what senate committees does US senator Dianne Feinstein (D), CA, serve on?

Answer 1

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Here is a link to a the website Congresspedia about her congressional history:

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein is the Senior Senator from California. She has held the position since 1992 and is a Democrat.

Background
Feinstein was born June 22, 1933 in San Francisco. She received her B.A. in history in 1955 from Stanford University. She is San Francisco's first (and to date, only) woman mayor.

In 1969, Feinstein won a position on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors which she held for nine years, becoming the first female president of the Board. During her tenure, she unsuccessfully ran for mayor of San Francisco twice, in 1971 and then in a 1975 contest for a runoff slot.

In November 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. As president of the Board of Supervisors, Feinstein automatically ascended to the mayoral position. She served out the remainder of the term and was elected in her own right in 1979 and re-elected in 1983. In 1984 she proposed banning handguns in San Francisco, and became subject to a recall attempt organized by the White Panther Party. She won the recall election and finished her second term as mayor in 1988.

In 1990 Feinstein made an unsuccessful bid for Governor of California, losing to Republican Senator Pete Wilson, who vacated his seat in the Senate to assume the governorship. In 1992, she was fined $190,000 for failure to properly report campaign contributions and expenditures associated with that campaign.

U.S. Senate career
In 1992, Feinstein won a special election to fill the Senate seat which became vacant in 1990 when Pete Wilson was elected governor (in an election against Feinstein). She was re-elected in 1994, again in 2000, and is running for a third full term in 2006. In 1998 and 2003, some advised her to run for governor, but she declined.

Because of her record of compromising with Republicans, Feinstein is distrusted by some on the political left. She is often labeled unfavorably by them as pro-business, as she has voted for most lawsuit reform measures and was a co-sponsor of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. She voted for the first tax cuts in 2001 and also for the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act in 2003. Both positions were unpopular with many in her own party.

Senator Feinstein initially supported the use of military force in Iraq and recently has claimed that she was misled by President Bush on the reasons for going to war.

Feinstein is a firm supporter of capital punishment and of a constitutional amendment to ban the "desecration" of the American flag. Critics point out positions like these to indicate that she is not a "true" or "loyal" Democrat. Defenders point to her record on other issues: she voted against NAFTA (although she voted for CAFTA), the Defense of Marriage Act, school prayer, welfare reform, and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

She has numerous critics on the political right as well. Her support for abortion rights has earned her the ire of pro-life groups. She is also opposed by gun rights organizations.

In 1993, Feinstein, along with then-Representative Charles Schumer (D-NY), led the fight to ban many semi-automatic firearms and restrict the sale of firearm magazines deemed "assault weapons." The ban was passed as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. In 2004, when the ban was set to expire, Feinstein sponsored a 10-year extension of the ban as an amendment to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act; while the amendment was successfully added, the act itself failed. The act was then revived in 2005, and, despite Feinstein's best efforts, was passed without an extension of the assault weapons ban.





In July 2006, Feinstein gave her support to a bill by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) that would allow Congress to file a lawsuit to get presidential signing statements declared unconstitutional.

For further details see the Congresspedia article on presidential signing statements.


Committees

Senate Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittee on Agriculture Rural Development and Related Agencies
Subcommittee on Defense
Subcommittee on Energy and Water
Subcommittee on Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Interior
Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs - Ranking Minority Member
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Energy
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests
Subcommittee on Water and Power
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Subcommittee on the Constitution Civil Rights and Property Rights
Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs
Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security and Citizenship
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
Subcommittee on Technology Terrorism and Homeland Security - Ranking Minority Member

Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Candidate data
Background information on Dianne Feinstein from Project Vote Smart
Interest group scorecard ratings for Dianne Feinstein from Project Vote Smart
Voting record for Dianne Feinstein from the Washington Post database
Information on Dianne Feinstein from Congress Merge
Wikipedia also has an article on Dianne Feinstein. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.


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Answer 2

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