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On January 24, 2013, Dianne Feinstein and 24 Democratic cosponsors introduced S. 150, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, into the U.S. Senate. [19] [20] The bill was similar to the 1994 federal ban, but differed in that it used a one-feature test for a firearm to qualify as an assault weapon rather than the two-feature test of the 1994 ban. [21]
[19] Sen. John Barrasso, the third-ranking Senate Republican, said he had "a lot of concerns" about red flag laws. [20] On June 9, 2022, the House passed (Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order),a bill to nationalize red flag laws, which seek to keep guns away from individuals deemed a threat to themselves and others. [21]
One of the first votes new Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich cast was against legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein to reinstate an assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school ...
Feinstein introduced a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, the Respect for Marriage Act, in the 112th Congress. [98] The bill was passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on November 10, 2011. [99] She introduced a private bill to keep together a bi-national same-sex couple. [100]
Senate bargainers reached agreement Tuesday on a bipartisan gun violence bill, potentially teeing up final passage by week's end on an incremental but landmark package that would stand as Congress ...
The two women claimed victory over their Republican male rivals, Bruce Herschensohn and Sen. John Seymour. Feinstein, who served in the Senate for 30 years, died Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, at the age ...
[31] [32] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided to leave the proposed ban out of the broader gun control bill, saying that it was unlikely to win the 60 votes it needed in the 100-member chamber and that it would jeopardize more widely supported proposals. [33] [34] On the morning of April 17, 2013, the bill failed on a vote of 40 to 60.
As a senator, Ms Feinstein helped pass the Assault Weapons Ban and as chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, she led attempts to uncover the United States’s use of torture after 9/11.