Dianne Feinstein, stalwart of the Senate, dies at 90

"After the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 first-graders and six adults were gunned down in 2012, Mrs. Feinstein spearheaded an unsuccessful effort to renew the law."

"She disappointed liberals with her law-and-order approach toward governance and her long-standing support for the death penalty, even as she frustrated conservatives with her support for gun control and same-sex-marriage rights."

""From pushing for common sense gun safety reforms to standing up for LGBT equality, she never let up in working to do right by her constituents and the American people."

"In 1960, California Gov. Pat Brown (D), who had read a paper about criminal justice that Mrs. Feinstein wrote through a public-affairs internship, named her to the California Women's Board of Terms and Parole, her first job in public service."

"When President Barack Obama sought to give the Defense Department - and not the CIA - authority for drone strikes on potential terrorists, Mrs. Feinstein used a classified amendment to a spending bill to forestall any such move, according to news accounts."

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"When President Barack Obama sought to give the Defense Department - and not the CIA - authority for drone strikes on potential terrorists, Mrs. Feinstein used a classified amendment to a spending bill to forestall any such move, according to news accounts."

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""Of all the legislation that crossed Mrs. Feinstein's Senate desk, the bill with which she was most associated was the assault weapons ban that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994."

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""Of all the legislation that crossed Mrs. Feinstein's Senate desk, the bill with which she was most associated was the assault weapons ban that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994."

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"Her elevation to the office of mayor came on the heels of upheaval, including the mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana - where many followers of cult leader Jim Jones were from San Francisco - and attacks by the New World Liberation Front terrorist group, which placed a bomb outside the bedroom window of Mrs. Feinstein's daughter."

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"Her elevation to the office of mayor came on the heels of upheaval, including the mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana - where many followers of cult leader Jim Jones were from San Francisco - and attacks by the New World Liberation Front terrorist group, which placed a bomb outside the bedroom window of Mrs. Feinstein's daughter."

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""Mrs. Feinstein encountered perhaps the most intense criticism of her career while serving as ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee in 2018, during the firestorm surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh."

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"He and Mrs. Feinstein had earlier faced off in a high-stakes confrontation when Brean accused committee investigators of improperly obtaining materials from a CIA computer network."

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"The uphill effort showcased Mrs. Feinstein at her most determined."

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"After the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Co., where 20 first-graders and six adults were gued down in 2012, Mrs. Feinstein spearheaded an unsuccessful effort to renew the law."

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"While some women celebrated Mrs. Feinstein as a trailblazer, others resented what they considered her insufficient attention to women's issues."

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"In February, Mrs. Feinstein said she would not seek reelection the following year."

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"Mrs. Feinstein has died, according to a report from the Associated Press, which cited three people "familiar with the situation.""

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""Mrs. Feinstein spent much of her career fielding criticism from opposite ends of the political spectrum."

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"Mrs. Feinstein was hospitalized in February with shingles, an illness later reported to have been complicated by encephalitis."

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"Mrs. Feinstein, who denied Brean's charges, gave a dramatic speech on the Senate floor in which she accused the CIA of improperly searching computers used by her staff members and seeking to intimidate them with calls for a Justice Department review of their conduct."

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"Obama ended the program shortly after succeeding George W. Bush in the White House."

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"In the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans regained control of the Senate, and Mrs. Feinstein lost her committee chairmanship."

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"Deeply disturbed by testimony to the committee about secret CIA prisons known as "black sites," Mrs. Feinstein called for the investigation shortly after taking the chairmanship."

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"Mrs. Feinstein remained unriled, as the Kavanaugh confirmation eclipsed perhaps even the Hill hearings in its drama."

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"That summer Mrs. Feinstein had been forwarded a letter from Christine Blasey Ford, a California psychology professor, with the allegation that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they both were in high school."

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"Mrs. Feinstein rushed to Milk and felt for a pulse."

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"When a more senior senator, Larry Craig (R-Idaho), questioned her experience on gun issues, she reminded him that she had become mayor of San Francisco as a result of a double assassination."

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"Her inability during that time to vote on Biden administration judicial nominees, along with gathering evidence of her cognitive decline, led even some admirers to urge the senator to resign to avoid tarnishing what was by all accounts a remarkable legacy as a stateswoman."

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"At the end of the hearings, to their ire, Mrs. Feinstein embraced and praised Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.).nn"

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"Conservatives charged that Mrs. Feinstein had made an eleventh-hour attempt to "ambush" Kavanaugh."

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"She pulled her daughters' hair, repeatedly attempted suicide and once tried to drown one of the younger girls in the bathtub, Mrs. Feinstein said."

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""Every woman that watched that changed," Mrs. Feinstein told the New York Times in 2018."

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"Her toughest reelection battle came in 1994, when she faced Republican Michael Huffington, an oil scion and then-husband of author and commentator Arianna Huffington, who spent nearly $30 million of his own money on the race."

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"Even as her physical and cognitive difficulties became unavoidably apparent - after her months-long absence from the Senate when she was ill with shingles, she appeared to tell a reporter at the Capitol that she had never been gone - Mrs. Feinstein resisted any suggestions that she should step down before the end of her term."

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"The California Democratic Party declined to endorse Mrs. Feinstein in 2018, instead supporting Kevin de Leu00f3n, a more liberal former state senator."

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"For a time, Mrs. Feinstein owned a handgun.nn"

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"It was the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, and Dianne Feinstein, a future powerhouse of the U.S. Senate, had decided she was done with politics."

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"Mrs. Feinstein aounced in late 2020 that she would step down as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee."

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"Mrs. Feinstein, who argued that she was obligated to respect Ford's request for confidentiality, did not refer the matter to the FBI until the existence of the letter was leaked to the news media, shortly before Kavanaugh's confirmation vote was to take place."

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""nn- - -nnCentrist from the startnnMrs. Feinstein's centrism dated to the earliest years of her political career."

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""The lesson Diae took from this craziness was that she had been right - that all this polarization and bitterness that was extant in the town had now led to these murders," her biographer, Jerry Roberts, once told the New Yorker magazine, referring to the assassinations of Moscone and Milk."

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""nnMrs. Feinstein won her Senate seat in what became known as the Year of the Woman, an election that sent 24 new women to the House of Representatives and brought the total number of female senators to six.nn"

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"By the city's succession laws, Mrs. Feinstein was elevated to mayor, an office she held for nine years before losing a bid for California governor in 1990."

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"Mrs. Feinstein won the mayor's office in her own right in 1979 and, after surviving a recall, was reelected in 1983."

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""Dianne Feinstein was a titan of the Senate, and her legacy as a trailblazer for women everywhere and a defender of democracy will go down in history," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., the first female U.S. senator from the state, said in a statement."

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""Dianne Feinstein was a titan of the Senate, and her legacy as a trailblazer for women everywhere and a defender of democracy will go down in history," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., the first female U.S. senator from the state, said in a statement."

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""Mrs. Feinstein sometimes spoke of the difficulties of being a woman in power, including the tendency of observers to remark on her appearance."

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""Then serving as board president, Mrs. Feinstein had the duty of aouncing the deaths."

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"In 2013, when The Washington Post and London's Guardian newspaper exposed massive secret surveillance by the National Security Agency, Mrs. Feinstein defended the program and other efforts like it."

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"Moving somewhat to the left, Mrs. Feinstein reversed her support for the death penalty."

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"Throughout her years in politics, Mrs. Feinstein remained acutely aware that her course had been set by tragedy."

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"In the Senate, Mrs. Feinstein served on the Appropriations Committee and chaired the Rules Committee."

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"Wilson appointed Republican John Seymour to his Senate seat."

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"Wilson appointed Republican John Seymour to his Senate seat."

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""I'm back in Washington, voting and attending committee meetings while I recover," Mrs. Feinstein said in a statement after her bout with shingles."

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""I've lived a feminist life," Mrs. Feinstein, who supported abortion rights, once told an interviewer."

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"Mrs. Feinstein held him back, 47 to 45 percent."

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"In 1960, California Gov. Pat Brown (D), who had read a paper about criminal justice that Mrs. Feinstein wrote through a public-affairs internship, named her to the California Women's Board of Terms and Parole, her first job in public service."

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"Some liberals perceived Mrs. Feinstein as insufficiently tough during the confirmation proceedings of Amy Coney Barrett, whose nomination by President Donald Trump after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave conservatives a 6-3 edge on the high court."

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"Some liberals perceived Mrs. Feinstein as insufficiently tough during the confirmation proceedings of Amy Coney Barrett, whose nomination by President Donald Trump after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave conservatives a 6-3 edge on the high court."

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"Some liberals perceived Mrs. Feinstein as insufficiently tough during the confirmation proceedings of Amy Coney Barrett, whose nomination by President Donald Trump after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave conservatives a 6-3 edge on the high court."

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""nn"Senator Feinstein was a trailblazer who believed in the promise of our democracy, striving to work together with others regardless of differences in order to make a positive impact," Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said in a statement."

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""nn"Senator Feinstein was a trailblazer who believed in the promise of our democracy, striving to work together with others regardless of differences in order to make a positive impact," Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., said in a statement."

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"The Republican candidate, U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson, won 49 percent to 46 percent."

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""Senator Feinstein showed us what you are supposed to do to serve your constituents, your state, and your country as a United States Senator."

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""nn- - -nnSupreme Court controversiesnnOn the Judiciary Committee, which she joined during her first term in the Senate, Mrs. Feinstein became known as an independent-minded vote.nn"

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"In 1992, Mrs. Feinstein defeated future California governor Gray Davis in the Democratic primary before easily overcoming Seymour in the general election."

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"In 1992, Mrs. Feinstein defeated future California governor Gray Davis in the Democratic primary before easily overcoming Seymour in the general election."

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"U.S. Reps. Katie Porter, Adam B. Schiff and Barbara Lee, all Democrats, made the opening bids in what was expected to be a fierce battle for Mrs. Feinstein's seat."

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"U.S. Reps. Katie Porter, Adam B. Schiff and Barbara Lee, all Democrats, made the opening bids in what was expected to be a fierce battle for Mrs. Feinstein's seat."

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"U.S. Reps. Katie Porter, Adam B. Schiff and Barbara Lee, all Democrats, made the opening bids in what was expected to be a fierce battle for Mrs. Feinstein's seat."

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"U.S. Reps. Katie Porter, Adam B. Schiff and Barbara Lee, all Democrats, made the opening bids in what was expected to be a fierce battle for Mrs. Feinstein's seat."

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