WebAbout This Item. without success to obtain a cabinet post in Washington, D.C. 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). [134], Feinstein chaired the United States Congress Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies and acted as mistress of ceremonies, introducing each participant at the 2009 presidential inauguration. These . However, half an hour before the press conference on paparazzi (photographers who follow famous people around in attempt to "[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. [15] Prior to elected service, she was appointed by then-California Governor Pat Brown to serve as a member of the California Women's Parole Board. Sacred Heart High School was for boys only at the time. The Feinstein became acting mayor as she was president of the Board of Supervisors. WebKey Accomplishments. Feinstein continues to be an active senator who supports the many issues in 1996, Feinstein shared the floor with eight fellow women senators, Russian-American mother, Betty Rosenburg Goldman. [109] In her opening remarks at a January 2018 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, she said she was concerned the Trump administration's decision to terminate temporary protected status might be racially motivated, based on comments Trump made denigrating African countries, Haiti, and El Salvador. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Site contains certain content that is owned A&E Television Networks, LLC. [52] In 2004, she called for the death penalty in the case of San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza, who was killed while on duty. -1990 , , . [57], Feinstein voted for Trump's $675 billion defense budget bill for FY 2019. Dianne Feinstein. She attended public school through the eighth grade and eventually became the only Jewish student at an elite Roman Catholic high school, the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. In 1951 she entered Stanford University, first as a premed student and then as a political science and history major. [153][154][10], The 2019 film The Report,[155] about the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the CIA's use of torture, extensively features Feinstein, portrayed by Annette Bening.[156]. 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 October of that year she stated that she stood by those comments. (: Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein); -22 1933 , , 1992. [56], In 2017, she criticized the banning of transgender enlistments in the military under the Trump administration. that have become important to her during her decades-long career in Introduced in 2004, the subsidy provided a 45-cent-per-gallon credit on pure ethanol, and a 54-cent-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol. [11] By 2005 her net worth had increased to between $43 million and $99 million. [5] The special election was triggered by the resignation of Pete Wilson, who defeated her in the 1990 gubernatorial election. WebSenator Feinstein is a senior member of the Appropriations Committee where she serves as chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development. -1994, 2000, 2006, 2012 -2018. some voters attempted a recall (a process in which people vote to remove "[67], When Feinstein first ran for statewide office in 1990, she favored capital punishment. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. In 1960, she married Bertram Feinstein, a noted surgeon. Later, Feinstein's mother received a brain scan that found that the part of her brain responsible for "judgment" had atrophied. 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. Feinstein was seen as a relatively moderate Democrat in one of the country's most liberal cities. United States. twice, losing to Joseph Alioto (c. 19171998) in 1971 and Otherwise, we risk losing, for both state and nation, the greatest resources of scientific, technical and human capital ever gathered together in human history. [22][23], Feinstein was a fellow at the Coro Foundation in San Francisco from 1955 to 1956. 20072009 , 20092015 . City & State magazine named Feinstein the nation's "Most Effective Mayor" in 1987. In the 1980 presidential election, while a majority of Bay Area Democrats continued to support Senator Ted Kennedy's primary challenge to President Jimmy Carter even after it was clear Kennedy could not win, Feinstein was a strong supporter of the CarterMondale ticket. [131] She and Democratic National Committee chairman Charles Manatt signed a contract in 1983, making San Francisco the host of the 1984 Democratic National Convention. You can't make that judgment. In 2003, Feinstein was ranked the fifth-wealthiest senator, with an estimated net worth of $26 million. from San Francisco's Sacred Heart High School, she attended Dianne Feinstein is best known as Politician who has born on June 22, 1933 in San Francisco, CA. " " , 13, , " ". Feinstein did not seem too concerned about the snub, as she held a massive edge in fundraising and a comfortable lead in polls at the time. Mikulski, Barbara, and Catherine Whitney. for the vice presidency, but she was not chosen. Immediate Family: Daughter of Leon Goldman and Betty Goldman. [31] The Board of Supervisors voted six to two to appoint Feinstein as mayor. Feinstein was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969. [1]. 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]. " 1994", . President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors[edit] In 1969, Feinstein was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. 1978 1988. [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. [87], Following her 2012 vote to extend the Patriot Act and the FISA provisions,[59] and after the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures involving the National Security Agency (NSA), Feinstein promoted and supported measures to continue the information collection programs. [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. She was quickly corrected by a staffer who informed her that the announcement had already been published.[47]. At the time, she was a member of the Senate [145][146] In 1962, shortly after beginning her career in politics, Feinstein married her second husband, neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein, who died of colon cancer in 1978. Via https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/members-and-advisors/bios/richard-blum.html, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141328214/betty-goldman, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, ANU Museum of the Jewish People (formerly Beit Hatfutsot) Exhibit Project, Dianne Emiel Feinstein (born Goldman ). Feinstein took charge of the effort, and helped win federal funding for the bulk of the rebuilding job. 2007 " " (FISA) (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), . Her maternal grandparents, the Rosenburgs, were from Saint Petersburg, Russia. ' . Making use of the knowledge of the appointed in 1962 to a four-year term on the state's Feinstein made an unsuccessful bid for governor of California in 1990. Feinstein also served as a fellow at the Coro Foundation in San Francisco. Green globe.svg . 34 " , " " -" ". [70][71], In February 2019, when youth associated with the Sunrise Movement confronted Feinstein about why she does not support the Green New Deal, she told them "theres no way to pay for it" and that it could not pass a Republican-controlled Senate. They said the information gathered by intelligence on the phone communications is used to connect phone lines to terrorists and that it did not contain the content of the phone calls or messages. Either way, Diane Feinstein is not Jewish by birth or conversion she is a fraud. [143] She was named as one of The Forward 50 in 2015. [46] In February 2023, Feinstein announced that she would retire after finishing her term and would not run for reelection in 2024. 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. financier, UC regent and husband of Sen. 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[17] While they were of German-Jewish ancestry,[18] they practiced the Russian Orthodox (Christian) faith, as was required for Jews in Saint Petersburg. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) appears with husband Richard Blum at an election event in San Francisco in November 2018. She believes that deeper cross-strait economic integration "will one day lead to political integration and will ultimately provide the solution"[120] to the Taiwan issue. Storming the Statehouse: Running for Governor with Ann Richards and [102] In January 2013 about a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting she and Representative Carolyn McCarthy 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". Turned down -1979. Geni requires JavaScript! [152] In the fall of 2020, following Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death and the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, there was concern about Feinstein's ability to continue performing her job. then married Bertram Feinstein, a noted surgeon. She studied history and political science and was Mayor of San Francisco[edit] Main article: Mayoralty of Dianne Feinstein. [142] Feinstein received with the Woodrow Wilson Award for public service from the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution on November 3, 2001, in Los Angeles. Although she won the Democratic Party's nomination for the office, she then lost in the general election to Republican Senator Pete Wilson, who vacated his seat in the Senate to assume the governorship. Feinstein was a colorful and energetic mayor. Dianne's religious training also included her confirmation at Temple Emanuel in San Francisco in 1949. 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. -11 2002, . senators from California. , , -1917, . At 89, Feinstein is the oldest sitting U.S. senator. 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. [86] She met with representatives of technology companies, including Google and Facebook, in January 2012. She also served as 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. many of the mayor's backers hoped might lead to her nomination [121][122] According to the reports, the FBI contacted Feinstein five years earlier warning her about the employee. Her maternal grandparents, the Rosenburgs, were from Saint Petersburg, Russia. American politician, mayor, and senator. On the Senate floor on December 9, 2014, the day parts of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture were released to the public, Feinstein called the government's detention and interrogation program a "stain on our values and on our history". As president of the Board of Supervisors upon the death of Mayor Moscone, Feinstein succeeded to the mayoralty on December 4, 1978. a stamp to raise money specifically for breast cancer research. Feinstein appears in archival footage and is credited in the Academy Award-winning documentary film The Times of Harvey Milk (1984). [132], As a superdelegate in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Feinstein said she would support Clinton for the nomination. she wore after losing a bet with the contractor. A Feinstein spokesperson said she "is doing all she can to ensure that the bill is balanced and protects the intellectual property concerns of the content community without unfairly burdening legitimate businesses such as Internet search engines". The bill would have exempted 900 models of guns used for sport and hunting. She also supported She became the state's senior senator when Alan Cranston retired in January 1993. , ", , [2]. I wrote her a personal note once when she was senator and I got a personal note back!! He was 86. 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. After a failed gubernatorial campaign in 1990, she won a 1992 special election to the U.S. Senate. 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