US Senator Dianne Feinstein was a trailblazer in American politics and the longest-serving woman in the Senate, dead at 90
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California for 31 years, from 1992 until her death in 2023. Since 1993, she had been the state's senior senator. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms as mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988.
Among her most notable achievements are the enactment of the federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, a law that prohibited the sale, manufacture and import of military-style assault weapons that expired in 2014 and the six-year review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program that culminated in the 2014 release of the report’s executive summary and passage of legislation ensuring that certain post-9/11 interrogation methods are never used again.
Senator Feinstein authored the first major cybersecurity bill to be signed into law in years. She has been an aggressive opponent of sex trafficking and authored legislation to help prevent sex abuse of amateur athletes. And she is a vocal advocate for consumers, authoring bills to review chemicals in personal care products, ban chemicals in toys, crack down on rogue pharmacies and strengthen food safety.
Dianne Feinstein fought doggedly for the people of San Francisco, California, and all Americans. She was also a tireless champion for the film/TV/streaming industry and worked to protect the IP rights that ensure the creative community can succeed.
Feinstein, elected in 1992, was a vocal gun control advocate who often sought common ground with Republicans, sometimes frustrating her more liberal colleagues. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/dianne-feinstein-rcna18010
Who could Gavin Newsom pick to replace Dianne Feinstein? Oprah Winfrey might make sense.
Gov. Newsom has pledged to appoint a Black woman because the Senate now has none. The last was California's Kamala Harris, who gave up the seat to become Biden's vice president.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/09/29/newsom-pick…