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As a senator, Feinstein authored the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, was the first woman to chair the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, and was the first woman to preside over a U.S. presidential inauguration.
Laphonza Romanique Butler (/ l ə ˈ f ɔː n z ə / lə-FON-zə; born May 11, 1979) is an American labor union official and politician who served as a United States senator from California from 2023 to 2024.
Among the women elected or appointed in Senate history, by stature, Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) are the shortest, at 4 feet 11 inches (1.50 m), whereas Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) is the tallest, at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m).
Feinstein broke many gender barriers: First woman to serve as a U.S. senator from California (Sen. Barbara Boxer was sworn in two months later), first woman to chair the Senate Intelligence ...
Feinstein would go on to become the first woman elected Senator of California in the historic year of the woman alongside Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in 1992. She was also the first woman to ...
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California died at the age of 90 at her home in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
California elects United States senators to class 1 and class 3. The state has been represented by 48 people in the Senate since it was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. Its U.S. senators are Democrats Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. Dianne Feinstein was the state's longest serving senator, who served from 1992 until her death in 2023.
Dianne Feinstein, the trailblazing senator who represented California for 30 years, died on Thursday night. She was 90. The news was confirmed in a statement from Feinstein’s chief of staff ...