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• Dems to throw elders under the bus

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Look, Im totally sure that paying to bail out the insurance companies by cutting Medicare wont have any real effects on old people who are going to die soon anyhow. Especially given this great news : Senators from both parties on Tuesday put new pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to turn the power to trim ...
  21 hours ago

• Feinstein’s CIA Inquiry Will Finish ‘Early Next Year’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  It may not be the 9/11 Commission, and may not have the force of, say, John Durham’s Justice Department inquiry into prospective CIA illegality in the Bush administration’s so-called ‘enhanced interrogation program.’ But a panel helmed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Select ...
  2 days ago

• Franken co-sponsors bill to get unexamined rape kits tested

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 683
  Photo: Chris Steller, MnIndy U.S. Sen. Al Franken introduced legislation Thursday that would encourage states to examine untested rape kits for DNA evidence. The bill would also provide for more health workers trained to administer rape-kit exams, particularly for Native American women. Another aspect of the ...
  6 days ago

• Senate Panel Clears Data Breach Bills

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 118
  Image via WikipediaLegislation Heads for a Senate VoteNovember 5, 2009 - Eric Chabrow, Managing EditorThe Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved two companion bills that would require... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  6 days ago

• Will Dianne Feinstein Vote for High Speed Rail?

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 551
  Todays San Jose Mercury News includes a fantastic op-ed by State Senator Dean Florez (Fresno) and Erin Steva of CALPIRG, calling on US Senator Dianne Feinstein to support the $4 billion for high speed rail currently pending in the Senate: Sen. Dianne Feinstein has established herself as a high-speed rail ...
  1 week ago

• Bill introduced to extend commitment to restoring Lake Tahoe

  
  mavenandmeddler — Authority: 129
  I got the press release today: “Washington, DC – Nevada Senator Harry Reid, along with Senators Dianne Feinstein, John Ensign and Barbara Boxer today introduced sweeping legislation to protect Lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Basin from a variety of serious threats.  Congressman Dean Heller introduced companion ...
  1 week ago

• Feinstein: Public Option Alone Will Not Solve America’s Health Care & Repeal Anti-Trust Exemption

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  Dandelion SaladVoiceofAmericans2008November 02, 2009 more about “Feinstein: Public Option Alone Will N…“, posted with vodpodseeWhat Physicians Know by Joel S. HirschhornPublic Bailout of Private Insurance – Dump health reform NOW!Dennis Kucinich: Is the 2-Party System truly capable of representing the American ...
  1 week ago

• Feinstein Proposes Insurance Rate Authority

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 152
  Dianne Feinstein proposes a medical insurance rate authority that would oversee private insurers premium rates, a pretty good idea. I agree with Feinstein, that ultimately, healthcare must be nonprofit, especially given the recent threat by insurers that if reform passes, premiums will increase.
  1 week ago

• Why Newsom Dropped Out

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 148
  Joe Mathews is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Irvine, California. In the days ahead, you may hear all kinds of explanations for why San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom dropped out of the race for governor. Poor fundraising. Poor standing the polls. Internal problems in his campaign. But none of them ...
  1 week ago

• Gavin Newsom Drops Out of Governors Race

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  Robert Cruickshank Wow. Statement sent via email: It is with great regret I announce today that I am withdrawing from the race for governor of California. With a young family and responsibilities at city hall, I have found it impossible to commit the time ...
  1 week ago

• Both California Senators Pushed for the Public Option

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  Brian Leubitz Sometimes Sen. Feinstein gets a hard time around these parts, but on the public option, it seems she and Senator Boxer are paddling in the same direction.  Both Senators pushed Sen. Reid to include the public option in the bill that will be ...
  2 weeks ago

• California Members of Congress Lobbying Hard for HSR Money

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 551
  As the decision point for awarding $8 billion in federal HSR stimulus nears, and with some $50 billion in applications submitted, Californias federal representatives are making a strong push to ensure California gets a significant portion of those funds: Employing every tool of persuasion from gift books and ...
  2 weeks ago

• East County Dems denouce short shrift of ACORN

  
  Last Blog On Earth — Authority: 427
  East County Democratic Club (ECDC) members expressed outrage last week at what they view as congressional Democrats’ capitulation to a right-wing assault against ACORN, the social-service agency that advocates for poor and moderate-income families. “This is what frustrates me about the Democrats, our ...
  2 weeks ago

• DiFi: HSR Should Use Transbay Terminal

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 551
  Weve been calling for federal representatives to speak up and help resolve some of the key HSR disputes in California, and it looks like thats exactly what theyre starting to do. Senator Dianne Feinstein wrote a letter to Ray LaHood calling for the feds to fund the construction of an HSR train box at Transbay ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reprise: Patriot Act Heroes and Zeroes on the Senate Judiciary Committee

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  (A hat tip to Ramone for the suggestion ) If you were hibernating in the early part of October, you missed the spectacle of eight blind donkeys rearing on their hind legs in an acrobatic effort to form the shape of an all-seeing eye. On October 1 and October 8, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to consider ...
  3 weeks ago

• Feinstein: All Health Insurance Should Be Nonprofit

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  TWI reader ajm8127 wrote in this afternoon with a thought on the insurance industry: “For profit health care insurance providers are a conflict of interest.” Well, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) agrees. During Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary hearing on insurers’ anti-trust exemption status, the California ...
  3 weeks ago

• FourBillion.com

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 551
  USPIRG, along with several state-based HSR organizations, have launched an online organizing effort to get the US Senate to preserve the $4 billion in HSR spending that the US House approved earlier this year. From the petition language: Right now, Congress is finalizing next years transportation appropriations ...
  4 weeks ago

• DiFi urges confirmation of NorCal judges

  
  Political Blotter — Authority: 570
  U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is urging swift action by the full Senate now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nominations of two people to serve as federal judges in Northern California.The committee today approved the nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judges Edward Chen and Richard Seeborg to ...
  4 weeks ago

• On Analogy and Imperial Ambition

  
  bastard.logic — Authority: 499
  by matttbastard What was that about Afghanistan not being even remotely analogous to Vietnam? Andrew Bacevich : Implementing the McChrystal plan will perpetuate the longstanding fundamentals of US national security policy: maintaining a global military presence, configuring US forces for global power ...
  4 weeks ago

• Starving artists lobby Feinstein

  
  HALFWAY TO CONCORD — Authority: 506
  Tim Westergren, former musician and now president of the popular online music service Pandora writes: The radio royalty system as it stands today is fundamentally unfair both to Internet radio services like Pandora, which pay far higher royalties than other forms of radio and to performing musicians, who receive no ...
  4 weeks ago

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