Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) signals a victory sign to her supporters during a rally in West Hollywood, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 5, 1994. Feinstein is being challenged by businessman Michael Huffington in the most expensive race in congressional history.
MICHAEL CAULFIELD, Associated Press
U.S. Senators elect, Barbara Boxer (left) and Dianne Feinstein wave to supporters early Wednesday morning after being elected to the U.S. Senate. Dubbing themselves “Cagney and Lacy” after the hit TV series about two female police detectives, the pair become the first women to represent a state in the Senate.
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Women of the US Senate photographed in the Old Senate Chamber in the US Capitol. They are (front row) Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX, left, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-MD, (middle row) Sen. Patty Murray, D-WA, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, (back row) Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, R-ME, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-LA, Sen. Blanche L. Lincoln, D-AR, and Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-ME.
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Larry King, left talks to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Ca. and Republican challenger Michael Huffington during a break in a television debate of the California senatorial candidates on CNN’s “Larry King Live” show Thursday, Oct. 6, 1994, in Washington.
MARCY NIGHSWANDER, Associated Press
Rep. Nita Lowey, D-NY, far left, Sen. Barbara Boxer, far right, Sarah Brady, and other women in Congress listen as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA., outlines their support for a ban on assault weapons in a press conference on May 3, 1994, on Capitol Hill.
BILL PERRY, GPN
Senator Dianne Feinstein answers questions from the media after accepting endorsements from prominent Republications and Democrats from Orange County Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1994, at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, Calif. The Democratic Senator denied charges from her Republican opponent, Michael Huffington, that she had employed an illegal alien.
CHRIS MARTINEZ, Associated Press
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) greets Kate S. Denson, left, and Peg Dorr during a constituent lunch in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, Sept. 9, 1994. Feinstein discussed the benefits to Pasadena of the recent crime bill passed through Congress. Feinstein faces Republican challenger Michael Huffington in November’s general election.
NICK UT, Associated Press
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, accompanied by Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., holds an AR-15 assault-style rifle with a collapsible stock during a Capitol Hill news conference Friday, March 22, 1996, after the House voted to repeal the two-year-old assault-style firearms ban. Feinstein, a key Senate sponsor of the ban, told reporters she was outraged by the House vote and promised: “This will be dead on arrival in the Senate.”
JOHN DURICKA, Associated Press
Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein makes a point while discussing the growth and shift in federal budgets over the past 25 years during an address to the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce Monday, Oct. 10, 1994, in Sacramento, Calif. Feinstein is running for re-election against Republican Michael Huffington.
BOB GALBRAITH, Associated Press
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, left, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., call on President Clinton to reverse the Base Closure and Realignment Commission’s decision to close or trim down several California military facilities during a news conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday, June 27, 1995.
JOE MARQUETTE, Associated Press
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., looks on as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., discusses the Victim Restitution Act on Capitol Hill Monday, April 22, 1996. The measure, passed by the House last week, redresses an imbalance between the way in which victims and criminals are treated by the legal system.
JOHN DURICKA, Associated Press
Kevin Harris, a friend of white separatist Randy Weaver, second from left, points to a model of Weaver’s Ruby Ridge, Idaho land while testifying on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1995, before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee. From left are, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Harris, Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Sen Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis.
JOE MARQUETTE, Associated Press
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., introduce legislation Monday, Feb. 2, 1998, that would place a 10-year federal moratorium on the cloning of human beings during a Capitol Hill news conference. The law would prohibit any person from attempting to clone a human being using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology and would extend to both private and publicly-funded research.
RON EDMONDS, Associated Press
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., addresses approximately 125 mayors, city officials, police, and school officials from California and New Mexico in Long Beach, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 1998. Feinstein contends that the greatest threats to public safety in American communities are illegal drugs and the criminal gangs that distribute them.
NICK UT, Associated Press
President Clinton and his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton look on as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., talks about proposed gun-control legislation, Tuesday, April 27, 1999, in the Old Executive Office Building in Washington. One week to the day after the Colorado school shooting, the president proposed raising the legal age for handgun possession from 18 to 21 and holding negligent parents liable when their children commit crimes with guns.
RON EDMONDS, Associated Press
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CALIF).
H. DARR BEISER, USA TODAY
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres celebrate Feinstein’s primary win at the California Democratic Party’s election night gala at the Regal Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 7, 2000.
MARK J TERRILL, Associated Press
Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice, left, thanks Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA who introduced her to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before her confirmation hearing on Jan. 18, 2005, in Washington DC.
Tim Dillon, USAT
Executive Business Meeting by the Committee on Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), right, and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), center, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R- Iowa) converse prior to the meeting of the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jack Gruber, USAT
The Judiciary votes on Roberts- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA confers with the senior Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT during the mark-up hearing on the confirmation of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on Sept. 22, 2005, Leahy voted for confirmation, Feinstein voted against, with the whole committee splitting 13 to 5 in favor.
Tim Dillon, USAT
US Senator Dianne Feinstein (L), D-CA, US Senator Arlen Specter (C), R-PA, US Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R), R-UT, brief the media on the need for stem cell research on April 21, 2005, in Washington, DC.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., talk during the first day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in Washington, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2005. Judge Roberts was nominated by President Bush to be the 17th chief justice.
BILL CLARK, GNS
The Senate Judiciary Committee in a voice vote moved to authorize Chairman Patrick Leahy, left, to issue subpoenas to compel members of the White House staff to testify before them concerning the firing of eight on March 22, 2007, U.S. Attorneys. Here he talks with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA before the vote.
Tim Dillon, USAT
Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) appear on “FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace” on March 25, 2007, at the FOX News Sunday studios in Washington, DC. The senators spoke about the firing of U.S. attorneys and the war in Iraq.
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Senate Rules Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) talks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol on January 7, 2009, in Washington, DC. Feinstein said that Roland Burris is entitled to be sworn in as a senator from Illinois to fill the seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. Burris’ appointment has been held up by the Illinois secretary of state because it was made by Gov. Rod Blagojevich who is being investigated for alleged corruption related to the appointment.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) delivers the keynote speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s 2009 Los Angeles Gala and Hero Awards, Saturday, March 14, 2009, in Los Angeles.
Gus Ruelas, AP
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, meets with Director of National Intelligence-designate Adm. Dennis Blair in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009.
Susan Walsh, AP
California law professor Goodwin Liu, talks with Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 16, 2010, prior to testifying before the committee’s hearing on his nomination to be US Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
Charles Dharapak, AP
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, questions National Security Agency Deputy Director John C. Inglis, and other top Obama administration officials about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs for the first time since the House narrowly rejected a proposal last week to effectively shut down the NSA’s secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone records, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 31, 2013.
J. Scott Applewhite, AP
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) takes an elevator in the U.S. Capitol on April 16, 2013, in Washington, DC. The Senate Democrats are meeting for their weekly policy luncheon.
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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) speaks next to a display of assault weapons during a news conference on Jan. 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Feinstein announced that she will introduce a bill to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds to help to stop gun violence.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, as she leaves the Senate chamber after releasing a report on the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques at secret overseas facilities. Feinstein branded the findings a “stain on the nation’s history.”
J. Scott Applewhite, AP
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. talks to reporters as she leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, after saying that the CIA’s improper search of a stand-alone computer network established for Congress has been referred to the Justice Department. The issue stems from the investigation into allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program.
J. Scott Applewhite, AP
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) delivers remarks about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program during a gala event hosted by the Human Rights First organization, at the Newseum, Dec. 10, 2014, in Washington, DC. Sen. Feinstein and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) were honored by the organization for “their commitments to ending the use of torture to interrogate terrorism suspects.”
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FBI Director nominee Christopher Wray, center, stands with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, right, before the start of his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 12, 2017, in Washington. President Donald Trump nominated Wray for the position on June 7, after firing James Comey in May.
Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
(L-R) U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) listen during a meeting with bipartisan members of the Congress at the Cabinet Room of the White House on Feb. 28, 2018, in Washington, DC. President Trump held a meeting with lawmakers to discuss school and community safety.
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Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-California) holds up the report as the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dec. 11, 2019. The Inspector General will discuss the findings of his investigation into the DOJ and FBI’s conduct during the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant process as it relates to the 2016 presidential election.
Jack Gruber, USAT
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is surrounded by members of the press as she arrives for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 21, 2020, in Washington, DC. In a statement on the passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said President Trump’s nominee for the bench will receive a vote in the U.S. Senate.
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(L-R) Senator Chuck Grassley (R – IA), Senator Al Franken (D – MN), and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D – CA) are seen during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing of Rod Rosenstein for Deputy Attorney General and Rachel L. Brand for Associate Attorney General.
Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., center, with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., points to a photograph of a rifle with a “bump stock” during a news conference to announce proposed gun control legislation at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 4, 2017.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., right and a staff member speak during a break as Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing on Sept. 4, 2018, in Washington. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired from the Supreme Court in July.
Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2022. Feinstein is not the first senator to take an extended medical absence from the Senate or face questions about her age or cognitive abilities. But the open discussion over her capacity to serve underscores how the Senate has changed in recent years, and how high-stakes partisanship has divided the once-collegial Senate.
J. Scott Applewhite, AP
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) heads to the Senate Chamber for a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. Feinstein announced Tuesday that she will not seek re-election in 2024.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) arrives at the U.S. Capitol follow a long absence due to health issues on May 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. Feinstein was fighting a case of shingles and has been absent from the Senate for almost three months.
Megan Smith, USA TODAY
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) escorts Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) as she arrives at the U.S. Capitol following a long absence due to health issues on May 10, 2023, in Washington, DC. Feinstein was fighting a case of shingles and had been absent from the Senate for almost three months.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) at the Senate Judiciary Business meeting at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 18, 2023.
Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Front row L-R, U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), back row L-R, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE), Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) participate in a photo session at the U.S. Capitol on Seersucker Thursday, June 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. Senators wear seersucker clothing on Seersucker Thursday, an annual tradition that was initiated by former Senate Majority Leader Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) in 1996, to mark the National Seersucker Day.
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