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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Sen. Dianne Feinstein adds a provision to a spending bill that would allow Drakes Bay Oyster Co. to continue running inside Point Reyes National Seashore, which is set to become protected wilderness. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Tuesday attached a rider to a spending bill that would allow California's largest commercial shellfish farm to continue operating in a Bay Area national park.
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Vidiot Speak (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
It's obvious that the West has had something to do with the mess in Iran. The following summary, with extensive links, highlights the major evidence that suggests western intelligence agencies are aiding in stirring up unrest inside Iran as part of a "color revolution" to foment regime change. (Another analysis can be found here .) Also, if you read Obama's speech on the issue, The Iranian...
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Sisyphus (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Matthew Yglesias contemplates the undemocratic representation and Rube Goldberg -esque nature of our national government: …the entire structure of the US Congress with its bicameralism and multiple overlapping committees is biased toward making it easy for concentrated interests to block reform. Between them, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, Kristen Gillibrand, Bill Nelson, Dick...
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Congresswomen Dianne Feinstein and Susan Collins fret in today’s Wall Street Journal that their “good idea” went “bad”. They and Senator Chuck Shumer were going to stop global warming by subsidizing the purchase of fuel efficient cars. But their “Cash for Clunkers” proposal was hijacked by lobbyists so that your tax money would go to subsidizing Hummers. Their...
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Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
Duty free access to US market faces opposition Kazi Azizul Islam Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein introduces a bill at the US Senate seeking trade relief for 14 Asian LDCs, including Bangladesh. The government and industry stakeholders have been advised for pursuing effective lobbying and campaigns against the stand of some countries those are opposing a recreantly reintroduced bill in the US Senate...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 06/06/2009
By CHARLES M. BLOW NYT Fringe Republican race-baiting on Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, has fallen flat. According to polls, most Americans want to see her confirmed. Furthermore, the picture that those Republicans painted of Sotomayor doesn’t seem to be supported by her actions. The Scotusblog examined her court of appeals decisions in race-related cases and found that she rejected...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce flies 287 executives -- the bulk of them from California -- to Washington to lobby Feinstein and others not to back a compromise to make it easier to organize workers. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and two other senators have emerged as focal points of an intense lobbying campaign aimed at heading off a proposed compromise over "card check," the controversial...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) | The world's most powerful laser, created to help keep tabs on the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile while also studying the heavens, is out from under wraps. The super laser, known officially as the National Ignition Facility, was shown Friday at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about 50 miles east of San Francisco. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S....
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PAXALLES (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
"Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer of May 31st focused on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor and featured Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Jon Kyl. Kyl said he will meet with her on Tuesday and said he will ask...
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Horserace (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
Senator Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., would not say whether the use of the word "racist" by some Republicans to describe Sonia Sotomayor, based on an 8-year-old comment by President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, was or was not fair, when asked by host Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation Sunday. "Bob, I am not going to get drawn into characterizations before I have even met her," he said, noting...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein Friday had some tough love regarding Californians' growing complaints about major cuts to state services -- welfare, health care and parks among them...
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Catholic Fire (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Is She Catholic? Here is Catholic League Presiden t Bill Donohue's reaction Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court: When John Roberts was nominated to be on the high court, Senator Dick Durbin told CNN that he considered it fair game to probe Roberts about his Catholicism. Durbin released a glowing statement yesterday on Sotomayor that never mentioned her religion. When Roberts was...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said today it is unlikely she will run for governor, but said whoever does should have a specific plan to fix the budget mess. That way, the winner will have a...
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Later On (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
Spencer Ackerman: Two Democratic senators who are apparently unafraid of jailing Guantanamo detainees in civilian prisons in their states: Dianne Feinstein of California and Carl Levin of Michigan. Ali Frick of ThinkProgress and Josh Rogin of CQ report.
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