Diane Feinstein

Conservative Legislator Fights To Demolish Historic Yosemite Dam

Aaron Sankin | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Oshaughnessy Dam Dan Lungren, O'Shaughnessy Dam, Diane Feinstein, Dan Lungran, Hetch Hechy, Tuolumne River, San Francisco Pubic Utilities Commission, Yosemite National Park, Restore Hetch Hechy, Dan Lungran Yosemite, Don Pedro Dam, Dan Lungran Hetch Hechy, Hetch Hechy Reservoir, San Francisco News

Environmentalists sometimes come in unlikely shapes. Take Congressman Dan Lungren, for example. A Republican representing Sacramento's eastern subu...

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Protecting the Land and Water Conservation Fund: A Win for the Environment, a Win for the Economy

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Rep Mike Honda, Barbara Boxer, Muir Woods, Diane Feinstein, Lwcf, Environment, Conservation, Anti-Green Movement, Rep Lucille Roybal-Allard, California, Green News

Protecting the great outdoors is good for our economy, helps create jobs, and ensures that the scenic landscapes that millions of people enjoy in California each year will be here for generations to come.

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Scandal-Ridden Firm Ordered To Stop Work

AP | By MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Durkee & Associates, Diane Feinstein, Kinde Durkee, Durkee & Associates Campaign Finance, Campaign Contributions, California Missing Campaign Contributions, Elections 2012, Durkee & Associates Campaigns, Durkee & Associates Campaign Finance Scandal, Durkee & Associates Scandal, Politics News

LOS ANGELES -- California regulators Tuesday ordered a company tied to hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing political funds to stop providing a...

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Diane Feinstein On West LA Subway Extension

Patch | Anne Louise Bannon | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Sen. Diane Feinstein, Diane Feinstein, LA News, LA Subway Extension, LA Subway, Los Angeles News

Sen. Diane Feinstein expressed doubt about the availability of federal funding for the city's public transportation revamp in an interview with Patch ...

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To Run Or Not To Run?

Aaron Sankin | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Leland Yee, Ed Lee Sf Mayor, Mayor Ed Lee, San Francisco Mayoral Race, Diane Feinsteain Ed Lee, Ed Lee, Leland Yee Mayor, San Francisco Around Town, Run Ed Run, David Chiu, Diane Feinstein, Ed Lee Reelection, Dennis Herrera Mayor, San Francisco Mayor, Dennis Herrera, Ed Lee San Francisco Mayor, Draft Ed Lee, Sf Mayor, San Francisco News

Should Ed Lee run for reelection? Right now, that's the single most loaded question in all of San Francisco politics. When Lee was selected by ...

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Power to the Congress

Craig Barnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Diane Feinstein, Plutocracy, President Obama, Presidential Power, Harry Reid, Congress, Democrats, Politics News

The president has met with Republicans and put together a tax deal that was, he said, the best he could get from them. Despite the outraged cries of liberal democrats, this may actually be a very good thing.

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Lung Cancer Kills, So Does Indifference

Rob Densen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health News, Lung Cancer, Diane Feinstein, Cancer Prevention, Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act, Sam Brownback, Women, Women and Lung Cancer, Advocacy, Cancer, Impact News

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Somebody ought to tell Congress. Maybe you.

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Ignorance and Intimidation = Delay Not Defeat in March Toward Pot Legalization

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Feinstein, Marijuana, Washington, Proposition 19, Corrections Corporation of America, Oregon, Colorado, Pot, Prohibition, California, California Prop 19, California Election Results, Attorney General Eric Holder, Elections 2010, Election 2010, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News

For several months California's Proposition 19 appeared headed for victory. That it lost yesterday is a tribute not only to youth-voter impassivity but to the power of ignorance and coercion.

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Boxer Calls NRSC's Ads 'Outrageous And Nasty'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sen. Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, California Senate Race, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, National-Republican-Senatorial-Committee, Nrsc Ads, Video, Politics News

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer at a press conference Monday called ads targeted against her "outrageous and nasty," adding that this week the National ...

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Dear Sen. Feinstein & Sen. Hatch, Let's Stop Sending Our Kids to Prison!

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth Promise Act, Gangs, Bobby Scott, Orin Hatch, Diane Feinstein, Russell Simmons, Youth Violence, Politics News

While the average incarceration rate in the United States is 7 times the international average, for blacks the average rate is over 22 times the international average. The Youth PROMISE Act aims to address that.

