But it's been clear for last few years that her cognitive decline is serious. Let Gov. Newsom appoint someone who can fully represent CA's interests until election. I'm not a name caller. Throughout my career, I've always been willing to work with my colleagues in both parties to enact pragmatic solutions to the problems facing our state and our nation.
If re-elected to the Senate, I will continue to work in a bipartisan manner on behalf of the American people. Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.
Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it. Senator Feinstein has dedicated her career to preserving our natural spaces, combatting climate change, and fighting for environmental justice. Senator Feinstein led a successful bipartisan effort to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
A champion of preserving open space, she authored the historic California Desert Protection Act, which preserved more than seven million acres of California desert - the largest designation in the history of the continental United States.
At her urging, President Obama used his authority under the Antiquities Act in to designate three new national monuments in the California desert, which protected almost 2 million additional acres.
She also authored successful legislation that saved nearly , acres of wilderness across Northern California, added 25, acres of land to the Redwood National Park in Del Norte County, and preserved over 21 miles of the Black Butte River in Mendocino County. Senator Feinstein has also been a leader in preserving our waterways. By the s, the San Francisco Bay had lost an estimated 85 percent of its historic wetlands to development, destruction, or alteration.
She took action and personally negotiated the purchase of more than 16, acres of endangered wetlands from industrial developers along the San Francisco Bay and Napa River—the largest restoration of wetlands in California history. She tried to find his pulse and instead put her finger in a bullet hole. So she knows from first-hand experience about the violence that only guns can inflict on our fellow Californians. An issue of personal importance to her, Senator Feinstein authored the landmark assault weapons ban, which banned military-style firearms from to Over that decade, the number of gun massacres fell by 37 percent and the number of people dying from gun massacres fell by 43 percent.
Now, since the assault weapons ban expired and after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in that killed 20 first graders and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut, more than people have been shot in more than school shootings. Tragedies in Parkland, Las Vegas, Newtown, Aurora, San Bernardino, and so many more have shocked the nation and demonstrated the need to act.
Senator Feinstein has introduced a new Assault Weapons Ban to halt the sale, manufacture, transfer and importation of the most commonly-owned military-style assault weapons and ban large-capacity magazines that are specifically designed to inflict maximum casualties.
She will also continue to author and support additional legislation to enact sensible gun laws, including: closing the gun-show loophole, holding arms manufacturers accountable, raising the minimum age to purchase firearms, and preventing those on the terrorist watch list from buying a gun. Senator Feinstein strongly supports universal health care for all Americans, and with her colleagues in the Senate, stopped Republicans attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
In , when the Senate was considering the Affordable Care Act, she sponsored legislation to create a public option to compete with private health insurance, which she continues to support. She also supports lowering the age for Medicare eligibility to 55, mandating that Medicare negotiates for drug prices which it currently does not , allowing HHS to reject unreasonable premium increases and requiring 85 percent of all premium dollars to go to patients, instead of 80 percent.
As co-chair of the Senate Cancer Coalition, Senator Feinstein has also been a leader in increasing funding for disease research. She helped stop Donald Trump's plan to cut funding from the National Institutes of Health and introduced bipartisan legislation to improve breast cancer detection. She also sponsored the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act, which led to an improved emphasis and strategy for research of top deadly cancers.
Senator Feinstein was proud to work closely with Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers to author the Agricultural Worker Program Act to put farmworkers on a path to earned legal status and citizenship.
Senator Feinstein believes we must come together to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, backlog reduction, assistance for immigrant members of the armed services and their families, visa reform, and humanitarian relief for families. Senator Feinstein is committed to creating an economy that works for all Americans, not just those at the very top.
This legislation further harms Californians by eliminating the deduction for state and local taxes claimed by more than six million California households. Instead, Senator Feinstein has championed expanding economic access for working and middle class Californians. She joined Senator Elizabeth Warren to coauthor legislation that would allow individuals with existing student loan debt to refinance at much lower interest rates.
And she authored the Small Business Lending and Inequality Reduction Act, which would increase resources available for small businesses in traditionally underserved communities. Senator Feinstein is also a proud cosponsor of the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, which would at long last institute paid family leave, including maternity leave.
She is also a cosponsor of the Healthy Families Act which would allow employees to take paid sick days. Finally, Senator Feinstein knows that creating an economy for all also means reducing the influence of special interests in Washington. And she also coauthored a proposed constitutional amendment that would overturn Citizens United once and for all. The following table shows a list of notable endorsements made by this individual or organization.
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Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law. Source: Follow the Money. In an analysis by Open Secrets of the Top 10 Recipients of Contributions from Lobbyists in , Feinstein was 1 of members of Congress who did not report any contributions from lobbyists in as of July 3, Feinstein won re-election to the U.
Senate in Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack , Feinstein was a rank-and-file Democrat as of July This was the same rating Feinstein received in June According to the website GovTrack, Feinstein missed of 7, roll call votes from February to September This amounts to 2.
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Click the link above for the full ratings of all members of Congress. Feinstein ranked 22nd in the liberal rankings among U. Feinstein ranked 26th in the liberal rankings among U.
Feinstein ranked 15th in the liberal rankings among U. The website OpenCongress tracks the voting records of each member to determine with whom he or she votes most and least often. The results include a member from each party. The website OpenCongress tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus.
Feinstein voted with the Democratic Party The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. She ranked 2nd on the list of the highest paid Democratic senatorial staff salaries and ranked 2nd overall of the highest paid senatorial staff salaries in Overall, California ranked 1st in average salary for senatorial staff.
The average U. On March 19, , the New York Times alleged Feinstein, along with some other senators, traded stocks after receiving a Senate Intelligence Committee briefing related to the effect the coronavirus outbreak will have on the American economy. On May 14, , a spokesperson for Feinstein, Tom Mentzer, said that Feinstein answered questions from federal law enforcement agents and provided documents to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the investigation into her and other senators' stock sales.
On May 26, aides from Feinstein's office confirmed that the Department of Justice notified them of the conclusion of the investigation into the trades. The Personal Gain Index U. Congress is a two-part measurement that illustrates the extent to which members of the U. Congress have prospered during their tenure as public servants. It consists of two different metrics:.
Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets. Feinstein ranked as the 4th most wealthy senator in Between and , the average annual percentage increase for a member of Congress was Filings required by the Federal Election Commission report on the industries that give to each candidate.
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