Tributes are pouring in for Dianne Feinstein, the trailblazing California senator, who has died at 90
Feinstein died on Thursday night at her home in Washington, D.C., her office said on Friday. Opening the Senate floor,that"earlier this morning, we lost a giant in the Senate."
Her death came after a bout of shingles sidelined her for more than two months earlier this year — an absence that drew frustration from her most liberal critics and launched an unsuccessful attempt by Democrats to temporarily replace her on the Senate Judiciary Committee. When she returned to the Senate in May, she was frail and using a wheelchair, voting only occasionally.
Former president Barack Obama also saluted her as “a trailblazer," and former President Bill Clinton called her a champion “of civil rights and civil liberties, environmental protection and strong national security.” "I recognize that women have had to fight for everything they have gotten, every right," she told The Associated Press in 2005, as the Judiciary Committee prepared to hold hearings on President George W. Bush's nomination of John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on"So I must tell you, I try to look out for women's rights. I also try to solve problems as I perceive them, with legislation, and reaching out where I can, and working across the aisle," she said.
Feinstein remembered finding Milk’s 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. "I'm not a sixth grader,” Feinstein snapped back at the much younger Cruz — a moment that later went viral. She added:"It's fine you want to lecture me on the Constitution. I appreciate it. Just know I've been here a long time."
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.
"It's my very strong belief that one day this report should be declassified," Feinstein said."This must be a lesson learned: that torture doesn't work." Liberal advocacy groups that had fiercely opposed Barrett's nomination to replace the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg were furious and called for her to step down from the committee leadership.
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