeated by Joseph Alioto in 1971 and finishing a poor third in George Moscone's 1975 election. In 1975 she was an early and firm supporter of presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, and when he won the White House, she lobbied actively for a cabinet post in Washington. Turned down in her quest for higher office, discouraged by the deaths of her father and her second husband, and afflicted by illness while abroad, Feinstein told writer Jerome Brondfield: "I decided I would not again be a candidate - for anything."

Concluding that her series of political and personal reversals had exhausted her future political prospects, Supervisor Feinstein scheduled a press conference to announce the same on what would become one of the most fateful days of her career, November 27, 1978. A half an hour before the anticipated announcement, a disgruntled former supervisor, Dan White, fatally shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a homosexual political activist. This grisly assault propelled board president Feinstein into the position of acting mayor, and a month later the board selected her to serve out the balance of Moscone's term. As mayor, Feinstein sought to calm the political turbulence and violence, balance the demands of conflicting pressure groups (she appointed another gay to replace Milk), and sought what she called an "emotional reconstruction" of the city's agitated polity.

Mayor in Her Own Right

Feinstein was elected to a full four-year term as mayor beginning in 1979. During her early tenure she followed an even-handed course which incorporated some off-beat cultural politics as well as conventional politics to appeal to the varied constituencies in the community. She also focused her attention on the problem of crime, took a keen interest in police staffing and policies, and succeeded in reducing the crime rates. The biggest challenge that she first faced was fiscal - the problem of balancing the budget exacerbated by cutbacks in state and federal spending for cities. A proponent of "management by objectives" and utilizing a high-powered group of business and labor leaders in the Mayor's Fiscal Advisory Committee, Feinstein brought the city budget under control, inaugurated enlightened management and personnel policies, and supported downtown development and economic expansion.

Her occasional indulgence in whimsy delighted and amused the citizenry. She once appeared at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a reclamation project in a black wool, knee-length, old fashioned bathing suit, prompted by a wager with the contractor. At a testimonial dinner at which she was guest of honor she applied the Heimlich maneuver to save a guest from choking on a piece of meat. Yet the city's colorful and dynamic mayor occasionally stumbled, as she apparently did in pushing through an ordinance banning handguns, which led to an attempt at recall. Arrayed against her was an anti-ban group that attracted other dissidents, including the homosexual interest group. This part of the community was angered by Feinstein's veto of a measure extending medical and welfare benefits to gays and live-in companions of unmarried city employees. Although the recall movement gathered sufficient signatures, the threat quickly dissipated when Mayor Feinstein easily survived the challenge by polling an 83 percent favorable vote in April and handily winning her second and last full term in the November 1983 election (mayors were limited to two terms by the city charter).

Although beginning her career as a liberal, Mayor Feinstein was considered a moderate on matters of lifestyle tolerance and a conservative on fiscal issues. In 1984 her city hosted the Democratic National Convention, which many of the mayor's backers hoped might lead to the nomination for the vice presidency, but it did not.

In 1990 Feinstein ran for governor of California against Republican candidate Pete Wilson. Although she ran a tough campaign, and one that was well-financed by her investment banker husband, she lost to Wilson by a narrow margin. Feinstein immediately re-focused and in early 1991 announced her intention to run for Pete Wilson's former Senate seat in the 1992 election. Along with fellow Democrat Barbara Boxer, Feinstein was elected to the Senate in 1992; the two became the first women Senators ever elected in California. Their election was part of a new women's revolution, since prior to January 1993 only 15 women had ever served in the Senate, and certainly there had never been more than two serving at any given time. After her reelection in 1996, Feinstein shared the floor with 8 fellow women Senators, representing a spectrum of political viewpoints. Of the change, Senator Tom Harkin said, "Just by being on the Senate floor, they've changed the male mindset."

As Senator, Feinstein took a firm stand on a range of issues: she was outspoken against President Clinton's certification of Mexico as being an ally in the drug war, she argued that China should be granted Most Favored Nation status, and argued against the leasing of a former Navy base to China's state-owned shipping company.

Further Reading

For her political career, see Jerome Brondfield, "She Gives Her Heart to San Francisco," in Readers Digest (July 1984); M. Holli and P. Jones, Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors (1981); and biographical materials from the Office of the Mayor. For the assassination and its aftermath, see New York Times and Chicago Tribune, November 28, 1978, and United States News and World Report, June 6, 1979. For the recall election, see Chicago Tribune, April 27, 1983.

For further reading on her race against Pete Wilson for Governor, see Celia Morris's book Storming the Statehouse: Running for Governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein (1992). For a discussion of her role as Senator, see Year of the Woman, by Linda Witt, Karen Paget, and Glenna Matthews.

