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For fun, he plays water polo with the San Francisco Tsunami.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a62ebae45b79d7aed1a39a0e3bf68104?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"scottshafer","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"stateofhealth","roles":["author"]},{"site":"science","roles":["author"]},{"site":"forum","roles":["subscriber"]}],"headData":{"title":"Scott Shafer | KQED","description":"KQED Contributor","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a62ebae45b79d7aed1a39a0e3bf68104?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a62ebae45b79d7aed1a39a0e3bf68104?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/scottshafer"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"news","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"news_11973129":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11973129","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11973129","score":null,"sort":[1705791648000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"where-californias-5-major-senate-candidates-stand-on-the-economy-crime-and-the-border","title":"Where California's 5 Major Senate Candidates Stand on the Economy, Crime and the Border","publishDate":1705791648,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Where California’s 5 Major Senate Candidates Stand on the Economy, Crime and the Border | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The main contenders to become California’s new U.S. senator want voters to see them in a certain light:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Adam Schiff as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG32ejSiOvA\">defender\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.adamschiff.com/issue/defending-democracy/\">democracy\u003c/a>; Rep. Katie Porter as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4FQUQ7K2ac\">anti-corruption\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://katieporter.com/katie-porter-releases-plan-to-shake-up-the-senate-and-fight-corruption-in-washington/\">crusader\u003c/a>; Rep. Barbara Lee as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BarbaraLeeForCA/status/1722320229836136599\">courageous progressive\u003c/a>; Eric Early as a champion for the “\u003ca href=\"https://ericearly.com/\">forgotten Americans\u003c/a>”; and Steve Garvey as a commonsense \u003ca href=\"https://stevegarvey.com/steves-story/\">consensus builder\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their ads, slogans and speeches offer only a glimpse into who they are or what they have done — or plan to do — to tackle some of Californians’ most pressing concerns. All three Democrats have years of voting records while serving in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All but Early are set to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/04/politico-to-host-first-california-u-s-senate-debate-00133755\">debate for the first time in this race\u003c/a> on Monday evening. Ahead of the event, CalMatters sent each campaign a questionnaire and analyzed their records and stances on issues such as border, immigration, criminal justice, foreign policy, economy, labor and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a detailed look at where they stand on those issues — and how they differ from each other:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Border and immigration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The three Democrats share a similar track record on immigration and border security issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They all voted against Republican proposals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5283\">bar federally-funded housing to migrants\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR2%22%7D&s=1&r=1\">limit asylum eligibility\u003c/a> and condemn the use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5283\">public school facilities\u003c/a> to shelter migrants. They have all supported — or even co-sponsored — bills to provide a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1603\">pathway to citizenship\u003c/a> for undocumented immigrants and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6?s=4&r=2&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR6%22%7D\">their children\u003c/a>, establish \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2203?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR2203%22%7D&s=5&r=3\">independent oversight\u003c/a> on border security activities and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1333?s=6&r=2&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR1333%22%7D\">limit the president’s ability\u003c/a> to restrict undocumented immigrant entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11965014 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231019-LAPHONZA-BUTLER-Getty-CS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']All support expanding unemployment insurance benefits to undocumented immigrants seeking work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmpqWpPfvI\">November immigration forum\u003c/a>, all three Democrats criticized President Joe Biden’s policy that \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-urges-us-court-uphold-asylum-restrictions-2023-11-08/\">banned most migrants\u003c/a> from seeking asylum if they crossed the border illegally. Porter said the policy was “dishonoring this nation’s history and our future.” Schiff and Lee both called it “wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden — noting that previous congressional actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/bidens-border-wall-explained/\">tied his hands\u003c/a> — decided to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/biden-border-wall-waiver.html\">continue building former President Donald Trump’s Mexican border wall\u003c/a> in October, shocking some Democrats. The decision drew instant criticism from Lee, who urged the White House to reverse course in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1710414901540249693\">tweet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, Schiff and Porter all agreed a generic border wall is ineffective in response to CalMatters’ questionnaire this month. Schiff and Porter both advocated for increased use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2023/10/digital-technologies-borders-threat-people-move\">detection technologies\u003c/a> at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter, however, said some “site-specific” barriers do work, “for example, in dangerous areas where the lives of migrants and U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel are at risk when there are unauthorized crossings and search and rescue missions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three Democrats, Lee appears to be the most staunch critic of allocating more funds to federal border patrol agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Migrant tents beside a border wall with some people standing and seated between the tents.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants stay in a makeshift camp in Jacumba Hot Springs in San Diego on Nov. 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Lee voted against \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3401/actions\">authorizing a $4.6 billion humanitarian aid and security funding package\u003c/a> at the southern border, while Schiff and Porter voted in favor. The package — backed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/border-funding-immigration.html\">Republicans and moderate Democrats\u003c/a> — passed the House without the stronger protections in migrant facilities that \u003ca href=\"https://progressives.house.gov/press-releases?ID=3D035C49-48BA-4150-801C-9B341B375B28\">House progressives\u003c/a> had supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee called for a 50% budget cut for the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in statements to CalMatters. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security, she said, would be better spent on “meaningful immigration reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE is rotten to the core,” Lee said in response to the CalMatters questionnaire. She is the only Senate candidate to have voted against creating the agency in 2002 when Schiff — then in his first term — supported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told CalMatters she generally does not support additional funding for the agency but said she wants border patrol employees to “receive pay commensurate with their work” to help “recruit a workforce that can meet the needs of our border communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said Congress should provide aid to border communities and increase resources and personnel at ports of entry to help handle an influx of asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11968089 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110123nVoters-Registration-Tulare-ZS-CM-103-1020x680.jpg']The top two Republicans — Garvey and Early — both support the border wall, additional funding for border patrol agents and tightened restrictions on border entries. Both said the nation should prioritize immigration applications from people legally present in the United States, and both oppose offering undocumented immigrants unemployment benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early argued he supports a path to citizenship for “illegal immigrants who have enlisted in and participated honorably in our military.” Currently, non-citizens can only join the military if they are legal permanent residents, but a Democrats-backed bill in Congress would \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/2022/09/29/bill-would-allow-dreamers-to-join-the-military-become-citizens/\">allow undocumented DREAMers\u003c/a> to serve in the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/steve-garvey-us-senate-campaign/\">visited the Mexico border as one of his first campaign events\u003c/a> last month and said he wants to complete the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Crime and guns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On this topic, the Republican and Democratic candidates seem to share some common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have all stressed the need to invest in mental health services as well as policing to address crime, but the devil’s in the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three Democrats want more funding to reform policing methods. They all voted for \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022486\">de-escalation training\u003c/a> for police, more federal dollars for \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022453\">violence intervention\u003c/a> initiatives and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1280/cosponsors\">restricting police use of chokeholds\u003c/a> after George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey and Early’s campaigns called for more funding for police departments and law enforcement officers, as well as the need to secure the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11966619 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1554001709-1020x660.jpg']All three Democrats support boosting funding for mental health treatment programs. Lee — arguing poverty is the root cause of crime — believes raising the minimum wage, expanding access to health care and legalizing marijuana will address the “structural problems” that lead to criminal acts, her campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter’s campaign championed her \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8542\">Mental Health Justice Act\u003c/a> — a 2022 bill to give grants to governments to recruit and train mental health professionals to respond to emergency calls. Schiff and Lee both voted for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey’s campaign said he also supports funding to treat mental health problems and drug addiction, arguing they often contribute to gun violence and homelessness. Early, via a campaign spokesperson, advocated for a “rebuild” of the nation’s mental health system “that allows for the severely mentally ill to be permanently housed and cared for,” arguing that services were “decimated” in the 1960s — when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/06/535608442/architecture-of-an-asylum-tracks-history-of-u-s-treatment-of-mental-illness\">people were discharged from institutions\u003c/a> and placed in community-based care centers amid the civil rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A man seen from behind handling a gun among others mounted on a wall with a US flag partially visible to the right.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gunsmith Don Gregory shows off two new single-action firearms recently released by Juggernaut Tactical in Orange on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On gun policies, Garvey supports “common-sense measures” such as pre-sale background checks and an assault weapon ban — something mainly supported by Democrats, according to his campaign. “We can keep guns out of the hands of criminals while also protecting Second Amendment rights,” his campaign said in response to CalMatters’ questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates are otherwise split along party lines. For example, all three Democrats oppose the federal death penalty, while Republicans argue the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are nuanced differences, especially among Democrats. They all voted against legislation to permanently raise fentanyl-related drugs to the highest class of illegal substances — a GOP-led bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/biden-fentanyl-bill-call-congress-gop\">Biden urged Congress\u003c/a> to pass. Lee, however, was the only candidate to \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/represent/votes/116/house/2/32\">vote against\u003c/a> even temporarily doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff — a former prosecutor in Los Angeles — has the most controversial track record on criminal justice issues due to his \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2021/02/11/adam-schiff-california-attorney-general/\">past support for tough-on-crime policies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff was among 48 Democrats to support the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/115/actions?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22thin+blue+line+act+of+2017%22%7D\">Thin Blue Line Act\u003c/a> in 2017 to apply the federal death penalty to cop killers — something Early supports. Schiff has since \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1490369700601212928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1490369700601212928%7Ctwgr%5Ea73eb825c0723239ad58811751698dd9a6af64d5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fschiff.house.gov%2Fissues%2Fcriminal-justice-reform-and-public-safety\">publicly spoken against\u003c/a> the sentence. In his campaign response to CalMatters, Schiff credited his change of heart to “technological advancements” that revealed “deep flaws” with the death penalty and a “disproportionate application” of the sentence on people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101892849 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/04/Cond_Katie-Porter-photo-credit-David-Roth-1020x680.jpg']As a state senator, Schiff authored legislation to crack down on juveniles, including a bill to create year-long “boot camps” for teenagers \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/99-00/bill/sen/sb_1901-1950/sb_1937_bill_20000224_introduced.pdf\">found in possession of marijuana (PDF)\u003c/a> at school and another to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1293_bill_19970228_introduced.html\">try kids 14 years and older\u003c/a> as adults if they commit murder or rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress, he introduced legislation in \u003ca href=\"https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/schiff-introduces-bill-to-equalize-funding-for-prevention-and-suppression-of-crime\">2009\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1568\">increase funding\u003c/a> to a \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/community-policing-is-not-the-answer/\">controversial\u003c/a> program to place more cops in communities, supported language to exclude asylum seekers and immigrants from \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/bv8z7q/surveillance-hawks-sabotaged-a-vote-to-stop-the-fbi-from-collecting-your-internet-history\">privacy protections\u003c/a> and voted for the Protect and Serve Act in 2018 to impose stricter penalties on assaulting law enforcement officers, which most Democrats voted for. Lee voted against both measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff’s record irked criminal justice activists, who, in a 2021 letter, urged Gov. Gavin Newsom not to appoint Schiff as the next state attorney general. He has since softened some of his positions on criminal justice. In February 2023, he said his viewpoint had changed since the 1990s. “I’ve learned that some of the policies of the ’90s didn’t work,” he told \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/rep-adam-schiif-dianne-feinstein-replacement-2024-senate-race-california-senator/12822152/\">\u003cem>ABC7\u003c/em> last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Foreign policy and defense\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of a cease-fire in the Gaza war highlights a key split among the three Democratic hopefuls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/08/israel-california-senate-election-00120545\">called for a permanent cease-fire\u003c/a> from the stage of a Senate candidate debate — one of the first members of Congress to do so. Schiff called for “unequivocal support” for Israel, while Porter cautioned against Islamophobia and mourned the lives lost on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months afterward, as the casualty numbers rose in Gaza, Schiff and Porter both called for a “humanitarian pause” — aligning with the Biden administration’s policy. But as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/california-senate-democrats/\">calls for a permanent cease-fire\u003c/a> grew, Porter shifted her stance in a Dec. 18 statement, calling for a “\u003ca href=\"https://porter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=585\">lasting bilateral cease-fire\u003c/a>” that “brings remaining hostages home, secures Israel’s safety, removes Hamas from operational control of Gaza, and invests in creating a better economic and political architecture for Palestinians in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101893937 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/08/Barbara-Lee-Tom-Williams-via-Getty-Images-1020x612.jpg']When asked to explain why she shifted her stance, Porter’s campaign pointed to her Dec. 18 statement, in which she seemed to suggest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Palestinian governance of Gaza was the reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His remarks and actions necessitate tough conversations with our ally Israel about its long-term strategy and among U.S. policymakers about our approach in the Middle East,” she said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, however, has stood by his initial position, arguing that a permanent cease-fire would “perpetuate Hamas terrorist control of Gaza,” according to his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three Democrats signed on as co-sponsors of a largely symbolic \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/771/cosponsors\">bipartisan House resolution\u003c/a> affirming Israel’s right to defend itself. But Lee was the only candidate to vote against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340?s=3&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR340%22%7D\">Hamas International Financing Prevention Act\u003c/a> — a bipartisan bill that would sanction Hamas, its affiliates and governments providing aid to the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill was opposed by major humanitarian organizations because it is overly broad and will hurt a lot of innocent Palestinians by making it harder, if not impossible, to receive humanitarian assistance,” Lee spokesperson Sean Ryan told CalMatters in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973144\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062.jpg\" alt=\"A tank in the foreground with a hill and buildings in the background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Israeli tank rolling along the fence as damaged buildings are seen in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Decades before Gaza, Lee shocked the world by being the lone vote against the Afghanistan war after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a decision that got her death threats then but now hailed as a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BarbaraLeeForCA/status/1745489301570527613?s=20\">show of courage\u003c/a> by her supporters.