Dianne Feinstein

December 18, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced that the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill includes a measure they sponsored to restrict the sale or transfer of cluster bombs.

The measure requires that no military funds will be used for the sale or transfer or cluster bombs, unless:

* the cluster bombs have a failure rate of 1 percent or less;    » read more »

December 18, 2007 -- Washington, DC – The Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill includes a provision to provide greater flexibility for U.S. funding of critical international HIV/AIDS prevention programs, U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) today announced.    » read more »

December 18, 2007 -- Washington, DC – The Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill includes language drafted by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to ensure that anyone who sexually abuses a person being held in federal custody can be fully prosecuted under federal law.    » read more »

December 18, 2007 -- Washington, DC – The Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill includes $2.85 millions for important California agriculture safety and inspection programs, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced.

“Exotic pests can decimate an entire crop. The USDA estimates that agricultural pests cost the American agricultural industry an annual loss of about $41 billion. In California alone, pest infestations cost farmers about $3 billion. So, it is critical that we fund programs to help protect our fields and farms from dangerous invasive pests.    » read more »

December 17, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- California's U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both D-CA), along with Representative Wally Herger (R-CA-02), led a unanimous bipartisan California congressional delegation in urging Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne to consider Northern California's Beale Air Force Base as the headquarters for the new Air Force Cyber Command.    » read more »

December 17, 2007 -- Washington, DC – The Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill approved by the Senate today includes a new public-private partnership established by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to begin addressing the Smithsonian Institution’s $2.5 billion facilities maintenance backlog.    » read more »

December 14, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today announced that she has secured a commitment from U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to make agriculture inspections at all points of entry into the United States a top priority of the Department. The agreement seeks to strengthen the nation’s first line of defense against destructive agricultural pests.    » read more »

Bill now goes to President to be signed into law

December 14, 2007 -- Washington, DC – The U.S. Senate has approved legislation sponsored by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to extend the sale of the highly successful Breast Cancer Research Stamp for four additional years beyond the current expiration date of December 31, 2007. The legislation is cosponsored by a bipartisan coalition of 62 additional Senators.    » read more »

December 13, 2007 -- "Mr. President, for the past five years, I’ve been working with my colleagues to close the Enron loophole that, since 2000, has exempted electronic energy markets for large traders from government oversight. This loophole opened the door to price manipulation and excessive speculation, and American consumers have been paying the price ever since with sky-high prices for crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, propane, and other energy commodities vital to a functioning U.S. economy.    » read more »

Measure will raise fleetwide average fuel economy standards to 35 mpg by 2020

December 13, 2007 -- Washington, DC – The Senate has approved a landmark bill to increase fleetwide average fuel economy standards for the first time in more than two decades, U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) announced today.    » read more »

FRESH Act to benefit California farmers by providing insurance worth $1.25 billion

December 11, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (both D-Calif.) today voted in support of major reforms to the Farm Bill proposed in the FRESH Act amendment, sponsored by Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.).    » read more »

FRESH Act to benefit California farmers by providing insurance worth $1.25 billion

December 11, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (both D-Calif.) today voted in support of major reforms to the Farm Bill proposed in the FRESH Act amendment, sponsored by Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.).    » read more »

December 6, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (both D-Calif.) today announced that they will oppose efforts by the Bush Administration to preempt the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and California from regulating tailpipe emissions.

Senators Feinstein and Boxer have long supported California’s request for a Clean Air Act waiver.

Following is the text of the letter sent by Senators Feinstein and Boxer to President Bush today:

December 6, 2007

The Honorable George W. Bush
The White House
Washington, DC 20500    » read more »

December 6, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both D-CA) today introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at preventing oil spills like the one that resulted after the Cosco Busan struck a bridge piling on November 7th, spilling more than 58,000 gallons of toxic bunker fuel into the San Francisco Bay.    » read more »

Legislation would provide benefits for contract firefighting pilots and air crews

December 5, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today joined with Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) to introduce the Aerial Firefighter Relief Act, which would extend federal death and disability benefits to contract pilots and air crews killed or injured while flying official firefighting missions for State or Federal agencies.    » read more »