 
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"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."

 
Wikipedia: Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
Incumbent
Assumed office 
November 10, 1992
Serving with Barbara Boxer
Preceded by John F. Seymour
Succeeded by Incumbent (2013)
In office
December 4, 1978 – January 8, 1988
Preceded by George Moscone
Succeeded by Art Agnos
Born June 22 1933 (1933--) (age 74)
San Francisco, California
Political party Democratic
Spouse Judge Jack Berman (div.)
Bertram Feinstein (deceased)
Richard C. Blum
Alma mater Stanford University
Religion Jewish

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is the senior U.S. Senator from California, having held office as a senator since 1992. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Senator Feinstein holds a number of "firsts"; she was the first woman President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco's first and only female mayor, the first woman to serve in the Senate from California, one of two first female Jewish senators, the first woman to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the first woman to chair the Rules and Administration committee of that body.

Early life and career

Feinstein was born Dianne Emiel Goldman[1] in San Francisco to Betty Rosenburg, a former model, and Leon Goldman, a nationally renowned surgeon who was the first Jewish person made tenured physician at the UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco.[2] Feinstein's paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, while her maternal grandparents, who were of the Russian Orthodox faith, left St. Petersburg, Russia after the 1917 Russian Revolution;[3] Feinstein's maternal grandfather was an imperial army officer[4] who was a convert from Judaism to Christianity. Feinstein attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School and was given a Catholic religious education, but also attended Hebrew school and was confirmed in the Jewish faith at the age of thirteen, having said that she has "always considered [herself] Jewish".[3]

Feinstein has two sisters, Lynne Kennedy and Yvonne Banks. She received her B.A. degree in history in 1955 from Stanford University. In 1956, she married Jack Berman, a colleague in the San Francisco District Attorney's office. They were divorced three years later. Their daughter, Katherine Feinstein Mariano (b. 1957), is a superior court judge in San Francisco. Berman later became a judge; he died in 2002. In 1962, shortly after starting her career in politics, she married neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein, who died of colon cancer in 1978. In 1980, she married Richard C. Blum, an investment banker.

Feinstein has received scrutiny for husband Richard Blum's extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country. Critics have argued that Feinstein's support of policies that may benefit her husband may raise the appearance of a conflict of interest.[5] Suburban newspaper Metroactive has written in 2007 that Feinstein's husband holds large investments in companies that won large government contracts — without competitive bidding. In April 2007, Feinstein's office denied there was a conflict of interest and stated that her departure from the subcommittee had nothing to do with the reports in the Metro weeklies.

As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and Fedspending. Org, three corporations in which Blum's financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In 2003, Feinstein was ranked the fifth wealthiest senator, with an estimated net worth of $26 million.[6] By 2005 her net worth had increased to between $43 million and $99 million.[7] Her 347-page financial disclosure statement[8] — characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "nearly the size of a phonebook" — draws clear lines between her assets and those of her husband, with many of her assets in blind trusts.[9]

Early political career

Prior to elected service, she was appointed by then-California Governor Pat Brown to serve as a member of the California Women Parole Board. In 1969, Feinstein won a position on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She remained on the Board for nine years, becoming its first female president.

During her tenure on the Board of Supervisors, she unsuccessfully ran for mayor of San Francisco twice, in 1971 against mayor Joseph Alioto, and in 1975, when she lost the contest for a runoff slot (against George Moscone) by one percentage point, to supervisor John Barbagelata.

Mayor of San Francisco

As mayor of San Francisco, between 1978-1988
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As mayor of San Francisco, between 1978-1988

On November 27, 1978, San Francisco mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by a rival politician, Dan White, who had resigned from the Board of Supervisors only two weeks prior. Feinstein announced the assassinations to the stunned public, stating: "As president of the board of supervisors, it's my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed."[10] As president of the Board of Supervisors, Feinstein automatically ascended to the mayoral position on December 4. She served out the remainder of the term and was elected in her own right in 1979 and re-elected in 1983.

One of the first challenges to face Feinstein as mayor was the state of the San Francisco cable car system. In late 1979 the system had to be shut down for emergency repairs, and an engineering evaluation concluded that it needed comprehensive rebuilding at a cost of $60 million. Feinstein took charge of the effort, and helped win federal funding for the bulk of the rebuilding job. The system closed for rebuilding in 1982 and reopened in 1984 in time for the Democratic National Convention that was held in the city that year.[11]

In the run up to the convention, there was considerable media and public speculation that Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale might pick Feinstein as his running mate. However, he chose Geraldine Ferraro instead. Also in 1984, Feinstein proposed banning handguns in San Francisco, and became subject to a recall attempt organized by the White Panther Party. She won the recall election and finished her second term as mayor on January 8, 1988.