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is still somewhat of a unicorn on foreign policy compared to her opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, Lee voted against authorizing the \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2002455\">use of military force in Iraq\u003c/a>, while Schiff voted in favor. Lee has since sponsored a resolution to repeal the authorization most years; it wasn’t until 2021 that the \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021172\">House passed it\u003c/a>, with Schiff and Porter both voting in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was also the \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-vote-withdraw-soldiers-syria-b2297596.html\">only candidate\u003c/a> to support a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-syria-troop-withdrawal-matt-gaetz-609353065981287eac3060c7eb6d9f09\">U.S. troop removal from Syria\u003c/a> in March 2023 — a measure most Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, voted against. Critics of the bill said a removal could give Islamic State terrorists time to reorganize, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-syria-troop-withdrawal-matt-gaetz-609353065981287eac3060c7eb6d9f09\">Associated Press\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11966928 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/F9A3259-1-scaled-1-1020x680.jpg']Additionally, Lee \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BarbaraLeeForCA/status/1733590439088029798?s=20\">touts herself\u003c/a> as the most consistent in calling for cutting the nation’s “bloated” defense budget. She had voted against authorizing defense and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6395?s=2&r=3&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR6395%22%7D\">military spending\u003c/a> when \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/represent/votes/117/house/2/350\">Schiff\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2500/actions\">Porter\u003c/a> voted in favor, voting records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff’s campaign said he wants to reduce the Pentagon’s budget by 10% and supports eliminating weapons systems the administration does not need or want. “There is far too much waste in the defense budget that must be eliminated,” his campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter’s campaign said the funding level needs to be indexed to national security threats, and there needs to be more oversight. “I’ll never rubber stamp spending, but I believe investing in our service members and their well-being is paramount,” the campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Republicans support increasing the defense budget. Neither Garvey nor Early supported a call for a cease-fire. They both argued Israel must have the ability to fight Hamas until it is destroyed, their campaigns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Economy and labor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although far lower than during the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation remains high, jumping from 3.1% to 3.4% in December. Experts attribute it to the rising cost of housing and project it’s unlikely to last given a housing market cool-down, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/inflation-rate-december-2023-falling-prices-impacting-consumers-rcna133050\">\u003cem>NBC\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican candidates blame the Biden administration. Garvey attributed it to “excessive government spending,” while Early criticized the reduction of domestic energy production — a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oil-fossil-fuels-climate-change-biden-df27160fc81f28d21fbf1fc5575b77bc\">GOP talking point\u003c/a> that conflicts with \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oil-fossil-fuels-climate-change-biden-df27160fc81f28d21fbf1fc5575b77bc\">record-high\u003c/a> U.S. oil production in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101894153 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/08/GettyImages-1077007728-1-1020x574.jpg']Democrats slam corporations instead. Porter — a self-proclaimed warrior taking on Wall Street interests — argued inflation worsened because businesses are overcharging customers, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136935160/corporations-are-booking-record-profits-is-it-thanks-to-price-gouging\">record-high profits\u003c/a> for big corporations. Similarly, Lee blamed corporate greed. Apart from corporate profit, Schiff pointed to the supply chain interruption during the pandemic and a lack of housing as contributing factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the three Democrats, Schiff — a past member of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition — has historically been the most skeptical of federal spending. In 2005, he demanded a \u003ca href=\"https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/saving-for-a-rainy-day\">“rainy-day” reserve\u003c/a> in the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff was the only Senate candidate to vote \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/2023/06/01/meet-the-house-members-who-voted-against-the-debt-limit-deal/\">to raise the debt ceiling\u003c/a> last year to avoid a default. Lee and Porter — along with 38 other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus — voted against it. Lee said she voted to stand up against “extreme MAGA Republicans holding our economy hostage,” and Porter — who has argued the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1662242502630416384\">debt ceiling should be abolished\u003c/a> — criticized the measure for including \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-01/debt-ceiling-vote-schiff-porter-lee-feinstein-senate\">“giveaways”\u003c/a> to the oil and gas industry, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-08/schiffs-bid-to-bolster-his-progressive-credentials-for-senate-race-hits-some-resistance\">applied to join\u003c/a> the Congressional Progressive Caucus last year but withdrew, voted multiple times against the “\u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll553.xml\">People’s Budget\u003c/a>,” which contains all the caucus’ priorities and has served as a purity test. Lee — the only other candidate in Congress at the time — voted in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is also the only candidate to sponsor the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6191?s=4&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Curtailing+Executive+Overcompensation%22%7D\">Curtail Executive Overcompensation Act\u003c/a>, a measure increasing taxes on corporate CEOs. Lee and Porter are both sponsoring the Oligarch Act, another measure aimed at taxing the rich, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4919?s=1&r=74\">while Schiff is not\u003c/a>. Schiff has, however, expressed support for \u003ca href=\"https://schiff.house.gov/issues/workers-and-economic-inequality#:~:text=He%20supports%20every%20effort%20to,relying%20on%20tax%20havens%20abroad.\">repealing tax cuts for the wealthy\u003c/a> made under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two construction workers on a construction site, one of them looking toward the camera.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers on site of a tiny homes village in Goshen on June 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All three Democrats have gained union endorsements, although Schiff has won the most from statewide unions. All the Democrats support the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842\">Protecting the Right to Organize Act\u003c/a> to override all state right-to-work laws and strengthen union protections. Garvey and Early both said that the decision belongs to states, not the federal government, according to their campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five candidates also split along party lines on whether striking workers should be eligible for unemployment benefits — a controversial bill \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/10/california-unemployment-benefits-strikers/\">vetoed by Gov. Newsom\u003c/a> last year. All three Democrats said those workers deserve the benefits. Early outright said no, while Garvey’s campaign told CalMatters that governments should stay out of disputes between unions and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three Democrats believe the federal minimum wage — $7.25 per hour — should increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11967845 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5455-1020x765.jpg']Lee called for a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/10/california-labor-butler/\">$50 hourly minimum wage\u003c/a> during a forum last year, noting that’s the living wage one working adult with two children would have to make, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/06\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003c/a> estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter’s campaign said she supports a $20 federal minimum wage and $25 for California, indexed to inflation. Schiff’s campaign said he supports a $20 federal minimum wage indexed to inflation, with a boost to $25 for health care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early believes the federal rate does not need to change and that an increase would worsen inflation, according to his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey, on the other hand, did not give a specific number. “Each state and its voters have the ability to raise their minimum wage, as California has multiple times, beyond the federal minimum wage,” his campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homelessness and housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/12/california-homelessness-housing/\">worsening homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, Republican candidates said mental health problems are the main culprit — not the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early, in his campaign’s response to CalMatters’ questions, said the cause of the state’s homelessness is “severe mental illness” and “soft-on-crime” policies, referring to Proposition 47 — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/01/california-crime-prop47/\">a ballot measure passed in 2014\u003c/a> that reduced penalties for certain thefts and drug offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest factor is \u003cem>manifestly not\u003c/em> insufficient low-income housing,” the campaign’s statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey’s campaign said the biggest driving factors of the problem are “drug and alcohol addiction” and “mental health issues.” During a Wednesday visit to a Sacramento homeless encampment, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/steve-garvey-homelessness-us-senate\">he said he wants a “deep dive”\u003c/a> into how taxpayer dollars are spent to battle the homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973147\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy.jpg\" alt=\"An unhoused person sitting beside a fence with a hoodie pulled over the head and belongings around.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person sits in a makeshift tent along a barbed wire fence near Highway 99 in southwest Fresno on Feb. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the Democratic candidates all argued that a lack of affordable housing drives the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homelessness problem is a “direct result” of \u003ca href=\"https://katieporter.com/issues/washington-created-our-housing-homelessness-crisis-they-should-fix-it/\">failed federal housing policies\u003c/a> over the past decades, Porter argues on her website. Her campaign said she supports a “major investment” in housing, including a fully-funded federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8\">Section 8\u003c/a> program and an expansion of the national Low Income Housing Tax Credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s campaign said homelessness is a housing issue “at its core.” Like Porter, she also called for a fully-funded Section 8 program and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2023/09/05/federal-rent-control-laws-debate/70666376007/\">national rent control standard\u003c/a> — one that the Biden administration has pushed for. She believes expanding health care access, offering free college and raising the minimum wage would help ease homelessness in the state, her campaign said. She also touted legislation she introduced to help renters, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-introduces-bill-to-improve-low-income-renters-access-to-housing/#:~:text=introduced%20the%20Delivering%20Essential%20Protection,Barbara%20Lee%20(D%2DCalif.\">DEPOSIT Act\u003c/a>, which would allow federal programs to cover security deposit and moving expenses for those using the \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/deposit-act-introduced-cover-renters-security-deposit-and-moving-costs\">Housing Choice vouchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11946670 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33369_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_04-qut-1020x680.jpg']Similarly, Schiff’s campaign said he also supports expanding Section 8 vouchers and providing wraparound services. Additionally, his campaign stressed the importance of easing regulations and offering tax incentives to encourage the build-out of affordable housing — something Garvey and Early also support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Schiff’s campaign website, he touted legislation he introduced and supported to fight homelessness, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5176?s=1&r=3\">Affordable and Homeless Housing Incentive Act\u003c/a>, which would offer tax incentives for homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if they support more federal funding to combat the crisis, only Early’s campaign said no. Garvey’s campaign said funding for housing should prioritize projects in “low-income areas, and near job and transit centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/25/adam-schiff-earmarks-00117716\">Schiff\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/news/press-releases/congresswoman-barbara-lee-secures-more-than-10m-to-support-health-affordable-housing-coastal-resiliency-and-more-in-east-bay-communities\"> Lee\u003c/a> have both touted their success in securing earmarked funds for housing and homelessness. Porter, however, is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/23/what-u-s-senate-candidate-katie-porters-opposition-to-earmarks-would-mean-if-elected/\">staunch opponent of earmark requests\u003c/a>, arguing that the funding goes to lawmakers’ “pet projects” and requests should be rejected. She has \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/last-years-letter.pdf\">signed onto letters (PDF)\u003c/a> instead, urging her colleagues to approve grants to homelessness assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 5 major contenders have different track records and proposals on some of the biggest issues facing California as they try to appeal to sizable voting blocs before the March 5 primary.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705792273,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":79,"wordCount":3809},"headData":{"title":"Where California's 5 Major Senate Candidates Stand on the Economy, Crime and the Border | KQED","description":"The 5 major contenders have different track records and proposals on some of the biggest issues facing California as they try to appeal to sizable voting blocs before the March 5 primary.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/yue-yu/\">Yue Stella Yu\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11973129/where-californias-5-major-senate-candidates-stand-on-the-economy-crime-and-the-border","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The main contenders to become California’s new U.S. senator want voters to see them in a certain light:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Adam Schiff as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG32ejSiOvA\">defender\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.adamschiff.com/issue/defending-democracy/\">democracy\u003c/a>; Rep. Katie Porter as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4FQUQ7K2ac\">anti-corruption\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://katieporter.com/katie-porter-releases-plan-to-shake-up-the-senate-and-fight-corruption-in-washington/\">crusader\u003c/a>; Rep. Barbara Lee as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BarbaraLeeForCA/status/1722320229836136599\">courageous progressive\u003c/a>; Eric Early as a champion for the “\u003ca href=\"https://ericearly.com/\">forgotten Americans\u003c/a>”; and Steve Garvey as a commonsense \u003ca href=\"https://stevegarvey.com/steves-story/\">consensus builder\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their ads, slogans and speeches offer only a glimpse into who they are or what they have done — or plan to do — to tackle some of Californians’ most pressing concerns. All three Democrats have years of voting records while serving in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All but Early are set to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/04/politico-to-host-first-california-u-s-senate-debate-00133755\">debate for the first time in this race\u003c/a> on Monday evening. Ahead of the event, CalMatters sent each campaign a questionnaire and analyzed their records and stances on issues such as border, immigration, criminal justice, foreign policy, economy, labor and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a detailed look at where they stand on those issues — and how they differ from each other:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Border and immigration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The three Democrats share a similar track record on immigration and border security issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They all voted against Republican proposals to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5283\">bar federally-funded housing to migrants\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR2%22%7D&s=1&r=1\">limit asylum eligibility\u003c/a> and condemn the use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5283\">public school facilities\u003c/a> to shelter migrants. They have all supported — or even co-sponsored — bills to provide a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1603\">pathway to citizenship\u003c/a> for undocumented immigrants and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6?s=4&r=2&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR6%22%7D\">their children\u003c/a>, establish \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2203?