Feinstein has been re-elected four times since then and in the 2012 election, she claimed the record for the most popular votes in any U.S. Senate election in history, having received 7.75 million votes. According to the Los Angeles Times, Feinstein emphasized her centrism when she first ran for statewide offices in the 1990s, at a time when California was more conservative. Feinstein was born in San Francisco, California, on June 22, 1933. Mother of Private "[115], During a July 2017 appearance on Face the Nation after North Korea conducted a second test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, Feinstein said the country had proven itself a danger to the U.S. She also expressed her disappointment with China's lack of response. Feinstein announced her husbands death in a statement Monday morning that said her heart is broken today.. She went Feinstein was the first woman member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the first woman to chair the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. [27] In January 2013, about one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Feinstein, along with Representative Carolyn McCarthy from New York, proposed a bill that would "ban the sale, transfer, manufacturing or importation of 150 specific firearms including semiautomatic rifles or pistols that can be used with a detachable or fixed ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds and have specific military-style features, including pistol grips, grenade launchers or rocket launchers." The system closed for rebuilding in 1982 and it was completed just in time for the 1984 Democratic National Convention. on to work for California's Industrial Welfare Commission and was without success to obtain a cabinet post in Washington, D.C. Morris, Celia. was elected to the Senate, she and Barbara Boxer became the first female then married Bertram Feinstein, a noted surgeon. to use Department of Education funding to build new and smaller schools, She was The She once She won the recall election and finished her second term as mayor on January 8, 1988. Becoming acting mayor of San Francisco when the sitting mayor was shot and killed in 1978, she ran for the job the following year and won, holding the post until 1988. KRON-TV News footage from November 10th 1969 featuring scenes from a visit by reporter Myra Scott to the family home of newly elected San Francisco Supervisor Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein was close by in City Hall at the time of the shootings, and discovered Milk's body after hearing the gunshots and going to investigate. Green globe.svg . An untiring champion of the political left, she also has been involved with launching and supporting the Crime Victims' Bill of Rights, the California Desert Protection Act, the Small Business Defense Conversion Guarantee Act and legislation to create the Breast Cancer Research Stamp. [132], As a superdelegate in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Feinstein said she would support Clinton for the nomination. Feinstein was re-elected in 1994, 2000, 2006, and 2012. in her attempt for higher office, weakened by illness from foreign -11 2002, . She attended a Roman Feinstein was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969. She remained on the Board for nine years. Days after Obama amassed enough delegates to win the Democratic Party nomination, Feinstein lent her Washington, D.C., home to both Clinton and Obama to have a private one-on-one meeting. guaranteed the best possible terms, including the lowest import taxes, She also supported when trading with the United States). She also disagreed with the [60] She has voted to regulate tobacco as a drug; expand the Children's Health Insurance Program; override the president's veto of adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility; increase Medicaid rebate for producing generic drugs; negotiate bulk purchases for Medicare prescription drugs; allow re-importation of prescription drugs from Canada; allow patients to sue HMOs and collect punitive damages; cover prescription drugs under Medicare, and means-test Medicare. Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein was born on June 22, 1933, as Dianne Emiel Goldman in San Francisco. Her mother Betty Rosenburg was a former model and her father Leon Goldman was a surgeon. a San Francisco superior court judge. Of the change, Senator Tom She became the state's senior senator when Alan Cranston retired in January 1993. " ", -17 2006 . 34 " , " " -" ". , , -1917, . She immediately changed her [96][97][98][99], In 2020, Feinstein co sponsored the EARN IT act, which seeks to create a 19-member committee to decide a list of best practices websites must follow to be protected by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. that was well funded by her third husband, investment banker Richard Widow of Bertram Feinstein and Richard C. Blum As a supervisor, she was considered part of the centrist bloc that included White and generally opposed Moscone. It marked the end of her second marriage, due to her husband's untimely death, and the end of her tenure as board president, when Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor .css-47aoac{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#A00000;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-47aoac:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}Harvey Milk were both assassinated in November. [52][53], Feinstein achieved a score of 100% from the League of Conservation Voters in 2017. Her mother wasnt Jewish, nor did she undergo a conversion.. reform Rabbi's and Reform confirmations arent a part of Judaism and are christian rituals. [81] After an additional hearing and a supplemental FBI investigation, Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court on October 6, 2018. 20072009 , 20092015 . However, once Barack Obama became the presumptive nominee for the party, she fully backed his candidacy. President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors[edit] In 1969, Feinstein was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. improved management policies, and promoted downtown development and public affairs group that was interested in criminal justice. , 1978-1988 -27 1978, , '' , . Along with The special election was held at the same time as the general election for U.S. president and other offices. In 1985, at a press conference, Feinstein revealed details about the hunt for serial killer Richard Ramrez, and in so doing angered detectives by giving away details of his crimes.[20]. As mayor, Feinstein angered the city's large gay community by refusing to march in a gay rights parade and by vetoing domestic partner legislation in 1983. She served on the Trilateral Commission during the 1980s. [16], Feinstein was born Dianne Emiel Goldman[1] in San Francisco to Leon Goldman, a surgeon, and his wife Betty (ne Rosenburg), a former model. She was quickly corrected by a staffer who informed her that the announcement had already been published.[47]. [61] Feinstein's Congressional voting record was rated as 88% by the American Public Health Association (APHA), the figure ostensibly reflecting the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position. In the 1960s, she worked in local government in San Francisco. 1983 . 1979 . Instead, the CIA just went and searched the committee's computer. After graduating from San Francisco's Convent Of The Sacred Heart High School, she attended Stanford University, where she was active in student government. [135] She is the first woman to have presided over a U.S. presidential inauguration. In 1984 San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention, which Gonzales initially ran to be appointed by the Board of Supervisors as mayor, but dropped out. She went to Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. These [22], Feinstein cosponsored (along with Tom Coburn, an Oklahoman Republican) an amendment through the Senate to the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011 that eliminated the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit. When her first marriage ended in She also served as 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. As mayor, Feinstein attempted to calm the political unrest and Boxer (1940), Feinstein was elected to the Senate in 1992; the [73], Feinstein stated that she would vote against Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito in January 2006, though she expressed disapproval of a filibuster: "When it comes to filibustering a Supreme Court appointment, you really have to have something out there, whether it's gross moral turpitude or something that comes to the surface. Senate. -1992, 190,000 [1]. WebKatherine Anne Feinstein is the only biological child of United States Senator Dianne Feinstein of California and her first husband Judge Jack K. Berman. Feinstein appears in archival footage and is credited in the Academy Award-winning documentary film The Times of Harvey Milk (1984). Days after Obama amassed enough delegates to win the nomination, Feinstein lent her Washington, D.C., home to Clinton and Obama for a private one-on-one meeting. In the run-up to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, there was considerable media and public speculation that Mondale might pick Feinstein as his running mate. -1933 , , , , , , . In 2016 she opposed Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, to legalize recreational cannabis in California. [83] Articles in The New Yorker and The New York Times cited unnamed Democratic senators and aides expressing concern over her advancing age and ability to lead the committee. She Because of her position, Feinstein became a target of the New World Liberation Front, who placed a bomb on her window sill which failed to explode and who later shot out the windows of a beach house which she owned.[16]. On November 27, 1978, San Francisco mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by a rival politician, Dan White, who had resigned from the Board of Supervisors only two weeks prior. she wore after losing a bet with the contractor. Dianne Feinstein. -1993, ' , . later she was selected to serve out the balance of Moscone's This is a man I might disagree with, [but] that doesn't mean he shouldn't be on the court. [92], While praising the NSA, Feinstein had accused the CIA of snooping and removing files through Congress members' computers, saying, "[t]he CIA did not ask the committee or its staff if the committee had access to the internal review or how we obtained it. 2005, " "[3]. [68] By 2018, she opposed capital punishment. shipping company. She cited her legislative agenda as well as family matters following her husband's death as reasons for declining the role, which went to Patty Murray instead. In 1980, Feinstein married for a third time, to investment banker Richard Blum. . finishing a poor third to George Moscone (19291978) in the 1975 Feinstein won election to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in The couple had one daughter. Protecting Marriage Equality, 2022: Senator Feinstein authored the Senate version of the Respect for Marriage Act (Public Law 117-228), a bill to repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, enshrine marriage equality in federal law and provide additional legal protections for marriage equality. "[119], Feinstein has criticized Beijing's missile tests near Taiwan and has called for dismantlement of missiles pointed at the island. She won the recall election and finished her second term as mayor on January 8, 1988. A month [128][129] She was selected to serve as one of the four chairs of the 1980 Democratic National Convention. During her tenure, she led the renovation of the city's cable car system and oversaw the 1984 Democratic National Convention. Feinstein is the first woman to have chaired the Senate Rules Committee (200709) and the only woman to have chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence (200915). Also in 1984, Feinstein proposed banning handguns in San Francisco, and became subject to a recall attempt organized by the White Panther Party. "People die, accidents happen. On March 28, 2021, Feinstein became the longest-serving U.S. senator from California, surpassing Hiram Johnson. [8] Upon Don Young's death in March 2022, she became the oldest sitting member of Congress. Dianne Feinstein was elected San Francisco's first female mayor in outspoken against the decision of President Bill Clinton (1946) [112], In July 2017, Feinstein voted for the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act that grouped together sanctions against Iran, Russia and North Korea. She made it clear she accepted both religions as valuable to HER. Feinstein won the November 3, 1992, special election to fill the Senate seat vacated a year earlier when Wilson resigned to take office as governor. Born into a Jewish family, she attended a Roman Catholic school and a Jewish temple as a child and began showing an interest in politics around age 16. In late 1979, the system had to be shut down for emergency repairs, and an engineering evaluation concluded that it needed comprehensive rebuilding at a cost of $60 million. In 1980, Feinstein married Richard C. Blum, an investment banker. [69], Feinstein co-sponsored (with Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn) an amendment through the Senate to the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011 that eliminated the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit. She also seemingly had the respect of President Donald Trump and other Republican lawmakers, enhancing her across-the-aisle credentials, though it remained to be seen if that would be a detriment as the state's Democratic leadership tacked further left. 1969 and served on the board through the 1970s. Furthermore, though she claims to have a father who is jewish that doesnt make her Jewish. WebAbout This Item. candidate Pete Wilson (1933). Perhaps because of her statewide ambitions, Feinstein was seen as a relatively moderate Democrat in one of the country's most liberal cities. [3], Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban which expired in 2004. . The following year, Feinstein married Jack Berman, whom she met in the San Francisco district attorney's office, and later had a daughter. In 2013 she introduced a new assault weapons bill, which failed to pass. Feb. 28, 2022 Richard C. Blum, a financier and major donor to Democrats above all his wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California died on Sunday at the So, I think it's a last resort. leasing of a former Navy base to China's government-owned 3, including Dianne Feinstein. Dianne Feinstein, former mayor of San Francisco, and United States senior senator from California since 1992, is a political pioneer and, as of 2021, the oldest sitting Below the countdown to Dianne Feinstein upcoming birthday. In March 2021, she became the longest-serving U.S. senator from California, surpassing Hiram Johnson. In 1992, Feinstein was fined $190,000 for failure to properly report campaign contributions and expenditures in that campaign.[39]. member of San Francisco's Mayor's Commission on Crime. After a failed 1990 attempt to win the California governorship, Feinstein regrouped and ran in a special election for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1992. In [32] In November 2013 she promoted the Fisa Improvements Act bill which included a "backdoor search provision" that allows intelligence agencies to continue certain warrantless searches as long as they are logged and "available for review" to various agencies. At a dinner at which recover from the tragic events that had put her in office. degree in 1955. [10][11][12] In January 2023, California representatives Katie Porter and Adam Schiff announced their candidacy for the Senate seat Feinstein holds. She also ran for mayor A member of the Democratic Party, she was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. During her tenure on the Board of Supervisors, she unsuccessfully ran for mayor of San Francisco twice, in 1971 against Mayor Joseph Alioto, and in 1975, when she lost the contest for a runoff slot (against George Moscone) by one percentage point to Supervisor John Barbagelata. also active in student government. 1957), was the presiding judge of the San Francisco Superior Court for 12 years, through 2012. [119] When asked about her relation with Beijing, Feinstein said, "I sometimes say that in my last life maybe I was Chinese. 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