In 1985, at a press conference, she revealed details about the hunt for Richard Ramírez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker, and in so doing angered detectives by giving away details of his crimes, including displaying actual evidence at the press conference. These revelations subverted their investigation and Ramirez left the San Francisco area to commit another murder before he was finally captured in the Los Angeles area.[12]

In 1987, City and State magazine named Feinstein the nation's "Most Effective Mayor". Feinstein served on the Trilateral Commission during the 1980s while mayor of San Francisco.

Feinstein appears in archival footage and is credited in the Academy Award-winning documentary film The Times of Harvey Milk (1984).

Governor's race

In 1990, Feinstein made an unsuccessful bid for Governor of California, losing to Republican Senator Pete Wilson, who vacated his seat in the Senate to assume the governorship. In 1992, she was fined $190,000 for failure to properly report campaign contributions and expenditures associated with that campaign.[13]

U.S. Senate career

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On November 3, 1992, Feinstein won a special election to fill the Senate seat that became vacant in 1990 when Pete Wilson was elected governor (Wilson had then appointed John F. Seymour to that seat). The election was held at the same time as the general election for U.S. President and other offices. Senator Barbara Boxer was elected at the same time for the seat to be vacated by Alan Cranston. Because Feinstein was elected to an unexpired term, she became a senator as soon as the election was certified, and that is why she became California's senior senator even though she was elected at the same time as Barbara Boxer.

Feinstein was re-elected in 1994, 2000, and 2006. She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Senate Committee Assignments

Feinstein is a member of the following U.S. Senate Committees:

Political positions and votes

Iraq

Feinstein supported the Iraq war resolution in the vote of October 11, 2002; she has claimed that she was misled by President Bush on the reasons for going to war. However, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter has stated that Feinstein in summer 2002 acknowledged to him that she knew the Bush administration had not provided any convincing intelligence to back up its claims about the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.[14]

In February 2007, Feinstein warned Republicans not to block consideration of a measure opposing President Bush's troop increase in Iraq, saying it would be a "terrible mistake" to prevent debate on the top issue in America.[15]

In May 2007, Feinstein voted for an Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill which continued to fund the Iraq occupation without firm timetables for withdrawal. The Senator said "I am deeply disappointed that this bill fails to hold the President accountable for his Administration’s flawed Iraq War policy. The American people have made their voices clear that there must be an exit strategy for Iraq. Yet this President continues to stubbornly adhere to more of the same;" however, she still voted for the bill.[16]

Wiretapping

In August 2007, Feinstein joined Republicans in the Senate in voting to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by narrowing the scope of its protections to sharply alter the legal limits on the government's ability to monitor phone calls and email messages of American citizens.[17] Feinstein voted to give the attorney general and the director of national intelligence the power to approve international surveillance of the communications of Americans entirely within the executive branch, rather than through the special intelligence court established by FISA. Many privacy advocates have decried this law and Senator Feinstein's vote in favour of it. [18]

USA PATRIOT Act

Senator Feinstein was the original Democratic cosponsor of a bill to extend the USA PATRIOT Act. In a December 2005 statement, Senator Feinstein stated, "I believe the Patriot Act is vital to the protection of the American people."[19]

Immigration

Feinstein is a supporter and cosponsor of the H-1B Visa program.

Environment

Senator Feinstein and her predecessor Senator Alan Cranston worked for over 10 years to pass the California Desert Protection Act. The bill was signed in to law by President Clinton in 1994. The bill protected  acres ( km²) of California's desert lands as wilderness and national parks.[1] The Act doubled the size of the National Wilderness Preservation System in California, and was the largest wilderness bill in California's history.

Californian Senators Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were the champions of the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act which was signed in to law by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006. The bill protected  acres ( km²) of federal land as wilderness and  miles ( km) of stream as a wild and scenic river, including such popular areas as the King Range and Cache Creek.[2] Senators Feinstein and Boxer worked with Representative Mike Thompson, the sponsor of the bill in the House, in the 5-year effort to pass the legislation.

Death penalty

Feinstein is a supporter of capital punishment.

Free speech

She was the main Democratic sponsor of the failed 2006 constitutional Flag Desecration Amendment.[20]

She also voted for the McCain-Feingold legislation.