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR2203%22%7D&s=5&r=3\">independent oversight\u003c/a> on border security activities and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1333?s=6&r=2&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR1333%22%7D\">limit the president’s ability\u003c/a> to restrict undocumented immigrant entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11965014","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231019-LAPHONZA-BUTLER-Getty-CS-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>All support expanding unemployment insurance benefits to undocumented immigrants seeking work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmpqWpPfvI\">November immigration forum\u003c/a>, all three Democrats criticized President Joe Biden’s policy that \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-urges-us-court-uphold-asylum-restrictions-2023-11-08/\">banned most migrants\u003c/a> from seeking asylum if they crossed the border illegally. Porter said the policy was “dishonoring this nation’s history and our future.” Schiff and Lee both called it “wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden — noting that previous congressional actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/bidens-border-wall-explained/\">tied his hands\u003c/a> — decided to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/biden-border-wall-waiver.html\">continue building former President Donald Trump’s Mexican border wall\u003c/a> in October, shocking some Democrats. The decision drew instant criticism from Lee, who urged the White House to reverse course in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1710414901540249693\">tweet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, Schiff and Porter all agreed a generic border wall is ineffective in response to CalMatters’ questionnaire this month. Schiff and Porter both advocated for increased use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2023/10/digital-technologies-borders-threat-people-move\">detection technologies\u003c/a> at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter, however, said some “site-specific” barriers do work, “for example, in dangerous areas where the lives of migrants and U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel are at risk when there are unauthorized crossings and search and rescue missions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three Democrats, Lee appears to be the most staunch critic of allocating more funds to federal border patrol agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Migrant tents beside a border wall with some people standing and seated between the tents.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/111823_Migrants-Jacumba_AH_CM_10-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants stay in a makeshift camp in Jacumba Hot Springs in San Diego on Nov. 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Lee voted against \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3401/actions\">authorizing a $4.6 billion humanitarian aid and security funding package\u003c/a> at the southern border, while Schiff and Porter voted in favor. The package — backed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/border-funding-immigration.html\">Republicans and moderate Democrats\u003c/a> — passed the House without the stronger protections in migrant facilities that \u003ca href=\"https://progressives.house.gov/press-releases?ID=3D035C49-48BA-4150-801C-9B341B375B28\">House progressives\u003c/a> had supported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee called for a 50% budget cut for the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in statements to CalMatters. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security, she said, would be better spent on “meaningful immigration reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE is rotten to the core,” Lee said in response to the CalMatters questionnaire. She is the only Senate candidate to have voted against creating the agency in 2002 when Schiff — then in his first term — supported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter told CalMatters she generally does not support additional funding for the agency but said she wants border patrol employees to “receive pay commensurate with their work” to help “recruit a workforce that can meet the needs of our border communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff said Congress should provide aid to border communities and increase resources and personnel at ports of entry to help handle an influx of asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11968089","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/110123nVoters-Registration-Tulare-ZS-CM-103-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The top two Republicans — Garvey and Early — both support the border wall, additional funding for border patrol agents and tightened restrictions on border entries. Both said the nation should prioritize immigration applications from people legally present in the United States, and both oppose offering undocumented immigrants unemployment benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early argued he supports a path to citizenship for “illegal immigrants who have enlisted in and participated honorably in our military.” Currently, non-citizens can only join the military if they are legal permanent residents, but a Democrats-backed bill in Congress would \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/2022/09/29/bill-would-allow-dreamers-to-join-the-military-become-citizens/\">allow undocumented DREAMers\u003c/a> to serve in the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/steve-garvey-us-senate-campaign/\">visited the Mexico border as one of his first campaign events\u003c/a> last month and said he wants to complete the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Crime and guns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On this topic, the Republican and Democratic candidates seem to share some common ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have all stressed the need to invest in mental health services as well as policing to address crime, but the devil’s in the details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three Democrats want more funding to reform policing methods. They all voted for \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022486\">de-escalation training\u003c/a> for police, more federal dollars for \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022453\">violence intervention\u003c/a> initiatives and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1280/cosponsors\">restricting police use of chokeholds\u003c/a> after George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey and Early’s campaigns called for more funding for police departments and law enforcement officers, as well as the need to secure the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11966619","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1554001709-1020x660.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>All three Democrats support boosting funding for mental health treatment programs. Lee — arguing poverty is the root cause of crime — believes raising the minimum wage, expanding access to health care and legalizing marijuana will address the “structural problems” that lead to criminal acts, her campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter’s campaign championed her \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8542\">Mental Health Justice Act\u003c/a> — a 2022 bill to give grants to governments to recruit and train mental health professionals to respond to emergency calls. Schiff and Lee both voted for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey’s campaign said he also supports funding to treat mental health problems and drug addiction, arguing they often contribute to gun violence and homelessness. Early, via a campaign spokesperson, advocated for a “rebuild” of the nation’s mental health system “that allows for the severely mentally ill to be permanently housed and cared for,” arguing that services were “decimated” in the 1960s — when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/06/535608442/architecture-of-an-asylum-tracks-history-of-u-s-treatment-of-mental-illness\">people were discharged from institutions\u003c/a> and placed in community-based care centers amid the civil rights movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A man seen from behind handling a gun among others mounted on a wall with a US flag partially visible to the right.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/011624-OC-Gun-Manufacturers-AJ-CM-28-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gunsmith Don Gregory shows off two new single-action firearms recently released by Juggernaut Tactical in Orange on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Alisha Jucevic/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On gun policies, Garvey supports “common-sense measures” such as pre-sale background checks and an assault weapon ban — something mainly supported by Democrats, according to his campaign. “We can keep guns out of the hands of criminals while also protecting Second Amendment rights,” his campaign said in response to CalMatters’ questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates are otherwise split along party lines. For example, all three Democrats oppose the federal death penalty, while Republicans argue the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are nuanced differences, especially among Democrats. They all voted against legislation to permanently raise fentanyl-related drugs to the highest class of illegal substances — a GOP-led bill \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/biden-fentanyl-bill-call-congress-gop\">Biden urged Congress\u003c/a> to pass. Lee, however, was the only candidate to \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/represent/votes/116/house/2/32\">vote against\u003c/a> even temporarily doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff — a former prosecutor in Los Angeles — has the most controversial track record on criminal justice issues due to his \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2021/02/11/adam-schiff-california-attorney-general/\">past support for tough-on-crime policies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff was among 48 Democrats to support the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/115/actions?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22thin+blue+line+act+of+2017%22%7D\">Thin Blue Line Act\u003c/a> in 2017 to apply the federal death penalty to cop killers — something Early supports. Schiff has since \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1490369700601212928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1490369700601212928%7Ctwgr%5Ea73eb825c0723239ad58811751698dd9a6af64d5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fschiff.house.gov%2Fissues%2Fcriminal-justice-reform-and-public-safety\">publicly spoken against\u003c/a> the sentence. In his campaign response to CalMatters, Schiff credited his change of heart to “technological advancements” that revealed “deep flaws” with the death penalty and a “disproportionate application” of the sentence on people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101892849","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/04/Cond_Katie-Porter-photo-credit-David-Roth-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As a state senator, Schiff authored legislation to crack down on juveniles, including a bill to create year-long “boot camps” for teenagers \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/99-00/bill/sen/sb_1901-1950/sb_1937_bill_20000224_introduced.pdf\">found in possession of marijuana (PDF)\u003c/a> at school and another to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_1293_bill_19970228_introduced.html\">try kids 14 years and older\u003c/a> as adults if they commit murder or rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress, he introduced legislation in \u003ca href=\"https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/schiff-introduces-bill-to-equalize-funding-for-prevention-and-suppression-of-crime\">2009\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1568\">increase funding\u003c/a> to a \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/community-policing-is-not-the-answer/\">controversial\u003c/a> program to place more cops in communities, supported language to exclude asylum seekers and immigrants from \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/bv8z7q/surveillance-hawks-sabotaged-a-vote-to-stop-the-fbi-from-collecting-your-internet-history\">privacy protections\u003c/a> and voted for the Protect and Serve Act in 2018 to impose stricter penalties on assaulting law enforcement officers, which most Democrats voted for. Lee voted against both measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff’s record irked criminal justice activists, who, in a 2021 letter, urged Gov. Gavin Newsom not to appoint Schiff as the next state attorney general. He has since softened some of his positions on criminal justice. In February 2023, he said his viewpoint had changed since the 1990s. “I’ve learned that some of the policies of the ’90s didn’t work,” he told \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/rep-adam-schiif-dianne-feinstein-replacement-2024-senate-race-california-senator/12822152/\">\u003cem>ABC7\u003c/em> last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Foreign policy and defense\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of a cease-fire in the Gaza war highlights a key split among the three Democratic hopefuls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/08/israel-california-senate-election-00120545\">called for a permanent cease-fire\u003c/a> from the stage of a Senate candidate debate — one of the first members of Congress to do so. Schiff called for “unequivocal support” for Israel, while Porter cautioned against Islamophobia and mourned the lives lost on both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months afterward, as the casualty numbers rose in Gaza, Schiff and Porter both called for a “humanitarian pause” — aligning with the Biden administration’s policy. But as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/11/california-senate-democrats/\">calls for a permanent cease-fire\u003c/a> grew, Porter shifted her stance in a Dec. 18 statement, calling for a “\u003ca href=\"https://porter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=585\">lasting bilateral cease-fire\u003c/a>” that “brings remaining hostages home, secures Israel’s safety, removes Hamas from operational control of Gaza, and invests in creating a better economic and political architecture for Palestinians in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101893937","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/08/Barbara-Lee-Tom-Williams-via-Getty-Images-1020x612.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When asked to explain why she shifted her stance, Porter’s campaign pointed to her Dec. 18 statement, in which she seemed to suggest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Palestinian governance of Gaza was the reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His remarks and actions necessitate tough conversations with our ally Israel about its long-term strategy and among U.S. policymakers about our approach in the Middle East,” she said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, however, has stood by his initial position, arguing that a permanent cease-fire would “perpetuate Hamas terrorist control of Gaza,” according to his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three Democrats signed on as co-sponsors of a largely symbolic \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/771/cosponsors\">bipartisan House resolution\u003c/a> affirming Israel’s right to defend itself. But Lee was the only candidate to vote against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/340?s=3&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR340%22%7D\">Hamas International Financing Prevention Act\u003c/a> — a bipartisan bill that would sanction Hamas, its affiliates and governments providing aid to the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill was opposed by major humanitarian organizations because it is overly broad and will hurt a lot of innocent Palestinians by making it harder, if not impossible, to receive humanitarian assistance,” Lee spokesperson Sean Ryan told CalMatters in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973144\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973144\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062.jpg\" alt=\"A tank in the foreground with a hill and buildings in the background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1936875062-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Israeli tank rolling along the fence as damaged buildings are seen in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Decades before Gaza, Lee shocked the world by being the lone vote against the Afghanistan war after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a decision that got her death threats then but now hailed as a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BarbaraLeeForCA/status/1745489301570527613?s=20\">show of courage\u003c/a> by her supporters.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is still somewhat of a unicorn on foreign policy compared to her opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, Lee voted against authorizing the \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2002455\">use of military force in Iraq\u003c/a>, while Schiff voted in favor. Lee has since sponsored a resolution to repeal the authorization most years; it wasn’t until 2021 that the \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021172\">House passed it\u003c/a>, with Schiff and Porter both voting in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was also the \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-vote-withdraw-soldiers-syria-b2297596.html\">only candidate\u003c/a> to support a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-syria-troop-withdrawal-matt-gaetz-609353065981287eac3060c7eb6d9f09\">U.S. troop removal from Syria\u003c/a> in March 2023 — a measure most Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, voted against. Critics of the bill said a removal could give Islamic State terrorists time to reorganize, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/congress-syria-troop-withdrawal-matt-gaetz-609353065981287eac3060c7eb6d9f09\">Associated Press\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11966928","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/F9A3259-1-scaled-1-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Additionally, Lee \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/BarbaraLeeForCA/status/1733590439088029798?s=20\">touts herself\u003c/a> as the most consistent in calling for cutting the nation’s “bloated” defense budget. She had voted against authorizing defense and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6395?s=2&r=3&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22HR6395%22%7D\">military spending\u003c/a> when \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/represent/votes/117/house/2/350\">Schiff\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2500/actions\">Porter\u003c/a> voted in favor, voting records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff’s campaign said he wants to reduce the Pentagon’s budget by 10% and supports eliminating weapons systems the administration does not need or want. “There is far too much waste in the defense budget that must be eliminated,” his campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter’s campaign said the funding level needs to be indexed to national security threats, and there needs to be more oversight. “I’ll never rubber stamp spending, but I believe investing in our service members and their well-being is paramount,” the campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Republicans support increasing the defense budget. Neither Garvey nor Early supported a call for a cease-fire. They both argued Israel must have the ability to fight Hamas until it is destroyed, their campaigns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Economy and labor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Although far lower than during the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation remains high, jumping from 3.1% to 3.4% in December. Experts attribute it to the rising cost of housing and project it’s unlikely to last given a housing market cool-down, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/inflation-rate-december-2023-falling-prices-impacting-consumers-rcna133050\">\u003cem>NBC\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican candidates blame the Biden administration. Garvey attributed it to “excessive government spending,” while Early criticized the reduction of domestic energy production — a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oil-fossil-fuels-climate-change-biden-df27160fc81f28d21fbf1fc5575b77bc\">GOP talking point\u003c/a> that conflicts with \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/oil-fossil-fuels-climate-change-biden-df27160fc81f28d21fbf1fc5575b77bc\">record-high\u003c/a> U.S. oil production in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101894153","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/08/GettyImages-1077007728-1-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Democrats slam corporations instead. Porter — a self-proclaimed warrior taking on Wall Street interests — argued inflation worsened because businesses are overcharging customers, pointing to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136935160/corporations-are-booking-record-profits-is-it-thanks-to-price-gouging\">record-high profits\u003c/a> for big corporations. Similarly, Lee blamed corporate greed. Apart from corporate profit, Schiff pointed to the supply chain interruption during the pandemic and a lack of housing as contributing factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the three Democrats, Schiff — a past member of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition — has historically been the most skeptical of federal spending. In 2005, he demanded a \u003ca href=\"https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/saving-for-a-rainy-day\">“rainy-day” reserve\u003c/a> in the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff was the only Senate candidate to vote \u003ca href=\"https://rollcall.com/2023/06/01/meet-the-house-members-who-voted-against-the-debt-limit-deal/\">to raise the debt ceiling\u003c/a> last year to avoid a default. Lee and Porter — along with 38 other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus — voted against it. Lee said she voted to stand up against “extreme MAGA Republicans holding our economy hostage,” and Porter — who has argued the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1662242502630416384\">debt ceiling should be abolished\u003c/a> — criticized the measure for including \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-01/debt-ceiling-vote-schiff-porter-lee-feinstein-senate\">“giveaways”\u003c/a> to the oil and gas industry, the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-08/schiffs-bid-to-bolster-his-progressive-credentials-for-senate-race-hits-some-resistance\">applied to join\u003c/a> the Congressional Progressive Caucus last year but withdrew, voted multiple times against the “\u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll553.xml\">People’s Budget\u003c/a>,” which contains all the caucus’ priorities and has served as a purity test. Lee — the only other candidate in Congress at the time — voted in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is also the only candidate to sponsor the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6191?s=4&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Curtailing+Executive+Overcompensation%22%7D\">Curtail Executive Overcompensation Act\u003c/a>, a measure increasing taxes on corporate CEOs. Lee and Porter are both sponsoring the Oligarch Act, another measure aimed at taxing the rich, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4919?s=1&r=74\">while Schiff is not\u003c/a>. Schiff has, however, expressed support for \u003ca href=\"https://schiff.house.gov/issues/workers-and-economic-inequality#:~:text=He%20supports%20every%20effort%20to,relying%20on%20tax%20havens%20abroad.