Dianne Feinstein

My bottom-line belief is that the health care medical insurance industry should be nonprofit in the United States.

To me, this bill is one small step we can take to send a very loud signal to the medical insurance industry that times have got to change.

When Senator Dianne Feinstein...expressed misgivings about how expanding Medicaid would affect California's budget, Ms. DeParle gathered some charts and dropped by [the Senator's home] on a Saturday.

Coping with California's water crisis demands utilization of various best management practices including water transfers.

Your legislation will provide much needed relief in the form of a flexible and useful tool that will allow water to be transferred from willing parties to those in need within the CVP.

I thank you for introducing transfer legislation for the Central Valley Project (CVP) and we support your efforts.

Your legislation will bring important reform to existing transfer authorization thus increasing the efficacy of this essential water management tool.

This legislation will help provide good water management while providing flexibility for CVP customers.

We support your efforts and this legislation as a means of providing greater flexibility in the management of Central Valley Project.

We appreciate your leadership in advancing this legislation and addressing California water issues so important to our collective future.

Your legislation will provide immediate, much needed relief in the form of a flexible and useful tool.

We look forward to working with you and your staff in the coming months in this important legislative effort.

Thank you for introducing legislation authorizing and establishing a permanent long-term program to promote and manage water transfers.

The Mexican Government is very concerned about the massive importation of guns from the United States into Mexico. Big guns, too.

I spoke to Senator Leahy yesterday and indicated that we would like to work together, if possible, so we do not get into battles of sequential referrals and that kind of thing.

Earlier this year, my Senate colleagues and I wrote to you to request a more coordinated response to conflicts between the military mission and wind power.

It would be a shame if our copyright laws encouraged American artists to go overseas to record their works.

The degree to which you can sit down and solve the problems is very much appreciated.

Okay. Anybody else have a view on that?

Wouldn't this encourage some of them to record in other countries?

I believe we will have a bill.

And that is a big deal.

You are saying it is okay for us to take the content. You are saying it is okay for us to play them without recompense to the songwriter.

How so? I mean, why are we separate from Europe or any other nation?

I come from California. We are a big intellectual property State, and I have found over many decades that protecting copyright and patent interests is really important because it encourages the development of the industries that these…