After heavily supporting President Bush's Immigration Reform Bill, she mentioned that she was "looking into revising" the Fairness Doctrine, specifically targeting Talk Radio. [21]

Gun politics

She is opposed by gun rights organizations, who say that her proposals on gun control are unconstitutional.

In 1993, Feinstein, along with then-Representative Charles Schumer (D-NY), led the fight to ban many semi-automatic firearms and restrict the sale of firearm magazines deemed assault weapons. The ban was passed as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. In 2004, when the ban was set to expire, Feinstein sponsored a 10-year extension of the ban as an amendment to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act; while the amendment was successfully added, the act itself failed. The act was then revived in 2005, and, despite Feinstein's best efforts, was passed without an extension of the assault weapons ban.

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), said on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes, February 5, 1995, "If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them . . . Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."

In July 2006, Feinstein voted against the Vitter Amendment to prohibit Federal funds being used for the confiscation of lawfully owned firearms during a disaster.

[22]

Intellectual property

Feinstein has supported Hollywood and the content industry when it has come into conflict with technology and fair use on intellectual property issues. In 2006 she cosponsored the "PERFORM Act" or the "Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2006" to the Senate, which would require satellite, cable and internet broadcasters to pay fair market value for the performance of digital music. Additionally, the bill would require the use of readily available and cost-effective technological means to prevent music theft. Over the Air Broadcasting would not be affected.[23] Feinstein's consistent backing of the content industry and attacks on fair use have earned her poor marks with the EFF and IPac.

Corruption scandals and accusations

Between 2001 and 2006[24], Diane Feinstein served as the ranking member of the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, also known as the "MILCON" subcommittee. Feinstein also served as chair of the MILCON subcommittee when the Democrats controlled the Senate in 2001 and 2002.

While on the MILCON subcommitte, Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions of dollars to firms owned by her husband, Richard C. Blum.[5] This included millions of dollars in contracts awarded to Blum's Perini Corporation to provide goods and services in Iraq and Afghanistan.[25]

As the ranking Democratic, Feinstein would have again become chair of the MILCON subcommittee when the Democratically controlled Senate of the 110th Congress was sworn in on January 4, 2007. However, Feinstein resigned from the subcommittee prior to the new congressional term, forfeiting chairmanship of the MILCON subcommittee to Tim Johnson.[26] Metro Newspapers reported that Feinstein's resignation was attributable to a series of articles, partially funded by the progressive Nation Institute, exposing the potential conflict of interest posed by Feinstein's voting to award contracts to her husband's firms.[27] [28]

In April 2007, Feinstein's office denied any ethical conflict,[29] however, the director of the Project on Government Oversight who has examined evidence assembled by investigative reporter Peter Byrne stated that “the paper trail showing Senator Feinstein’s conflict of interest is irrefutable.”[30][31]

Additional scandal arose when it was revealed that members of Feinstein's Senate staff attempted to purge references to these alleged conflicts of interest from the Wikipedia articles on herself and her husband.[32][33]

Additionally, in 1990, Senator Feinstein failed to disclose that her husband had guaranteed her 1990 campaign loans, which resulted in a US$190,000 fine.[34] This information was also initially deleted from Wikipedia by a Feinstein staffer in 2006.[35][33]

2006 re-election

Main article: California United States Senate election, 2006

Feinstein was elected for a third full term in 2006. She defeated Republican Richard Mountjoy, Libertarian Michael Metti, Green Todd Chretien, and Peace and Freedom Marsha Feinland in the general election.

Ideological ratings

Electoral history

2006 California United States Senatorial Election

Dianne Feinstein (D) (inc.) 59.2%
Dick Mountjoy (R) 37.4%
Don Grundmann (American Independent) 1.8%
Todd Chretien (Green) 1.7%
Michael Metti (Lib.) 1.6%
Marsha Feinland (Peace and Freedom) 1.3%

2000 California United States Senatorial Election

Dianne Feinstein (D) (inc.) 56%
Tom Campbell (R) 38%
Medea Benjamin (Green) 3%
Gail Lightfoot (Lib.) 2%

1994 California United States Senatorial Election

Dianne Feinstein (D) (inc.) 47%
Michael Huffington (R) 45%

1992 California United States Senatorial Election

Dianne Feinstein (D) 54.3%
John F. Seymour (R) (inc.) 38%
Gerald Horne (Peace and Freedom) 2.8%

