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Diane Feinstein

Time to Ban BPA from Food and Beverage Containers

Sen. Dianne Feinstein | Posted 12.18.2009 | Green

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

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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Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

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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Vision Testing Time for Congress

Caroline Myss | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

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

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

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Sam Stein

Gavin Newsom Warns of Dire Results Without Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Economic Crisis, California, Budget Deal, Holmes Tuttle, Ronald Reagan, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger's Knife-Wielding, Schwarzenegger Wields Knife, California Republicans, United Republicans of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Budget Crisis, Republican Party, Nancy Reagan, Budget Standoff, George W. Bush, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

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 08.13.2009 | Politics

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

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 08.01.2009 | Politics

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

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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Sam Stein

Exclusive: MoveOn Targets DiFi On Healthcare In New Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feinstein Health Care, Feinstein Ad, Health Care Moveon, Moveon Ad, MoveOn.Org, Health Care Reform, Diane Feinstein, Politics News

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 07.11.2009 | Politics

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 06.12.2009 | Politics

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 06.08.2009 | Politics

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
Jane Hamsher

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

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Specter: "Now I Can Say It: What a Bunch of F*cking A**holes!"

Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Arlen Specter, U.S. Senate, Andy Borowitz, Mitch McConnell, Diane Feinstein, Eric Cantor, Specter Press Conference, Andy Borowitz Specter, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

"This is something I've wanted to say for years: is there a bigger dick on this planet than Mitch McConnell?" he said. "I know he thinks he's doing his job, but please, what a turd."

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Pelosi Harman

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Jane Harman, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Political Cartoons, Cartoon, Comedy News
Jeff Danziger

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Sam Stein

EFCA Backers Step Up Efforts, Begin Calling Out Democrats, Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Webb Efca, Thomas Frank, Obama Andy Stern, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Law Obama, Labor Efca, Efca, Jim Webb, Obama, Democrats, Blanche Lincoln, Diane Feinstein, Stern Obama, Politics News

Whether out of despair, frustration, or the political calculus that more sheer aggression is needed, labor officials and progressives are taking a far...

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Feinstein Would Be Instant Front-Runner For California Governor: Poll

McClatchy | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the instant front-runner if she jumps into the Democratic primary field for governor....

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Feinstein Reveals Intel That May Embarrass Pakistan

Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feinstein, Diane Feinstein, Pakistan, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Dianne Feinstein, Dennis Blair, Asif Ali Zardari, Dianne Feinstein Censure, Air Force Drones, Drones, Politics News

A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an air base in that country, a revelatio...

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Jerry Brown To Run For California Governor

Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Attorney General Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Antonio Villaraigosa, Diane Feinstein, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein, Gavin Newsome, Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, Jerry Brown Governor, California Governor's Race, California Governor, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Politics News

It was 1974 when Jerry Brown ran for governor as a dashing 36-year-old reformer, the embodiment of change in Watergate's aftermath. "I was the new sp...

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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High School Dismisses Class to Watch Inauguration

Natasha Chen | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Community Service, High School, Joe Biden, Students, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Yo-Yo Ma, Obama's Inauguration, California, Barack Obama Inauguration, Jackie Speier, Classes, Aretha Franklin, Diane Feinstein, Inauguration, Schools, Teachers, San Francisco, Politics News
Natasha Chen

At San Mateo High School, even teachers who had intended on continuing with their lesson plans during the inauguration gave in to their pleading students who wanted to watch this historic moment.

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Senate Opposition To Burris Weakening

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 02.07.2009 | Chicago

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WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats beat a hasty retreat Wednesday from their rejection of Roland Burris as President-elect Barack Obama's successor, ...

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Sam Stein

Obama Puts Out The Panetta Fire

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Damage Control, Barack Obama, Bob Graham @Huffpolitics, Obama Intelligence, Obama Intra Party Feud, Obama Stephen Kappes, Diane Feinstein, Obama Democrats, Obama CIA, Panetta Cia, Obama Panetta, Leon Panetta, Politics News

Barack Obama was forced into his first real rift with congressional Democrats on Monday when two influential Senators complained publicly about not ha...

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Obama's Savvy Choice Of Panetta Shakes Up Stagnant Senate

Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller, Diane Feinstein, Jane Harmon, Leon Panetta, President Obama, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

If there is a better place for someone to start shaking up Washington, I can't think of a better place for Obama to begin than with those currently in high caterwaul about Panetta's appointment.

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Leaked Obama Transcript Explains Rick Warren Decision

John Aravosis | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homophobia, Prop 8, Diane Feinstein, Satire, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Rick Warren, Rick Warren Invocation, Politics News
John Aravosis

The following conversation may, or may not, have occurred between President-elect Barack Obama and the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, Sen. Diane Feinstein.

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Dianne Feinstein To Clinton: Show Me Your Plan

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton 2008, Diane Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, Feinstein Clinton, Politics News

More rough news for Sen. Hillary Clinton. The Hill reports that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), one of Clinton's "most prominent Senate supporters, said...

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Why the "Elitism" Smear Against Obama Won't Stick

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Diane Feinstein, Laura Ingraham, David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, William Kristol, Pennsylvania Campaign, Barack Obama, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Leave it to Hillary to take it to the limit. She's running attack ads trying to capitalize on this non-issue because at this point in her campaign the poor woman is completely bereft of affirming ideas.

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