\">repealing tax cuts for the wealthy\u003c/a> made under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two construction workers on a construction site, one of them looking toward the camera.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/060223-Homeless-Village-Goshen-LV_17-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers on site of a tiny homes village in Goshen on June 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All three Democrats have gained union endorsements, although Schiff has won the most from statewide unions. All the Democrats support the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842\">Protecting the Right to Organize Act\u003c/a> to override all state right-to-work laws and strengthen union protections. Garvey and Early both said that the decision belongs to states, not the federal government, according to their campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five candidates also split along party lines on whether striking workers should be eligible for unemployment benefits — a controversial bill \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/10/california-unemployment-benefits-strikers/\">vetoed by Gov. Newsom\u003c/a> last year. All three Democrats said those workers deserve the benefits. Early outright said no, while Garvey’s campaign told CalMatters that governments should stay out of disputes between unions and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three Democrats believe the federal minimum wage — $7.25 per hour — should increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11967845","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_5455-1020x765.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lee called for a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/10/california-labor-butler/\">$50 hourly minimum wage\u003c/a> during a forum last year, noting that’s the living wage one working adult with two children would have to make, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/06\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003c/a> estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter’s campaign said she supports a $20 federal minimum wage and $25 for California, indexed to inflation. Schiff’s campaign said he supports a $20 federal minimum wage indexed to inflation, with a boost to $25 for health care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early believes the federal rate does not need to change and that an increase would worsen inflation, according to his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey, on the other hand, did not give a specific number. “Each state and its voters have the ability to raise their minimum wage, as California has multiple times, beyond the federal minimum wage,” his campaign said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homelessness and housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/12/california-homelessness-housing/\">worsening homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, Republican candidates said mental health problems are the main culprit — not the lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early, in his campaign’s response to CalMatters’ questions, said the cause of the state’s homelessness is “severe mental illness” and “soft-on-crime” policies, referring to Proposition 47 — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/01/california-crime-prop47/\">a ballot measure passed in 2014\u003c/a> that reduced penalties for certain thefts and drug offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest factor is \u003cem>manifestly not\u003c/em> insufficient low-income housing,” the campaign’s statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garvey’s campaign said the biggest driving factors of the problem are “drug and alcohol addiction” and “mental health issues.” During a Wednesday visit to a Sacramento homeless encampment, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/steve-garvey-homelessness-us-senate\">he said he wants a “deep dive”\u003c/a> into how taxpayer dollars are spent to battle the homelessness crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973147\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy.jpg\" alt=\"An unhoused person sitting beside a fence with a hoodie pulled over the head and belongings around.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/021122-Fresno-Homeless-LV-CM-24-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person sits in a makeshift tent along a barbed wire fence near Highway 99 in southwest Fresno on Feb. 11, 2022. \u003ccite>(Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the Democratic candidates all argued that a lack of affordable housing drives the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homelessness problem is a “direct result” of \u003ca href=\"https://katieporter.com/issues/washington-created-our-housing-homelessness-crisis-they-should-fix-it/\">failed federal housing policies\u003c/a> over the past decades, Porter argues on her website. Her campaign said she supports a “major investment” in housing, including a fully-funded federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8\">Section 8\u003c/a> program and an expansion of the national Low Income Housing Tax Credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s campaign said homelessness is a housing issue “at its core.” Like Porter, she also called for a fully-funded Section 8 program and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2023/09/05/federal-rent-control-laws-debate/70666376007/\">national rent control standard\u003c/a> — one that the Biden administration has pushed for. She believes expanding health care access, offering free college and raising the minimum wage would help ease homelessness in the state, her campaign said. She also touted legislation she introduced to help renters, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-introduces-bill-to-improve-low-income-renters-access-to-housing/#:~:text=introduced%20the%20Delivering%20Essential%20Protection,Barbara%20Lee%20(D%2DCalif.\">DEPOSIT Act\u003c/a>, which would allow federal programs to cover security deposit and moving expenses for those using the \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/deposit-act-introduced-cover-renters-security-deposit-and-moving-costs\">Housing Choice vouchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11946670","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33369_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_04-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Similarly, Schiff’s campaign said he also supports expanding Section 8 vouchers and providing wraparound services. Additionally, his campaign stressed the importance of easing regulations and offering tax incentives to encourage the build-out of affordable housing — something Garvey and Early also support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Schiff’s campaign website, he touted legislation he introduced and supported to fight homelessness, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5176?s=1&r=3\">Affordable and Homeless Housing Incentive Act\u003c/a>, which would offer tax incentives for homeless shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if they support more federal funding to combat the crisis, only Early’s campaign said no. Garvey’s campaign said funding for housing should prioritize projects in “low-income areas, and near job and transit centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/25/adam-schiff-earmarks-00117716\">Schiff\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/news/press-releases/congresswoman-barbara-lee-secures-more-than-10m-to-support-health-affordable-housing-coastal-resiliency-and-more-in-east-bay-communities\"> Lee\u003c/a> have both touted their success in securing earmarked funds for housing and homelessness. Porter, however, is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/23/what-u-s-senate-candidate-katie-porters-opposition-to-earmarks-would-mean-if-elected/\">staunch opponent of earmark requests\u003c/a>, arguing that the funding goes to lawmakers’ “pet projects” and requests should be rejected. She has \u003ca href=\"https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/last-years-letter.pdf\">signed onto letters (PDF)\u003c/a> instead, urging her colleagues to approve grants to homelessness assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11973129/where-californias-5-major-senate-candidates-stand-on-the-economy-crime-and-the-border","authors":["byline_news_11973129"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_23401","news_27626","news_17628"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11973134","label":"news_18481"},"news_11962877":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11962877","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11962877","score":null,"sort":[1696014628000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-does-feinsteins-death-mean-for-senate-control-and-the-looming-government-shutdown","title":"What Does Feinstein's Death Mean for Senate Control — and the Looming Government Shutdown?","publishDate":1696014628,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What Does Feinstein’s Death Mean for Senate Control — and the Looming Government Shutdown? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>U.S. Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">Dianne Feinstein’s death\u003c/a> creates a vacancy in the Senate at a time when her Democrats hold the slightest majority in the chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, a centrist Democrat who had represented California since 1992, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dianne-feinstein-medical-bills-senate-health-trust-42cdcaa61134f2597458d54a62e2437c\">had medical struggles in recent months\u003c/a> that already prompted questions about whether she’d resign and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957755/sen-dianne-feinstein-back-home-from-hospital-after-falling\">who might replace her\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/feinstein-replacement-newsom-democrat-death-528b55aa50d06aa3901b16c129aa3fe0\">is expected to pick a replacement soon\u003c/a>. An election to pick the state’s next senator serving a full six-year term is scheduled for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at what Feinstein’s death means for the Senate at a critical time on Capitol Hill:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How does it impact control of the Senate?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Feinstein’s death, Democrats held a 51–49 majority. They had control of 48 seats, plus three independent members who generally vote with Democrats. Until her seat is filled, Democrats will be at least one vote short of a majority as they try to advance their priorities. There are no major votes currently looming in the Senate that are expected to fall totally along party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will Feinstein’s seat be filled?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom, a Democrat, has the power to appoint a replacement for the rest of Feinstein’s term, which ends in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race to replace her in the fall 2024 election is already underway, with a primary scheduled for March. Reps. Katie Porter (Irvine) , Adam Schiff (Burbank), and Barbara Lee (Oakland) are among the top Democrats vying for the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is expected to select a Democrat to fill the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will her seat be vacant?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not immediately clear how quickly Newsom will move to pick a replacement. No timeline is set forth in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When then-Sen. Kamala Harris left her seat after being elected vice president in 2020, it went vacant for about two weeks until Newsom appointed then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who will replace Feinstein?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ departure from the Senate left Black women without any representation in the chamber. Newsom was under dual pressures to name either a Black woman or a Latino person to replace her, and he chose Padilla, who became California’s first Latino U.S. senator. After that, Newsom said that if Feinstein’s seat became vacant, he’d appoint a Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who is seen as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, will face pressure to make good on his promise. He has already said he does not plan to select one of the Democratic candidates currently running for Feinstein’s seat, including Lee, who is a Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom may choose merely a caretaker to hold the seat as a short-term replacement until someone is elected in November 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who is Black, shied away from directly answering a question Friday about whether she would consider serving as a replacement if Newsom chose her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom could also appoint himself, though that is seen as unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is there any impact on the looming government shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The biggest issue Congress is currently facing is the near-certain shutdown. Unlike in the bitterly divided House of Representatives, there has so far been overwhelming bipartisan support for Senate spending bills so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if Newsom doesn’t appoint a replacement quickly, Senate Democrats could have a more difficult time winning enough votes as they try to keep the government open over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unlikely that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican caucus in the Senate will suddenly side with House Republicans pushing for a shutdown, but if that were to happen, it could make it tougher for Democrats, with their razor-thin majority, to bring in the votes they need to stave off a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein's death creates a vacancy in the Senate at a time when her Democrats hold the slightest majority in the chamber, and as Congress braces for a likely government shutdown. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1696014628,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":664},"headData":{"title":"What Does Feinstein's Death Mean for Senate Control — and the Looming Government Shutdown? | KQED","description":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein's death creates a vacancy in the Senate at a time when her Democrats hold the slightest majority in the chamber, and as Congress braces for a likely government shutdown. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"Michelle L. Price\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11962877/what-does-feinsteins-death-mean-for-senate-control-and-the-looming-government-shutdown","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90\">Dianne Feinstein’s death\u003c/a> creates a vacancy in the Senate at a time when her Democrats hold the slightest majority in the chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, a centrist Democrat who had represented California since 1992, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dianne-feinstein-medical-bills-senate-health-trust-42cdcaa61134f2597458d54a62e2437c\">had medical struggles in recent months\u003c/a> that already prompted questions about whether she’d resign and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957755/sen-dianne-feinstein-back-home-from-hospital-after-falling\">who might replace her\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/feinstein-replacement-newsom-democrat-death-528b55aa50d06aa3901b16c129aa3fe0\">is expected to pick a replacement soon\u003c/a>. An election to pick the state’s next senator serving a full six-year term is scheduled for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at what Feinstein’s death means for the Senate at a critical time on Capitol Hill:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How does it impact control of the Senate?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Feinstein’s death, Democrats held a 51–49 majority. They had control of 48 seats, plus three independent members who generally vote with Democrats. Until her seat is filled, Democrats will be at least one vote short of a majority as they try to advance their priorities. There are no major votes currently looming in the Senate that are expected to fall totally along party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will Feinstein’s seat be filled?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom, a Democrat, has the power to appoint a replacement for the rest of Feinstein’s term, which ends in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race to replace her in the fall 2024 election is already underway, with a primary scheduled for March. Reps. Katie Porter (Irvine) , Adam Schiff (Burbank), and Barbara Lee (Oakland) are among the top Democrats vying for the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Newsom is expected to select a Democrat to fill the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long will her seat be vacant?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not immediately clear how quickly Newsom will move to pick a replacement. No timeline is set forth in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When then-Sen. Kamala Harris left her seat after being elected vice president in 2020, it went vacant for about two weeks until Newsom appointed then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who will replace Feinstein?