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Fa - Fe. Real Names of Famous Folk. Retrieved on October 14, 2005.
  2. ^ Seymour "Sy" Brody. Dianne Feinstein: United States Senator From California. Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America. Retrieved on October 14, 2005.
  3. ^ a b Slater, Robert; Elinor Slater (2004). Great Jewish Women. Middle Village, New York: Jonathan David Publishers, 78. ISBN0-8246-0370-2 1. 
  4. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/feinstein.htm
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  6. ^ Loughlin, Sean, Robert Yoon. "Millionaires populate U.S. Senate", CNN, 2003-06-13. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  7. ^ Personal Financial Disclosures Summary: 2005. opensecrets.org. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  8. ^ "Senate Public Financial Disclosure Report for Senator Diane Feinstein", US Senate/Washington Post, 2006-06-09. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  9. ^ Coile, Zachary. "Bay lawmakers among wealthiest", San Francisco Chronicle, 2004-06-26. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  10. ^ The Times of Harvey Milk. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
  11. ^ Museums in Motion - 1984 - Rejuvenation. Market Street Railway. Retrieved on 2007-10-19.
  12. ^ The Night Stalker: Serial Killer Richard Ramirez. Court TV. Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
  13. ^ Enforcement Cases: F. California Fair Political Practices Commission. Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
  14. ^ Ritter, Scott. "What Happened to Iraq's WMD", San Francisco Chronicle, 2005-12-04. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  15. ^ "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", transcript, CNN, 2007-02-04. Retrieved on 2007-09-15. 
  16. ^ "Senate Approves FY’07 Supplemental Appropriations Bill", Senator Feinstein's Official Site, 2007-05-25. Retrieved on 2007-05-25. 
  17. ^ S.1927 vote tally. U.S. Senate (2007-08-03). Retrieved on 2007-08-06.
  18. ^ "Bush Signs Law to Widen Reach for Wiretapping", New York Times, 2007-08-06. Retrieved on 2007-08-06. 
  19. ^ Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2005-12-19). Statement on the President’s Comments Regarding Patriot Act and Domestic Spying. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  20. ^ Sen. Dianne Feinstein (2006-06-27). Statement in Support of Flag Protection Amendment. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  21. ^ FOX News (2007-06-27). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe22Vn6wJEM accessdate = 2007-06-27 Dianne Feinstein on FOX News to Support the Fairness Doctrine]. Press release.
  22. ^ U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 2nd Session. US Senate (2006-07-13). Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
  23. ^ Testimony of Mr. Edgar Bronfman. US Senate Judiciary Committee (2006-04-26). Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
  24. ^ Press Release. ""Senator Feinstein Applauds Defense Department for Postponing Plans to Build Permanent Guantanamo Courthouse Until Formal Congressional Approval is Secured"", www.feinstein.senate.gov, 2006-12-08. Retrieved on 2007-06-20. 
  25. ^ Perini Corporation. Center for Public Integrity. Retrieved on 2007-06-20.
  26. ^ Byrne, Peter. "Feinstein Resigns", Metro Newspapers, 2007-03-14. Retrieved on 2007-06-20. 
  27. ^ Byrne, Peter. "Feinstein Resigns", Metro Newspapers, 2007-03-14. Retrieved on 2007-06-20. 
  28. ^ Lucas, Fred (2007-04-02). Feinstein Leaves Senate Defense Panel Amid Controversy. CNSNews.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
  29. ^ Lucas, Fred. "Feinstein's Office Denies Conflict of Interest Charges", CNSNews, 2007-04-04. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  30. ^ Peter Byrne. The Feinstein Files. Peter Byrne : Investigative Reporting. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.
  31. ^ Keene, David. "Feinstein’s Cardinal shenanigans", The Hill, 2007-04-30. Retrieved on 2007-05-02. 
  32. ^ "Wikinews investigates Wikipedia usage by U.S. Senate staff members", Wikinews, 2006-02-07. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  33. ^ a b Lochhead, Carolyn. "Former Feinstein staffer edited Wikipedia entries", San Francisco Chronicle, 2006-02-09. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  34. ^ Noguchi, Yuki. "Wikipedia's Help From the Hill", Washington Post, 2006-02-09, pp. A21. Retrieved on 2007-05-07. 
  35. ^ "Political Skeletons, Cut and Pasted", Op-Ed, New York Times, 2006-02-11. 
  36. ^ American Civil Liberties Union Congressional Scorecard. Project Vote Smart. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
  37. ^ National Environmental Scorecard: Dianne Feinstein. League of Conservation Voters. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.
  38. ^ 2005 U.S. Senate Votes. American Conservative Union. Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
  39. ^ National Rifle Association Ratings. Project Vote Smart. Retrieved on 2007-05-12.
  40. ^ Voting History: Dianne Feinstein. Peace Action West. Retrieved on 2007-07-03.

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