KRON4 Article RatingLooking back on U.S. Sen. Feinstein's liberal legacy
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| "Feinstein supported and helped pass the Affordable Care Act in the Senate and voted for its passage in 2009.5." | Positive | 42% Conservative |
| "These visits are important to ensure that conditions in immigration facilities uphold the humanitarian standards U.S. law requires and that immigration cases are heard quickly and efficiently, her office wrote." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "The senator's staff regularly visited the California/Mexico border to inspect conditions at Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Feinstein supported and helped pass the Affordable Care Act in the Senate and voted for its passage in 2009.5." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Here is a look back on five issues Feinstein was passionate about during her legacy as a leader in America:1." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "ImmigrationSenator Feinstein was a strong supporter of The Dream Act to provide a path to legal status for undocumented persons who were younger than 18 years when they first arrived in the United States." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "In 2019, Feinstein successfully led an effort committing all major automakers to sign an agreement with California to voluntarily commit to stronger fuel economy standards than the federal level." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Former President Barack Obama wrote, Feinstein will be rightly remembered as a trailblazer -- the first woman to serve as mayor of San Francisco and the first woman elected to the Senate from California." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Former President Barack Obama wrote, Feinstein will be rightly remembered as a trailblazer -- the first woman to serve as mayor of San Francisco and the first woman elected to the Senate from California." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Feinstein found Milk's body." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "The San Francisco native passed away Thursday night at her home in Washington, D.C., Feinstein's chief of staff, James Sauls, confirmed." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "In 2016, Feinstein secured passage of bipartisan legislation to respond to California's five-year drought and modernize the state's water system.2." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Feinstein was the author of the West Coast Ocean Protection Act, which would permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Feinstein said, This must be a lesson learned: that torture doesn't work.4." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "When Feinstein aounced earlier this year that she would not seek re-election, environmental issues remained as one of her top priorities." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Feinstein in 2023 said she was focused on passing commonsense legislation to thwart easy access to guns, particularly assault weapons." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Under Feinstein's leadership, the intelligence committee conducted a wide-ranging investigation into CIA interrogation techniques during President George W. Bush's administration, including waterboarding of terrorism suspects at secret overseas prisons." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "U.S. Sen. Diae Feinstein of California fiercely fought for liberal causes for more than three decades in the Senate." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "California Governor Gavin Newsom said, There is simply nobody who possessed the strength, gravitas, and fierceness of Diae Feinstein." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "California Governor Gavin Newsom said, There is simply nobody who possessed the strength, gravitas, and fierceness of Diae Feinstein." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "She threw her support behind Newsom's 2020 executive order requiring all new vehicles sold in California to be zero-emission by 2035." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The Senate approved her amendment to ban manufacturing and sales of certain types of assault weapons as part of a crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "In February of 2022, Feinstein cosigned a letter urging President Biden to reverse inhumane immigration policies, such as Title 42, originally introduced under the Trump administration." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In February of 2022, Feinstein cosigned a letter urging President Biden to reverse inhumane immigration policies, such as Title 42, originally introduced under the Trump administration." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In February of 2022, Feinstein cosigned a letter urging President Biden to reverse inhumane immigration policies, such as Title 42, originally introduced under the Trump administration." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
71% : Feinstein supported and helped pass the Affordable Care Act in the Senate and voted for its passage in 2009.5.55% : "These visits are important to ensure that conditions in immigration facilities uphold the humanitarian standards U.S. law requires and that immigration cases are heard quickly and efficiently," her office wrote.
53% : The senator's staff regularly visited the California/Mexico border to inspect conditions at Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.