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So to Speak: California Queen'in

Don Ringe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Diane Feinstein, Arnold, Washington, Campaign, Jerry Brown, Ringe, Arnold Schwarzenegger, US Senator Diane Feinstein, Governor, California, Los Angeles News

Jerry Brown appeared to be time traveling again when he went on KGO-radio this week and launched an attack on... Gavin Newsom? Yo Jerry! The dude dropped out. Give it a rest, man.

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More Democrats Support Bernanke Confirmation

AP | JIM KUHNHENN and JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Max Baucus, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Diane Feinstein, The Fed, Los Angeles News

WASHINGTON — Bolstered by a White House lobbying effort that included the president, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's chances at a second...

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Time to Ban BPA from Food and Beverage Containers

Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ban Poisonous Additives Act, Bpas, Diane Feinstein, Dianne Feinstein, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Bpa Bisphenol A, Green News

No responsible parent would expose their infant to cigarette smoke or car exhaust. But every day in America, millions of infants are exposed to dangerous chemicals hiding in plain view.

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Plan To Transfer Guantanamo Detainees To Yemen Faces Criticism

AP | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, Jane Harman, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, John Brennan, Obama Administration, US Senate, Joe Lieberman, Diane Feinstein, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrori...

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Feinstein: If We Don't Deliver On Health Care 'We've Got A Problem'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Reform Problem, Feinstein Health Care, Feinstein We Have a Problem, Feintstein Health Care Legislation, Diane Feinstein, Politics News

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) warned her fellow Democrats on Sunday that if they failed to pass health care reform in the weeks ahead, the opportun...

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Wild Horse Roundup To Begin In Nevada Amid Protest

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Calico Mountains, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Diane Feinstein, Blm, Wild Horses, Denver News

LAS VEGAS — A two-month capture of about 2,500 wild horses from public and private lands in northern Nevada began Monday amid protests that the ...

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Vision Testing Time for Congress

Caroline Myss | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Congress, Nancy Pelosi, American Congress, George W. Bush, Crisis, Predicaments, Reeleciton, Democrats, Diane Feinstein, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Healthy Living News

We are a nation confounded by predicaments, and predicaments do not have solutions. They require transformations.

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Gavin Newsom Warns of Dire Results Without Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Feinstein Public Plan, Newsom Obama, Obama Newsom, Gavin Newsom, Obama White House Health Care, Obama Health Care, Diane Feinstein, Congress Recess, Politics News

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom warned on Friday that local governments throughout the country would find themselves bankrupt if the current health c...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's Knife Play

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

What's been playing out in California could be the stubborn last gasp of the "Republican Revolution." What began in California might have to end in California.

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What To Do With the Enablers?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, Cia, Diane Feinstein, USA Patriot Act, George W. Bush, Enabler, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Bernard Madoff, Greenpeace, Dick Cheney, Politics News

We must also work to ensure that the name on the door to the Oval Office isn't the only thing that has changed, and that Mr. Cheney's enablers have, once and for all, left town.

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What 60 Democratic Senate Votes Really Means: Welcome to the Age of Ben Nelson

Dan Sweeney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Susan Collins, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Diane Feinstein, Olympia Snowe, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Al Franken, Filibuster, Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Politics News

Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe lost a huge amount of power yesterday. The battle to get to 60 votes was focused primarily on them, but now the focus will be on moderate Democrats rather than moderate Republicans.

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Exclusive: MoveOn Targets DiFi On Healthcare In New Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Intensifying efforts to keep recalcitrant Democrats in line on health care, the progressive activist organization MoveOn.org is launching a new televi...

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Senate Probe Could Target Cheney For Interrogation Briefings

Mother Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Senator Carl Levin, Dick-Cheney-Interrogation, Cia, Diane Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, War on Terror, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Torture, Politics News

Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelli...

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Feinstein Defends Pelosi; Says CIA Briefings Are Intentionally Vague

Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Waterboarding, Cia Memos, Torture, Politics News

Senate Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Tuesday became the latest high-profile Democrat to defend Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) fr...

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Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Diane Feinstein, Ben Nelson George McGovern, Mark Pryor, Rick Berman, Tom Harkin, Penny Pritzger, Afl-Cio, Michael Bennet, Jim Webb, Astroturf, Politics News

With 900,000 union members in the state of Pennsylvania, the Arlen Specter firewall appears to be crumbling.

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