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Harris’ departure from the Senate left Black women without any representation in the chamber. Newsom was under dual pressures to name either a Black woman or a Latino person to replace her, and he chose Padilla, who became California’s first Latino U.S. senator. After that, Newsom said that if Feinstein’s seat became vacant, he’d appoint a Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who is seen as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, will face pressure to make good on his promise. He has already said he does not plan to select one of the Democratic candidates currently running for Feinstein’s seat, including Lee, who is a Black woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom may choose merely a caretaker to hold the seat as a short-term replacement until someone is elected in November 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who is Black, shied away from directly answering a question Friday about whether she would consider serving as a replacement if Newsom chose her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom could also appoint himself, though that is seen as unlikely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is there any impact on the looming government shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The biggest issue Congress is currently facing is the near-certain shutdown. Unlike in the bitterly divided House of Representatives, there has so far been overwhelming bipartisan support for Senate spending bills so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, if Newsom doesn’t appoint a replacement quickly, Senate Democrats could have a more difficult time winning enough votes as they try to keep the government open over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unlikely that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican caucus in the Senate will suddenly side with House Republicans pushing for a shutdown, but if that were to happen, it could make it tougher for Democrats, with their razor-thin majority, to bring in the votes they need to stave off a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11962877/what-does-feinsteins-death-mean-for-senate-control-and-the-looming-government-shutdown","authors":["byline_news_11962877"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_274","news_16","news_17628"],"featImg":"news_11962881","label":"news"},"news_11946670":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11946670","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11946670","score":null,"sort":[1695993950000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90","title":"Senator Dianne Feinstein Dies at Age 90","publishDate":1695993950,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Senator Dianne Feinstein Dies at Age 90 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Follow live ongoing coverage: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies\">Senator Dianne Feinstein dies at 90: Live Updates\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein, a champion of gun control who broke glass ceilings for women in local, state and national politics, died Thursday night, KQED has confirmed. She was 90 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, Senator Feinstein passed away last night at her home in Washington, D.C.,” Feinstein’s chief of staff James Sauls wrote in a statement Friday. “Her passing is a great loss for so many, from those who loved and cared for her to the people of California that she dedicated her life to serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 1992 on a wave of support for female candidates nationwide known as the “Year of the Woman” and went on to become the longest serving U.S. Senator in California history. But her rise in politics began in 1978 when the city was jolted by two assassinations at City Hall. As president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, it was left to Feinstein to announce the stunning news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing before a crowd of reporters outside the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978 — long before news traveled around the world instantaneously — Feinstein’s announcement was delivered with both anguish and self-control, an image that would define her political reputation as a strong leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg 683w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein bows her head for a moment of silence in memory of slain Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, just before the supervisors meeting on the day of the killings, Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk have been shot and killed,” she said as cries of shock and dismay rang out. “The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes earlier, Feinstein found Milk’s body down the hall from her office. It was a day seared into her memory. “I remember leaning over his body. … this is San Francisco, how can this be? How can this be? But it was,” Feinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701374/i-get-things-done-dianne-feinstein-on-her-history-political-style-and-the-future-of-compromise-in-the-senate\">recounted to KQED in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Mayor George Moscone’s death, Feinstein became mayor — a job she held for nearly a decade, first as acting mayor before being elected twice to full four-year terms. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — a longtime political ally of hers — said Feinstein’s handling of the assassinations crisis cemented her reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a dramatic demonstration of how, in the face of total and complete disaster, somebody could stand up to settle the ship,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s really a healer,” said Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman in 2023 after Feinstein announced her retirement from the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wunderman, who worked for Feinstein at City Hall when she was mayor, said “she first and foremost sees the opportunities to be able to bring people together in very difficult situations to solve extremely challenging problems. And she doesn’t shy away from it. You know, she kind of runs at the problem rather than running away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit dress speaks at a press conference.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) looks on at a news conference on gun control at the US Capitol June 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Feinstein governed from the center — winning support from business groups, law enforcement unions and the city’s more moderate-to-conservative voters. In a 2001 interview with C-SPAN, Feinstein attributed her political philosophy to her upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was a Democrat. My father was a Goldwater Republican. So we had a split family. It made for some very interesting dinner conversations,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Goldman was born in San Francisco in 1933, the oldest of three girls. Her father Leon Goldman was a surgeon and her mother, Betty, was a Russian immigrant who worked as a model. She did not have a particularly happy childhood. Years later Feinstein recounted how her mother would fly into fits of alcohol-fueled rage.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dianne Feinstein\"]‘You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth.’[/pullquote]Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955 after studying political science. She eloped with her first husband, attorney Jack Berman, but they soon divorced. The two had a daughter, Katherine, who took the name of Feinstein’s second husband Bert Feinstein, who died of cancer in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s first foray into elected office came in 1969 when she ran a successful campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. By then she had established policy credentials as a member of state and local boards focused on criminal justice issues. In a crowded field of candidates, Feinstein finished first and became the first woman to be president of the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein tried to parlay that early success into higher office, running for mayor of San Francisco in 1971. She came in third. In 1973 she once again became president of the board of supervisors after topping the field. Two years later she waged a second campaign for mayor, but once again finished a disappointing third in an election that was eventually won by State Senator George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, just hours before the City Hall assassinations, Feinstein mentioned that she was thinking of leaving politics altogether. The murders changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Feinstein focused largely on the nuts and bolts of running a city. She took a hands-on interest in the workings of local government, regularly showing up at major fires and monitoring police radio calls. When the city’s renowned but aging cable cars were faced with extinction, Feinstein successfully rallied the business community to raise funds to refurbish them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then the AIDS epidemic was ravaging her city. The federal government under President Ronald Reagan mostly ignored it. As a young physician at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Paul Volberding often briefed Mayor Feinstein on what was needed to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t recall any moment in the early epidemic when I was told, ‘No, we can’t do that because we don’t have the resources.’ And that really goes to her leadership and a great credit to her,” said Volberding, who has since retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention. Feinstein landed on the cover of \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em>, making the short list to become presidential nominee Walter Mondale’s running mate, a position that ultimately went to Geraldine Ferraro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204.jpg\" alt='A white woman speaks to supporters at a convention with signs around her that read \"Dianne\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, addresses the Democratic National Convention. She would be elected to the Senate in November of 1992. \u003ccite>(Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1990, after leaving the mayor’s office, Feinstein ran for governor. She won the Democratic primary but lost narrowly in November to Republican U.S. Senator Pete Wilson. But a year later, the political climate changed with the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When law professor Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexual misconduct when they worked together, the Judiciary Committee questioned Hill’s integrity and motivation, as did Democratic Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a scorned woman? Do you have a militant attitude relative to the area of civil rights?” Heflin said in one of many out-of-touch comments by senators that infuriated women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein used those widely criticized hearings as a springboard to the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people took a look at that all-male Judiciary Committee and frankly felt they badly botched the job,” Feinstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigning for the Senate in San Diego in 1992, Feinstein championed legislation to codify a woman’s right to an abortion into federal law.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11941047,news_11941247,news_11942511\"]“The Congress must pass it and the president must sign it. And if he vetoes it, we must override that veto,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein rode the moment to victory, part of a wave that tripled the number of women in the U.S. Senate from two to six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, she championed gun control, overcoming stiff odds to pass a federal ban on assault weapons in 1994. Later that year she almost lost reelection to a self-funded millionaire, Michael Huffington, a Republican member of Congress from Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., Feinstein developed a reputation as a workhorse, someone who did her homework and wasn’t afraid to rock the boat. She sponsored the Desert Protection Act, which successfully protected 9.6 million acres of open space in California, creating among other things the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her career Feinstein had to deal with men who underestimated and talked down to her. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence in 2013, Feinstein chastised Texas Senator Ted Cruz who belittled her understanding of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a sixth grader. Senator, I’ve been on this committee for 20 years. I was a mayor for nine years. I walked in. I saw people shot. I’ve looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, over objections from the Obama administration, she took to the Senate floor to release a comprehensive report on torture by the CIA following the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit opens her arms to embrace an African American man in a blue suit on a runway.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Barack Obama is greeted by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) upon arriving at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, on Nov. 25, 2013. \u003ccite>(JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society,” Feinstein said on the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 500-page summary report by the Senate Intelligence Committee Feinstein chaired revealed in stark detail CIA mistreatment of prisoners, things like waterboarding and sleep deprivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Blanton, who heads the National Security Archive at George Washington University, says the investigation Feinstein directed made the intelligence community accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Senate torture report was probably the high point of Senator Feinstein’s entire Senate career,” Blanton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman smiles while surrounded by journalists holding microphones to her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with reporters after sharing a report on the CIA and its torture methods, Dec. 9, 2014. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite that leadership, Feinstein was often regarded as too conservative, especially for the Democratic Party, especially in California. And the election of Donald Trump in 2016 put Feinstein’s brand of bipartisanship even further out of step within her own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer of 2017 Trump’s pattern of lies and racist comments was well established. During an onstage interview at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, when Feinstein was asked about how Democrats should deal with Trump, her response triggered audible gasps in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, this man is going to be president most likely for the rest of this term. I just hope he has the ability to learn. And if he does, he can be a good president. And that’s my hope,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her comments prompted critics to say that Feinstein was hopelessly out of touch with her state, which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with a pink blazer jacket and red scarf seated in front of a microphone with a middle aged in a shirt and tie standing but bent over beside her saying something into a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) during recordings at the KQED studios for tapings of KQED Newsroom and Political Breakdown on Oct. 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democrats who hoped Feinstein would step aside for a new generation of candidates were disappointed — even angry — when she sought and won another six-year term in 2018 at the age of 85. During her final term in office it was clear to many that Feinstein was not fully up to the task of representing 40 million Californians in the U.S. Media reports detailed concern among her colleagues that Feinstein, who was once a formidable presence in Washington, was losing her short-term memory and her effectiveness as a Senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, a serious bout of shingles forced Feinstein to miss nearly a hundred votes while she recovered at home in San Francisco. When she returned to Washington three months later, she appeared even more frail with lingering side effects from shingles that limited her ability to work. Feinstein might have hoped her return to work would silence calls for her to resign, but her obviously diminished state only fueled concerns that she was unable to do the job. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former aide Jim Lazarus believes her reasons for staying in office, rather than enjoying retirement, were intensely personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think she could see what else to do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. She felt well enough and alert enough and strong enough to serve,” Lazarus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2001 interview with CSPAN, Feinstein compared herself to the city’s symbol of resilience — the phoenix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947240\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a blue dress suit seen from the right profile, waist up.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaves the Senate Chamber following a vote in the US Capitol on Feb. 14, 2023 in Washington, DC, the day Feinstein announced that she will not seek reelection in 2024. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s most enduring legacy may be that she opened more doors for women in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malia Cohen, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors before becoming State Controller in 2022, remembers meeting Feinstein at City Hall on a third grade field trip, where Feinstein told her class one of \u003cem>them\u003c/em> could be mayor one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that I’m standing on her shoulders. And I wouldn’t be here without her leadership,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some Democrats felt Feinstein was too moderate and stayed in office too long, she’ll also be remembered as a woman who led her city through moments of extraordinary grief and crises, and became an effective champion for important national issues in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A champion of gun control and a trailblazer for women in federal politics, Dianne Feinstein served as senator representing California since 1992. Her death comes after a series of health crises that called Feinstein's ability to carry out her duties into question, with some members of the Democratic Party having called for her to step down.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1696039292,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":53,"wordCount":2454},"headData":{"title":"Senator Dianne Feinstein Dies at Age 90 | KQED","description":"A champion of gun control and a trailblazer for women in federal politics, Dianne Feinstein served as senator representing California since 1992. Her death comes after a series of health crises that called Feinstein's ability to carry out her duties into question, with some members of the Democratic Party having called for her to step down.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Follow live ongoing coverage: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/liveblog/dianne-feinstein-dies\">Senator Dianne Feinstein dies at 90: Live Updates\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein, a champion of gun control who broke glass ceilings for women in local, state and national politics, died Thursday night, KQED has confirmed. She was 90 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, Senator Feinstein passed away last night at her home in Washington, D.C.,” Feinstein’s chief of staff James Sauls wrote in a statement Friday. “Her passing is a great loss for so many, from those who loved and cared for her to the people of California that she dedicated her life to serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 1992 on a wave of support for female candidates nationwide known as the “Year of the Woman” and went on to become the longest serving U.S. Senator in California history. But her rise in politics began in 1978 when the city was jolted by two assassinations at City Hall. As president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, it was left to Feinstein to announce the stunning news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing before a crowd of reporters outside the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978 — long before news traveled around the world instantaneously — Feinstein’s announcement was delivered with both anguish and self-control, an image that would define her political reputation as a strong leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 683px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404.jpg 683w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1298948404-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein bows her head for a moment of silence in memory of slain Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, just before the supervisors meeting on the day of the killings, Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Jerry Telfer/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk have been shot and killed,” she said as cries of shock and dismay rang out. “The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes earlier, Feinstein found Milk’s body down the hall from her office. It was a day seared into her memory. “I remember leaning over his body. … this is San Francisco, how can this be? How can this be? But it was,” Feinstein \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701374/i-get-things-done-dianne-feinstein-on-her-history-political-style-and-the-future-of-compromise-in-the-senate\">recounted to KQED in 2018.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon Mayor George Moscone’s death, Feinstein became mayor — a job she held for nearly a decade, first as acting mayor before being elected twice to full four-year terms. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — a longtime political ally of hers — said Feinstein’s handling of the assassinations crisis cemented her reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a dramatic demonstration of how, in the face of total and complete disaster, somebody could stand up to settle the ship,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s really a healer,” said Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman in 2023 after Feinstein announced her retirement from the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wunderman, who worked for Feinstein at City Hall when she was mayor, said “she first and foremost sees the opportunities to be able to bring people together in very difficult situations to solve extremely challenging problems. And she doesn’t shy away from it. You know, she kind of runs at the problem rather than running away from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946782\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946782\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit dress speaks at a press conference.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-800x566.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/GettyImages-541891634-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) looks on at a news conference on gun control at the US Capitol June 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Feinstein governed from the center — winning support from business groups, law enforcement unions and the city’s more moderate-to-conservative voters. In a 2001 interview with C-SPAN, Feinstein attributed her political philosophy to her upbringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother was a Democrat. My father was a Goldwater Republican. So we had a split family. It made for some very interesting dinner conversations,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Goldman was born in San Francisco in 1933, the oldest of three girls. Her father Leon Goldman was a surgeon and her mother, Betty, was a Russian immigrant who worked as a model. She did not have a particularly happy childhood. Years later Feinstein recounted how her mother would fly into fits of alcohol-fueled rage.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Dianne Feinstein","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Feinstein graduated from Stanford University in 1955 after studying political science. She eloped with her first husband, attorney Jack Berman, but they soon divorced. The two had a daughter, Katherine, who took the name of Feinstein’s second husband Bert Feinstein, who died of cancer in 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s first foray into elected office came in 1969 when she ran a successful campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. By then she had established policy credentials as a member of state and local boards focused on criminal justice issues. In a crowded field of candidates, Feinstein finished first and became the first woman to be president of the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein tried to parlay that early success into higher office, running for mayor of San Francisco in 1971. She came in third. In 1973 she once again became president of the board of supervisors after topping the field. Two years later she waged a second campaign for mayor, but once again finished a disappointing third in an election that was eventually won by State Senator George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, just hours before the City Hall assassinations, Feinstein mentioned that she was thinking of leaving politics altogether. The murders changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Feinstein focused largely on the nuts and bolts of running a city. She took a hands-on interest in the workings of local government, regularly showing up at major fires and monitoring police radio calls. When the city’s renowned but aging cable cars were faced with extinction, Feinstein successfully rallied the business community to raise funds to refurbish them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By then the AIDS epidemic was ravaging her city. The federal government under President Ronald Reagan mostly ignored it. As a young physician at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Paul Volberding often briefed Mayor Feinstein on what was needed to fight the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t recall any moment in the early epidemic when I was told, ‘No, we can’t do that because we don’t have the resources.’ And that really goes to her leadership and a great credit to her,” said Volberding, who has since retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1984, San Francisco hosted the Democratic National Convention. Feinstein landed on the cover of \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em>, making the short list to become presidential nominee Walter Mondale’s running mate, a position that ultimately went to Geraldine Ferraro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204.jpg\" alt='A white woman speaks to supporters at a convention with signs around her that read \"Dianne\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-800x546.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-1020x696.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-526599204-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianne Feinstein, then mayor of San Francisco, addresses the Democratic National Convention. She would be elected to the Senate in November of 1992. \u003ccite>(Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1990, after leaving the mayor’s office, Feinstein ran for governor. She won the Democratic primary but lost narrowly in November to Republican U.S. Senator Pete Wilson. But a year later, the political climate changed with the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When law professor Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexual misconduct when they worked together, the Judiciary Committee questioned Hill’s integrity and motivation, as did Democratic Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a scorned woman? Do you have a militant attitude relative to the area of civil rights?” Heflin said in one of many out-of-touch comments by senators that infuriated women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein used those widely criticized hearings as a springboard to the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people took a look at that all-male Judiciary Committee and frankly felt they badly botched the job,” Feinstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigning for the Senate in San Diego in 1992, Feinstein championed legislation to codify a woman’s right to an abortion into federal law.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11941047,news_11941247,news_11942511"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The Congress must pass it and the president must sign it. And if he vetoes it, we must override that veto,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein rode the moment to victory, part of a wave that tripled the number of women in the U.S. Senate from two to six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, she championed gun control, overcoming stiff odds to pass a federal ban on assault weapons in 1994. Later that year she almost lost reelection to a self-funded millionaire, Michael Huffington, a Republican member of Congress from Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, D.C., Feinstein developed a reputation as a workhorse, someone who did her homework and wasn’t afraid to rock the boat. She sponsored the Desert Protection Act, which successfully protected 9.6 million acres of open space in California, creating among other things the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her career Feinstein had to deal with men who underestimated and talked down to her. In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence in 2013, Feinstein chastised Texas Senator Ted Cruz who belittled her understanding of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a sixth grader. Senator, I’ve been on this committee for 20 years. I was a mayor for nine years. I walked in. I saw people shot. I’ve looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, over objections from the Obama administration, she took to the Senate floor to release a comprehensive report on torture by the CIA following the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman in a red suit opens her arms to embrace an African American man in a blue suit on a runway.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-451932837-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US President Barack Obama is greeted by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) upon arriving at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, on Nov. 25, 2013. \u003ccite>(JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society,” Feinstein said on the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 500-page summary report by the Senate Intelligence Committee Feinstein chaired revealed in stark detail CIA mistreatment of prisoners, things like waterboarding and sleep deprivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Blanton, who heads the National Security Archive at George Washington University, says the investigation Feinstein directed made the intelligence community accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the Senate torture report was probably the high point of Senator Feinstein’s entire Senate career,” Blanton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman smiles while surrounded by journalists holding microphones to her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-460203282-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with reporters after sharing a report on the CIA and its torture methods, Dec. 9, 2014. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite that leadership, Feinstein was often regarded as too conservative, especially for the Democratic Party, especially in California. And the election of Donald Trump in 2016 put Feinstein’s brand of bipartisanship even further out of step within her own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the summer of 2017 Trump’s pattern of lies and racist comments was well established. During an onstage interview at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, when Feinstein was asked about how Democrats should deal with Trump, her response triggered audible gasps in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, this man is going to be president most likely for the rest of this term. I just hope he has the ability to learn. And if he does, he can be a good president. And that’s my hope,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her comments prompted critics to say that Feinstein was hopelessly out of touch with her state, which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947243\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947243\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman with a pink blazer jacket and red scarf seated in front of a microphone with a middle aged in a shirt and tie standing but bent over beside her saying something into a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS33382_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_17-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) during recordings at the KQED studios for tapings of KQED Newsroom and Political Breakdown on Oct. 23, 2018. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democrats who hoped Feinstein would step aside for a new generation of candidates were disappointed — even angry — when she sought and won another six-year term in 2018 at the age of 85. During her final term in office it was clear to many that Feinstein was not fully up to the task of representing 40 million Californians in the U.S. Media reports detailed concern among her colleagues that Feinstein, who was once a formidable presence in Washington, was losing her short-term memory and her effectiveness as a Senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, a serious bout of shingles forced Feinstein to miss nearly a hundred votes while she recovered at home in San Francisco. When she returned to Washington three months later, she appeared even more frail with lingering side effects from shingles that limited her ability to work. Feinstein might have hoped her return to work would silence calls for her to resign, but her obviously diminished state only fueled concerns that she was unable to do the job. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former aide Jim Lazarus believes her reasons for staying in office, rather than enjoying retirement, were intensely personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don’t think she could see what else to do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. She felt well enough and alert enough and strong enough to serve,” Lazarus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2001 interview with CSPAN, Feinstein compared herself to the city’s symbol of resilience — the phoenix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to rise from your own ashes. You have to learn in the process. And you have to really care. Really care that the government serves the people. That the government is honest. And I really believe that to my depth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947240\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a blue dress suit seen from the right profile, waist up.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2050/12/gettyimages-1466074311_720-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) leaves the Senate Chamber following a vote in the US Capitol on Feb. 14, 2023 in Washington, DC, the day Feinstein announced that she will not seek reelection in 2024. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s most enduring legacy may be that she opened more doors for women in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malia Cohen, who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors before becoming State Controller in 2022, remembers meeting Feinstein at City Hall on a third grade field trip, where Feinstein told her class one of \u003cem>them\u003c/em> could be mayor one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that I’m standing on her shoulders. And I wouldn’t be here without her leadership,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some Democrats felt Feinstein was too moderate and stayed in office too long, she’ll also be remembered as a woman who led her city through moments of extraordinary grief and crises, and became an effective champion for important national issues in the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11946670/dianne-feinstein-californias-longest-serving-us-senator-dies-at-age-90","authors":["255"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_274","news_27626","news_38","news_24071","news_17628"],"featImg":"news_11947244","label":"news"},"news_11946976":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11946976","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11946976","score":null,"sort":[1681771537000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pressure-mounts-on-feinstein-to-return-to-dc-as-democrats-scramble-to-confirm-federal-judges","title":"Pressure Mounts on Feinstein to Return to DC, as Democrats Scramble to Confirm Federal Judges","publishDate":1681771537,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Pressure Mounts on Feinstein to Return to DC, as Democrats Scramble to Confirm Federal Judges | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In 1993, shortly after becoming California’s first female senator, Dianne Feinstein joined the embattled Senate Judiciary Committee, breaking its all-male stronghold. She went on to become the top-ranking Democrat on the panel — the first woman to assume that role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, three decades later, it’s her \u003cem>absence\u003c/em> from that key committee that is making headlines and causing headaches for her fellow Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 89-year-old senator from San Francisco has been out of work since she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dianne-feinstein-shingles-hospitalized/\">diagnosed with a case of shingles\u003c/a> in late February. Her prolonged recovery has prevented her from returning to the Senate, where her vote is essential to advancing President Biden’s judicial nominees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.acslaw.org/judicial-nominations/\">currently 36 pending judicial nominees\u003c/a>, according to the American Constitution Society. Of those, 12 — including four from California — must first be voted on in the Judiciary Committee before receiving a final confirmation vote in the Senate. Feinstein’s absence makes that more difficult, if not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein reportedly spoke to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday and assured him she’d return to work soon, but her office hasn’t indicated exactly when she’ll be strong enough to fly back to Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Feinstein’s D.C. office has also lost several key members, including her chief of staff, David Grannis, who left to become executive director of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before her departure in February, Feinstein, who is California’s longest-serving senator, announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941047/sen-dianne-feinstein-wont-seek-reelection-ending-groundbreaking-political-career\">she would not run for reelection\u003c/a> next year, but plans to remain in office through the end of her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, amid mounting pressure for her to return, Feinstein asked Schumer to appoint another Democrat to temporarily replace her on the committee. Ordinarily that would be fairly routine, but apparently it’s not in this case, where a key Democratic goal of confirming more judges hangs in the balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Senate is very arcane in terms of its procedures,” said Carl Tobias, professor at the University of Richmond School of Law. “And it turns out that one senator can block that type of request unless you have 60 votes for cloture (a process for ending debate) to pass a resolution that allows something like that replacement to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias says the issue could also be resolved if a Republican member of the committee were to vote in favor of the judicial nominees, which would break any deadlock in Feinstein’s absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they’re not controversial,” Tobias said of the dozen nominees now awaiting a committee vote. “There weren’t any problems with them from the Republican side I think even in committee, when they had the hearings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible yes vote, Tobias notes, could come from South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the ranking Republican on the committee, whom Tobias calls “an institutionalist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he was saying nice things about Sen. Feinstein and has a good relationship with her,” Tobias said. “And so it could all work out well without dragging on for a long time yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"dianne-feinstein\"]But at least two Republican senators on the committee — Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee — have said they would not join a unanimous consent vote, which would be the fastest way to replace Feinstein on the committee. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who also was recently in the hospital — for a concussion — and just returned to the Senate Monday after more than a month’s absence, has not yet indicated whether he will cooperate with Schumer’s request to replace Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among California’s Democratic congressional delegation, only Ro Khanna, from Fremont, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946577/feinsteins-prolonged-absence-frustrates-senate-democrats\">publicly called on Feinstein to retire\u003c/a>. “Because Sen. Feinstein has been absent since February, I said enough is enough,” Khanna said last week. “We’ve got to tell the truth that Sen. Feinstein simply hasn’t been doing her job. And that’s why I called on her to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other high-profile Democrats, including House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, have stood by her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to me. I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Sen. Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi said last week, suggesting some degree of sexism was at play. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand also pushed back on those calling for Feinstein’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a team player, and she’s an extraordinary member of the Senate. It’s her right,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/04/16/kirsten-gillibrand-dianne-feinstein-resignation-calls-sotu-tapper-vpx.cnn\">Gillibrand told CNN on Sunday\u003c/a>. “She’s been voted by her state to be senator for six years. She has the right, in my opinion, to decide when she steps down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 89-year-old senator's prolonged recovery from shingles has prevented her from returning to the Senate, where her vote is essential for advancing President Biden’s judicial nominees.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1681772032,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":864},"headData":{"title":"Pressure Mounts on Feinstein to Return to DC, as Democrats Scramble to Confirm Federal Judges | KQED","description":"The 89-year-old senator's prolonged recovery from shingles has prevented her from returning to the Senate, where her vote is essential for advancing President Biden’s judicial nominees.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11946976/pressure-mounts-on-feinstein-to-return-to-dc-as-democrats-scramble-to-confirm-federal-judges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1993, shortly after becoming California’s first female senator, Dianne Feinstein joined the embattled Senate Judiciary Committee, breaking its all-male stronghold. She went on to become the top-ranking Democrat on the panel — the first woman to assume that role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, three decades later, it’s her \u003cem>absence\u003c/em> from that key committee that is making headlines and causing headaches for her fellow Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 89-year-old senator from San Francisco has been out of work since she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dianne-feinstein-shingles-hospitalized/\">diagnosed with a case of shingles\u003c/a> in late February. Her prolonged recovery has prevented her from returning to the Senate, where her vote is essential to advancing President Biden’s judicial nominees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.acslaw.org/judicial-nominations/\">currently 36 pending judicial nominees\u003c/a>, according to the American Constitution Society. Of those, 12 — including four from California — must first be voted on in the Judiciary Committee before receiving a final confirmation vote in the Senate. Feinstein’s absence makes that more difficult, if not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein reportedly spoke to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday and assured him she’d return to work soon, but her office hasn’t indicated exactly when she’ll be strong enough to fly back to Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, Feinstein’s D.C. office has also lost several key members, including her chief of staff, David Grannis, who left to become executive director of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before her departure in February, Feinstein, who is California’s longest-serving senator, announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11941047/sen-dianne-feinstein-wont-seek-reelection-ending-groundbreaking-political-career\">she would not run for reelection\u003c/a> next year, but plans to remain in office through the end of her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, amid mounting pressure for her to return, Feinstein asked Schumer to appoint another Democrat to temporarily replace her on the committee. Ordinarily that would be fairly routine, but apparently it’s not in this case, where a key Democratic goal of confirming more judges hangs in the balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Senate is very arcane in terms of its procedures,” said Carl Tobias, professor at the University of Richmond School of Law. “And it turns out that one senator can block that type of request unless you have 60 votes for cloture (a process for ending debate) to pass a resolution that allows something like that replacement to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobias says the issue could also be resolved if a Republican member of the committee were to vote in favor of the judicial nominees, which would break any deadlock in Feinstein’s absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And they’re not controversial,” Tobias said of the dozen nominees now awaiting a committee vote. “There weren’t any problems with them from the Republican side I think even in committee, when they had the hearings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible yes vote, Tobias notes, could come from South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the ranking Republican on the committee, whom Tobias calls “an institutionalist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he was saying nice things about Sen. Feinstein and has a good relationship with her,” Tobias said. “And so it could all work out well without dragging on for a long time yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"dianne-feinstein"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But at least two Republican senators on the committee — Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee — have said they would not join a unanimous consent vote, which would be the fastest way to replace Feinstein on the committee. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who also was recently in the hospital — for a concussion — and just returned to the Senate Monday after more than a month’s absence, has not yet indicated whether he will cooperate with Schumer’s request to replace Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among California’s Democratic congressional delegation, only Ro Khanna, from Fremont, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946577/feinsteins-prolonged-absence-frustrates-senate-democrats\">publicly called on Feinstein to retire\u003c/a>. “Because Sen. Feinstein has been absent since February, I said enough is enough,” Khanna said last week. “We’ve got to tell the truth that Sen. Feinstein simply hasn’t been doing her job. And that’s why I called on her to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other high-profile Democrats, including House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, have stood by her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting to me. I don’t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Sen. Feinstein in that way,” Pelosi said last week, suggesting some degree of sexism was at play. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand also pushed back on those calling for Feinstein’s resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a team player, and she’s an extraordinary member of the Senate. It’s her right,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/04/16/kirsten-gillibrand-dianne-feinstein-resignation-calls-sotu-tapper-vpx.cnn\">Gillibrand told CNN on Sunday\u003c/a>. “She’s been voted by her state to be senator for six years. She has the right, in my opinion, to decide when she steps down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11946976/pressure-mounts-on-feinstein-to-return-to-dc-as-democrats-scramble-to-confirm-federal-judges","authors":["255"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_274","news_27626","news_17968","news_6238","news_21246","news_17628"],"featImg":"news_11946988","label":"news"},"news_11946788":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11946788","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11946788","score":null,"sort":[1681524715000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rep-barbara-lee-says-shed-accept-senate-seat-appointment-if-newsom-chooses-her","title":"Rep. Barbara Lee Says She'd Accept Senate Seat Appointment, if Newsom Chose Her","publishDate":1681524715,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Rep. Barbara Lee Says She’d Accept Senate Seat Appointment, if Newsom Chose Her | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946577/feinsteins-prolonged-absence-frustrates-senate-democrats\">calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign her Senate seat growing\u003c/a>, East Bay U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) told KQED today that she would accept an appointment to the job, if Gov. Gavin Newsom offered it to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein is at home in San Francisco recovering from shingles, but her absence from the Judiciary Committee, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, means her party is unable to vote on dozens of President Biden’s judicial nominees and send them to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really hoping and praying that Senator Feinstein has a speedy and full recovery,” Lee said. “And the concern right now for me personally is about her health.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11941420,news_11946577\"]In 2021, Newsom said that if Feinstein’s seat opened up before the end of her term in 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-13/gov-gavin-newson-sen-dianne-feinstein-promise-to-appoint-a-black-woman\">he would appoint a Black woman\u003c/a> to fill the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressed on whether she would accept such an appointment if it were offered, Lee said, “I’m running for it and I certainly want to win in a race, so certainly. But what I’m saying to you is that’s premature. We’re hoping for a speedy recovery for Senator Feinstein. And I’m continuing to run in this election to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have suggested that with the Senate race underway, it would be unfair to the other candidates — and possibly voters who support them — for Newsom to pick Lee over Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Katie Porter (D-Irvine), and that selecting a Black woman as a caretaker who would not herself run for the job makes more sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about that, Lee simply reiterated that “I’m focusing on getting endorsements. I’m focusing on raising money and I’m focusing on winning this race.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland)\"]‘I’m focusing on getting endorsements. I’m focusing on raising money and I’m focusing on winning this race.’[/pullquote] In her campaign for Feinstein’s seat, Lee is making the absence of any Black women in the U.S. Senate a cornerstone of her message to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s campaign against better-known and better-financed Democrats, Schiff and Porter, is something of an uphill battle. According to campaign finance filings, Schiff raised $6.5 million in the first quarter of the year, while Porter raised $4.5 million, to just $1.5 million for Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Lee were to accept an appointment from the governor, it would allow her to run for election as a sitting U.S. senator, giving her chances a considerable boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week Feinstein said she is asking Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily name another Democrat to the Judiciary Committee until she is able to return to work. However, that might be easier said than done, as it would require cooperation from at least some Senate Republicans, who would be under pressure not to help Democrats confirm judges whom the vast majority of Republicans oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, who had announced her run for Senate on Feb. 21, told KQED she would 'certainly' accept it, but added that it was premature and that Sen. Feinstein's health was foremost on her mind.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1681751753,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":544},"headData":{"title":"Rep. Barbara Lee Says She'd Accept Senate Seat Appointment, if Newsom Chose Her | KQED","description":"Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, who had announced her run for Senate on Feb. 21, told KQED she would 'certainly' accept it, but added that it was premature and that Sen. Feinstein's health was foremost on her mind.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11946788/rep-barbara-lee-says-shed-accept-senate-seat-appointment-if-newsom-chooses-her","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946577/feinsteins-prolonged-absence-frustrates-senate-democrats\">calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign her Senate seat growing\u003c/a>, East Bay U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) told KQED today that she would accept an appointment to the job, if Gov. Gavin Newsom offered it to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein is at home in San Francisco recovering from shingles, but her absence from the Judiciary Committee, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, means her party is unable to vote on dozens of President Biden’s judicial nominees and send them to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really hoping and praying that Senator Feinstein has a speedy and full recovery,” Lee said. “And the concern right now for me personally is about her health.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11941420,news_11946577"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2021, Newsom said that if Feinstein’s seat opened up before the end of her term in 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-13/gov-gavin-newson-sen-dianne-feinstein-promise-to-appoint-a-black-woman\">he would appoint a Black woman\u003c/a> to fill the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressed on whether she would accept such an appointment if it were offered, Lee said, “I’m running for it and I certainly want to win in a race, so certainly. But what I’m saying to you is that’s premature. We’re hoping for a speedy recovery for Senator Feinstein. And I’m continuing to run in this election to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have suggested that with the Senate race underway, it would be unfair to the other candidates — and possibly voters who support them — for Newsom to pick Lee over Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Katie Porter (D-Irvine), and that selecting a Black woman as a caretaker who would not herself run for the job makes more sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about that, Lee simply reiterated that “I’m focusing on getting endorsements. I’m focusing on raising money and I’m focusing on winning this race.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I’m focusing on getting endorsements. I’m focusing on raising money and I’m focusing on winning this race.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> In her campaign for Feinstein’s seat, Lee is making the absence of any Black women in the U.S. Senate a cornerstone of her message to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s campaign against better-known and better-financed Democrats, Schiff and Porter, is something of an uphill battle. According to campaign finance filings, Schiff raised $6.5 million in the first quarter of the year, while Porter raised $4.5 million, to just $1.5 million for Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Lee were to accept an appointment from the governor, it would allow her to run for election as a sitting U.S. senator, giving her chances a considerable boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week Feinstein said she is asking Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to temporarily name another Democrat to the Judiciary Committee until she is able to return to work. However, that might be easier said than done, as it would require cooperation from at least some Senate Republicans, who would be under pressure not to help Democrats confirm judges whom the vast majority of Republicans oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11946788/rep-barbara-lee-says-shed-accept-senate-seat-appointment-if-newsom-chooses-her","authors":["255"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_22185","news_18538","news_274","news_27626","news_17628"],"featImg":"news_11946789","label":"news"},"news_11941420":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11941420","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11941420","score":null,"sort":[1676990453000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-congresswoman-barbara-lee-announces-bid-for-dianne-feinsteins-u-s-senate-seat","title":"Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee Announces Bid for Dianne Feinstein's US Senate Seat","publishDate":1676990453,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, a longtime advocate for progressive issues and a leader in social justice and anti-war causes, on Tuesday formally announced her run for Dianne Feinstein’s highly coveted U.S. Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TX25hZ42FY\">video\u003c/a> released by her Senate campaign, Lee leans on her biography: growing up in the segregated South, her successful fight to integrate her high school cheerleading squad, escaping a violent marriage, her time as an unhoused mother and her determination to attend college as a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To do nothing has never been an option for me,\" Lee says in the nearly three-minute video produced by the political consulting firm Left Hook. The veteran Democrat, who is 76, also addresses those who say her age might be a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who say my time has passed, well, when does making change go out of style?\" she asks in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has represented Oakland and neighboring East Bay cities in the U.S. Congress since 1998, when she won a special election to replace Ron Dellums — for whom she once worked as a staff member — after he resigned the seat. She has been easily reelected every two years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before heading to Washington, Lee had a long history in public office, including stints in California’s state Assembly and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is the third prominent Democratic member of Congress from California to join the increasingly crowded field of candidates seeking to replace Feinstein, who last week announced her plans to retire at the end of the current term after serving for more than 30 years. Even before Feinstein’s decision was made public, nationally recognized Reps. Katie Porter, of Orange County, and Adam Schiff, of Los Angeles, had already jumped into the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aide to Lee says her campaign — launched during Black History Month — will emphasize the importance of representation in national government and remind voters that there are currently no Black women in the U.S. Senate. Kamala Harris, the last Black woman to serve in that chamber, resigned her seat in 2021 to become U.S. vice president. [aside label=\"More Stories on Sen. Dianne Feinstein\" tag=\"dianne-feinstein\"] \"[Lee] has been a lifelong champion and fighter for racial justice and equality,\" said Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color, a San Francisco-based political organization, and author of the book \u003cem>How We Win the Civil War\u003c/em>. \"And there are very few people in politics in this country, period, who can put their resumes up against Barbara Lee’s on that front.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was born in 1946 in El Paso, where her mother worked with the NAACP to integrate the University of Texas. After she and her family moved to Southern California in 1960, Lee picked up the mantle of civil rights warrior. As she told KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018, she fought to integrate her high school cheerleading squad in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was literally 15 years old, and I said, 'I really want to be a cheerleader and I can't because I don't look right,'\" Lee said. She teamed up with the NAACP, which approached the school and urged them to change the process for selecting cheerleaders to make it more fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And guess what? I won. So I was the first African American cheerleader at San Fernando High,\" Lee recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, as a single mother on public assistance, Lee went on to attend Mills College in Oakland, where she headed up its Black Student Union. In 1972, she invited Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, who was running for president that year, to speak to students on campus. The experience helped fuel her interest in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'You have got to register to vote and get involved because you can't stay on the outside, you know, looking in and fighting from the outside,'\" Lee told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that time, Lee also coordinated fundraising efforts for the Oakland mayoral campaign of Black Panthers’ leader Bobby Seale, and later went on to work for Rep. Dellums, whose seat she would eventually take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress in 2001, Lee gained national recognition when she famously cast the lone vote against giving President George W. Bush the authority to go to war with Afghanistan just days after the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our country is in a state of mourning,\" she said before casting her vote. \"Some of us must say, 'Let's step back for a moment. Let's just pause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after casting the lone dissenting vote, Lee told KQED that some friends and colleagues had urged her to change her mind and support the war authorization. \"They said, ‘Barbara, you cannot let this one red light (signifying a no vote) stay up on that where you've got to change it. This is going to kill you literally, and your political life,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she stood her ground, and her vote against the war has stood the test of time, as the U.S. did in fact get mired in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years, costing thousands of lives, with little to show for it. In a blatant indication of defeat, Pres. Joe Biden in 2021 withdrew U.S. troops under violent, chaotic conditions, after the U.S.-backed president fled the country, leaving it under the control of the Taliban, much as it had been when the U.S. entered the conflict two decades earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her bid to replace Feinstein, who is 89 and has faced questions about her mental fitness, Lee, who will be 78 in November 2024, will also have to overcome the issue of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's a question just of chronological age as much as attitude in relationship to the status quo,\" said Phillips of Democracy in Color. \"For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.\" [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Steve Phillips, founder, Democracy in Color\"]'For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.'[/pullquote] At times Lee has used her credibility with the Democratic Party’s most liberal members to build bridges with moderates. After the bitter Democratic presidential primary in 2016 left supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders angry toward the Democratic establishment and nominee Hillary Clinton, Lee helped mend the intraparty fissures that erupted at the Democratic National Convention that year, by hosting a unity event with Rev. Jesse Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Lee’s biggest struggle of all will be raising enough money to compete with the likes of Schiff and Porter, who are both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936335/california-politicians-stash-35-million-in-unused-campaign-funds-some-of-them-years-after-leaving-office\">prolific fundraisers\u003c/a>. According to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00331769/\">Lee ended 2022 with just $52,353\u003c/a> in her account. By comparison, Schiff ended the year with nearly $21 million while Porter had $7.4 million left after an expensive reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Lee formally announced her candidacy, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who served with Lee in the state Assembly decades ago, noted that fundraising was not her greatest strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has all kinds of problems raising money,\" he said. \"She never will ask people for money. She doesn’t even ask me for money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ludovic Blain, director of the California Donor Table, a statewide fundraising organization that invests in communities of color, said he believes a variety of progressive donors will step forward to support her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the same folks who supported folks like Stacey Abrams (in Georgia) on the other side of the country,\" he said. \"So I think that there is money for her to raise both from larger donors and from regular folk around the state and around the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips noted that while Schiff and Porter have larger national profiles than Lee does, she’ll stand out to many voters as the only well-known candidate of color currently in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the majority of voters in California are people of color,\" Phillips said. \"Whoever California elects needs to represent, in particular, the communities of color that are under attack in our state and nationally from some of their would-be Senate colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, Lee said in her 2018 KQED interview, \"You have to be authentic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really be able to let people know that you're there on their side and bring them in. And listen,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Barbara Lee, a longtime advocate for progressive issues and a leader in social justice and anti-war causes, has represented Oakland and neighboring East Bay cities in the US Congress since 1998.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1677008929,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1453},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee Announces Bid for Dianne Feinstein's US Senate Seat | KQED","description":"Barbara Lee, a longtime advocate for progressive issues and a leader in social justice and anti-war causes, has represented Oakland and neighboring East Bay cities in the US Congress since 1998.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11941420/oakland-congresswoman-barbara-lee-announces-bid-for-dianne-feinsteins-u-s-senate-seat","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, a longtime advocate for progressive issues and a leader in social justice and anti-war causes, on Tuesday formally announced her run for Dianne Feinstein’s highly coveted U.S. Senate seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TX25hZ42FY\">video\u003c/a> released by her Senate campaign, Lee leans on her biography: growing up in the segregated South, her successful fight to integrate her high school cheerleading squad, escaping a violent marriage, her time as an unhoused mother and her determination to attend college as a single mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To do nothing has never been an option for me,\" Lee says in the nearly three-minute video produced by the political consulting firm Left Hook. The veteran Democrat, who is 76, also addresses those who say her age might be a liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who say my time has passed, well, when does making change go out of style?\" she asks in the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee has represented Oakland and neighboring East Bay cities in the U.S. Congress since 1998, when she won a special election to replace Ron Dellums — for whom she once worked as a staff member — after he resigned the seat. She has been easily reelected every two years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before heading to Washington, Lee had a long history in public office, including stints in California’s state Assembly and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is the third prominent Democratic member of Congress from California to join the increasingly crowded field of candidates seeking to replace Feinstein, who last week announced her plans to retire at the end of the current term after serving for more than 30 years. Even before Feinstein’s decision was made public, nationally recognized Reps. Katie Porter, of Orange County, and Adam Schiff, of Los Angeles, had already jumped into the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aide to Lee says her campaign — launched during Black History Month — will emphasize the importance of representation in national government and remind voters that there are currently no Black women in the U.S. Senate. Kamala Harris, the last Black woman to serve in that chamber, resigned her seat in 2021 to become U.S. vice president. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Sen. Dianne Feinstein ","tag":"dianne-feinstein"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \"[Lee] has been a lifelong champion and fighter for racial justice and equality,\" said Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color, a San Francisco-based political organization, and author of the book \u003cem>How We Win the Civil War\u003c/em>. \"And there are very few people in politics in this country, period, who can put their resumes up against Barbara Lee’s on that front.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was born in 1946 in El Paso, where her mother worked with the NAACP to integrate the University of Texas. After she and her family moved to Southern California in 1960, Lee picked up the mantle of civil rights warrior. As she told KQED’s Political Breakdown in 2018, she fought to integrate her high school cheerleading squad in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was literally 15 years old, and I said, 'I really want to be a cheerleader and I can't because I don't look right,'\" Lee said. She teamed up with the NAACP, which approached the school and urged them to change the process for selecting cheerleaders to make it more fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And guess what? I won. So I was the first African American cheerleader at San Fernando High,\" Lee recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, as a single mother on public assistance, Lee went on to attend Mills College in Oakland, where she headed up its Black Student Union. In 1972, she invited Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, who was running for president that year, to speak to students on campus. The experience helped fuel her interest in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'You have got to register to vote and get involved because you can't stay on the outside, you know, looking in and fighting from the outside,'\" Lee told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around that time, Lee also coordinated fundraising efforts for the Oakland mayoral campaign of Black Panthers’ leader Bobby Seale, and later went on to work for Rep. Dellums, whose seat she would eventually take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress in 2001, Lee gained national recognition when she famously cast the lone vote against giving President George W. Bush the authority to go to war with Afghanistan just days after the 9/11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our country is in a state of mourning,\" she said before casting her vote. \"Some of us must say, 'Let's step back for a moment. Let's just pause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after casting the lone dissenting vote, Lee told KQED that some friends and colleagues had urged her to change her mind and support the war authorization. \"They said, ‘Barbara, you cannot let this one red light (signifying a no vote) stay up on that where you've got to change it. This is going to kill you literally, and your political life,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she stood her ground, and her vote against the war has stood the test of time, as the U.S. did in fact get mired in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years, costing thousands of lives, with little to show for it. In a blatant indication of defeat, Pres. Joe Biden in 2021 withdrew U.S. troops under violent, chaotic conditions, after the U.S.-backed president fled the country, leaving it under the control of the Taliban, much as it had been when the U.S. entered the conflict two decades earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her bid to replace Feinstein, who is 89 and has faced questions about her mental fitness, Lee, who will be 78 in November 2024, will also have to overcome the issue of age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's a question just of chronological age as much as attitude in relationship to the status quo,\" said Phillips of Democracy in Color. \"For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'For young people, I think it's who's the biggest challenger to the status quo.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Steve Phillips, founder, Democracy in Color","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> At times Lee has used her credibility with the Democratic Party’s most liberal members to build bridges with moderates. After the bitter Democratic presidential primary in 2016 left supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders angry toward the Democratic establishment and nominee Hillary Clinton, Lee helped mend the intraparty fissures that erupted at the Democratic National Convention that year, by hosting a unity event with Rev. Jesse Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Lee’s biggest struggle of all will be raising enough money to compete with the likes of Schiff and Porter, who are both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936335/california-politicians-stash-35-million-in-unused-campaign-funds-some-of-them-years-after-leaving-office\">prolific fundraisers\u003c/a>. According to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00331769/\">Lee ended 2022 with just $52,353\u003c/a> in her account. By comparison, Schiff ended the year with nearly $21 million while Porter had $7.4 million left after an expensive reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Lee formally announced her candidacy, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who served with Lee in the state Assembly decades ago, noted that fundraising was not her greatest strength.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She has all kinds of problems raising money,\" he said. \"She never will ask people for money. She doesn’t even ask me for money!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ludovic Blain, director of the California Donor Table, a statewide fundraising organization that invests in communities of color, said he believes a variety of progressive donors will step forward to support her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the same folks who supported folks like Stacey Abrams (in Georgia) on the other side of the country,\" he said. \"So I think that there is money for her to raise both from larger donors and from regular folk around the state and around the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips noted that while Schiff and Porter have larger national profiles than Lee does, she’ll stand out to many voters as the only well-known candidate of color currently in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the majority of voters in California are people of color,\" Phillips said. \"Whoever California elects needs to represent, in particular, the communities of color that are under attack in our state and nationally from some of their would-be Senate colleagues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the end of the day, Lee said in her 2018 KQED interview, \"You have to be authentic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to really be able to let people know that you're there on their side and bring them in. And listen,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11941420/oakland-congresswoman-barbara-lee-announces-bid-for-dianne-feinsteins-u-s-senate-seat","authors":["255"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_22185","news_18538","news_274","news_27626","news_18","news_17968","news_24023","news_17628"],"featImg":"news_11889415","label":"news"},"news_11941047":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11941047","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11941047","score":null,"sort":[1676403928000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sen-dianne-feinstein-wont-seek-reelection-ending-groundbreaking-political-career","title":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Retire at End of Term, Ending Groundbreaking Political Career","publishDate":1676403928,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced Tuesday she will not seek reelection in 2024, signaling the end of a groundbreaking political career spanning six decades, in which she shattered gender barriers and left a mark on political battles over reproductive rights, gun control and environmental protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,\" Feinstein said in a statement.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\"]'She's a legend. A legend in California as the first woman senator, a legend in this Senate.'[/pullquote]“Even with a divided Congress, we can still pass bills that will improve lives,” she said. “Each of us was sent here to solve problems. That’s what I’ve done for the last 30 years, and that’s what I plan to do for the next two years. My thanks to the people of California for allowing me to serve them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters in Washington on Tuesday, Feinstein said, “There's times for all things under the sun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “I think that will be the right time, towards the end of next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement was widely expected. Feinstein, who turns 90 in June, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 and is currently the oldest serving member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, questions have been raised about her cognitive health and memory, though she has defended her effectiveness in representing a state that is home to nearly 40 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In advance of her announcement, a field of Democratic candidates had already begun assembling for what is likely to be a fierce campaign to replace her in a heavily Democratic state. In January, