{"id":26932,"date":"2023-09-29T13:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/09\/29\/democratic-sen-dianne-feinstein-of-california-dies-at-age-90\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:12:54","slug":"democratic-sen-dianne-feinstein-of-california-dies-at-age-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2023\/09\/29\/democratic-sen-dianne-feinstein-of-california-dies-at-age-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California dies at age 90"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/dianne-feinstein\">Dianne Feinstein<\/a> of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the \u201cYear of the Woman\u201d and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three people familiar with the situation confirmed her death to The Associated Press on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein, the oldest sitting U.S. senator, was a passionate advocate for liberal priorities important to her state &#8212; including environmental protection, reproductive rights and gun control &#8212; but was also known as a pragmatic lawmaker who reached out to Republicans and sought middle ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969 and became its first female president in 1978, the same year Mayor George Moscone was gunned down alongside Supervisor Harvey Milk at City Hall by Dan White, a disgruntled former supervisor. Feinstein found Milk\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Moscone\u2019s death, Feinstein became San Francisco\u2019s first female mayor. In the Senate, she was one of California\u2019s first two female senators, the first woman to head the Senate Intelligence Committee and the first woman to serve as the Judiciary committee\u2019s top Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Feinstein was not always embraced by the feminist movement, her experiences colored her outlook through her five decades in politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI recognize that women have had to fight for everything they have gotten, every right,\u201d she told The Associated Press in 2005, as the Judiciary Committee prepared to hold hearings on President George W. Bush\u2019s nomination of John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O\u2019Connor on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo I must tell you, I try to look out for women\u2019s rights. I also try to solve problems as I perceive them, with legislation, and reaching out where I can, and working across the aisle,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her tendency for bipartisanship helped her notch legislative wins throughout her career. But it also proved to be a liability in her later years in Congress, as her state became more liberal and as the Senate and the electorate became increasingly polarized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fierce debater who did not suffer fools, the California senator was long known for her verbal zingers and sharp comebacks when challenged on the issues about which she was most fervent. But she lost that edge in her later years in the Senate, as her health visibly declined and she often became confused when answering questions or speaking publicly. In February 2023, she said she would not run for a sixth term the next year. And within weeks of that announcement, she was absent for the Senate for more than two months as she recovered from a bout of shingles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dianne-feinstein-fall-hospital-31a1358e1c25839b45bb699d83c75d58\">concerns about her health<\/a>, Feinstein stepped down as the top Democrat on the Judiciary panel after the 2020 elections, just as her party was about to take the majority. In 2023, she said she would not serve as the Senate president pro tempore, or the most senior member of the majority party, even though she was in line to do so. The president pro tempore opens the Senate every day and holds other ceremonial duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Feinstein\u2019s most significant legislative accomplishments was early in her career, when the Senate approved her amendment to ban manufacturing and sales of certain types of assault weapons as part of a crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. Though the assault weapons ban expired 10 years later and was never renewed or replaced, it was a poignant win after her career had been significantly shaped by gun violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein remembered finding Milk\u2019s body, her finger slipping into a bullet hole as she felt for a pulse. It was a story she would retell often in the years ahead as she pushed for stricter gun control measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had little patience for Republicans and others who opposed her on that issue, though she was often challenged. In 1993, during debate on the assault weapons ban, Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, accused her of having an insufficient knowledge of guns and the gun control issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein spoke fiercely of the violence she\u2019d lived through in San Francisco and retorted: \u2018\u2019Senator, I know something about what firearms can do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two decades later, after 20 children and six educators were killed in a horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, first-term Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas similarly challenged Feinstein during debate on legislation that would have permanently banned the weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not a sixth grader,\u201d Feinstein snapped back at the much younger Cruz &#8212; a moment that later went viral. She added: \u201cIt\u2019s fine you want to lecture me on the Constitution. I appreciate it. Just know I\u2019ve been here a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein became mayor of San Francisco after the 1978 slayings of Moscone and Milk, leading the city during one of the most turbulent periods in its history. Even her critics credited Feinstein with a calming influence, and she won reelection on her own to two four-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With her success and growing recognition statewide came visibility on the national political stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1984, Feinstein was viewed as a vice presidential possibility for Walter Mondale but faced questions about the business dealings of her husband, Richard Blum. In 1990, she used news footage of her announcement of the assassinations of Moscone and Milk in a television ad that helped her win the Democratic nomination for California governor, making her the first female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the