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Dianne Feinstein

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Dianne Emiel Feinstein was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. She was the first woman to hold this position, breaking significant barriers in a predominantly male political landscape. Throughout her tenure, Feinstein was known for her advocacy on issues such as gun control, environmental protection, and intelligence oversight, playing a pivotal role in shaping legislation in these areas.

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Sep 8, 2010

On September 9, at 6:11 p.m., a natural gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded.

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Jul 22, 2010

The National League for Democracy in March of this year indicated it could not participate in the elections due to the junta's repressive election law. It therefore declined to register as a political party and consequently under the new…

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Jul 19, 2010

We need to know where, from an intelligence perspective, contractors should serve a vital use, and where they do not.

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Jul 19, 2010

The use of contractors needs to continue to decrease substantially, and I intend to keep pushing on this point until contractors are not used for any inherently governmental purpose.

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Jul 15, 2010

No one should profit by speculating on the likelihood of a terrorist attack. Firms facing financial risk posed by threats to our national security may take out insurance, but they should not buy a derivative. A futures market is for…

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Jul 15, 2010

And does the Senator agree that this provision will also empower the Commission to prevent trading in contracts that may serve a limited commercial function but threaten the public good by allowing some to profit from events that threaten…

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Jul 15, 2010

I thank Chairman Lincoln and Chairman Dodd for maintaining section 745 in the conference report accompanying the Dodd- Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which gives authority to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission…

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Jul 14, 2010

It is a great pleasure for me to be here this morning to express my strong support for Dr. Janet Yellen.

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Jun 30, 2010

The woman's life and that the woman's health must be protected in any abortion regulation.

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Jun 30, 2010

I wrote the assault weapons legislation. I found the body of Harvey Milk.

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Jun 30, 2010

The executive's power in this area is really limited by the specifics of the actual situation

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Jun 30, 2010

California is a big state, with roiling cities. It is the gang capital of America.

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Jun 30, 2010

Like asthma in Los Angeles from ozone.

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Jun 30, 2010

The judge did there was find the terrorist surveillance program illegal and essentially say that the plaintiff was entitled to damages from the government.

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Jun 30, 2010

The President does not have an overriding authority here

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Jun 30, 2010

The Lopez decision struck all of us very hard.

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Jun 30, 2010

Nobody in Congress, nobody in the administrative apparatus has ever suggested that books pose any kind of corruption problem.

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Jun 30, 2010

I believe that you are eminently confirmable.

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Jun 30, 2010

I found it just shocking that the court would hold to a technicality when a woman couldn't possibly have known during the time that the tolling was taking place that she was disadvantaged.

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Jun 30, 2010

I believe our Nation was founded on the principle that the United States would never be a place for religious persecution.

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Jun 30, 2010

However, the fact is, many institutions still do not reflect the diversity of our society and the Federal courts, I'm sorry to say, are one of them.

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Jun 30, 2010

If you are confirmed, and I believe you're going to be, you will be only the fourth female justice in history.

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Jun 22, 2010

Thanks to Senator Feinstein and Senator Cornyn, two members of this committee, in a very, very strongly worded letter to the appropriate Canadian governmental official, they put one in place relatively quickly.

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Jun 15, 2010

Has your Department conducted this analysis and assessed the viability of expanding the joint operation of firefighting C-130 Js?

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Jun 15, 2010

I think there is the opportunity to consider where we go if this across-the-strait situation is stable.

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