state\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although she narrowly lost the general election to Republican Pete Wilson, the stage was set for her election to the Senate two years later to fill the Senate seat Wilson had vacated to run for governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein campaigned jointly with Barbara Boxer, who was running for the state\u2019s other U.S. Senate seat, and both won, benefiting from positive news coverage and excitement over their historic race. California had never had a female U.S. senator, and female candidates and voters had been galvanized by the Supreme Court hearings in which the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Anita Hill about her sexual harassment allegations against nominee Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein was appointed to the Judiciary panel and eventually the Senate Intelligence Committee, becoming the chairperson in 2009. She was the first woman to lead the intelligence panel, a high-profile perch that gave her a central oversight role over U.S. intelligence controversies, setbacks and triumphs, from the killing of Osama bin Laden to leaks about National Security Agency surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Feinstein\u2019s leadership, the intelligence committee conducted a wide-ranging, five-year investigation into CIA interrogation techniques during President George W. Bush\u2019s administration, including waterboarding of terrorism suspects at secret overseas prisons. The resulting 6,300-page \u201ctorture report\u201d concluded among other things that waterboarding and other \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques\u201d did not provide key evidence in the hunt for bin Laden. A 525-page executive summary was released in late 2014, but the rest of the report has remained classified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate investigation was full of intrigue at the time, including documents that mysteriously disappeared and accusations traded between the Senate and the CIA that the other was stealing information. The drama was captured in a 2019 movie about the investigation called \u201cThe Report,\u201d and actor Annette Bening was nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Feinstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the years since, Feinstein has continued to push aggressively for eventual declassification of the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s my very strong belief that one day this report should be declassified,\u201d Feinstein said. \u201cThis must be a lesson learned: that torture doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein sometimes frustrated liberals by adopting moderate or hawkish positions that put her at odds with the left wing of the Democratic Party, as well as with the more liberal Boxer, who retired from the Senate in 2017. Feinstein defended the Obama administration\u2019s expansive collection of Americans\u2019 phone and email records as necessary for protecting the country, for example, even as other Democratic senators voiced protests. \u201cIt\u2019s called protecting America,\u201d Feinstein said then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That tension escalated during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, when many Democrats had little appetite for compromise. Feinstein become the top Democrat on the Judiciary panel in 2016 and led her party\u2019s messaging through three Supreme Court nominations &#8212; a role that angered liberal advocacy groups that wanted to see a more aggressive partisan in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein closed out confirmation hearings for Justice Amy Coney Barrett with an embrace of Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and a public thanks to him for a job well done. \u201cThis has been one of the best set of hearings that I\u2019ve participated in,\u201d Feinstein said at the end of the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liberal advocacy groups that had fiercely opposed Barrett\u2019s nomination to replace the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were furious and called for her to step down from the committee leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A month later, Feinstein announced she would remain on the committee but step down as the top Democrat. The senator, then 87 years old, did not say why. In a statement, she said she would \u201ccontinue to do my utmost to bring about positive change in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein was born on June 22, 1933. Her father, Leon Goldman, was a prominent surgeon and medical school professor in San Francisco, but her mother was an abusive woman with a violent temper that was often directed at Feinstein and her two younger sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955, with a bachelor\u2019s degree in history. She married young and was a divorced single mother of her daughter, Katherine, in 1960, at a time when such a status was still unusual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1961, Feinstein was appointed by then-Gov. Pat Brown to the women\u2019s parole board, on which she served before running for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Typical of the era, much of the early coverage of her entrance into public life focused on her appearance, and she was invariably described as stunning, tall, slender and raven-haired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feinstein\u2019s second husband, Bert Feinstein, was 19 years older than she, but she described the marriage as \u201ca 10\u2033 and kept his name even after his death from cancer in 1978. In 1980, she married investment banker Richard Blum, and thanks to his wealth, she was one of the richest members of the Senate. He died in February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to her daughter, Feinstein has a granddaughter, Eileen, and three stepchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feinstein, the oldest sitting U.S. senator, was a passionate advocate for liberal priorities including environmental protection and gun control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":74335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":38,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[38,31,9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2830,344],"class_list":["post-26932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress","category-home","category-federal-oversight"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"ASQ7PY3XUJED7BXALO234S6Z6A","arc_canonical_url":"\/federal-oversight\/congress\/2023\/09\/29\/democratic-sen-dianne-feinstein-of-california-dies-at-age-90\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Democratic Sen. 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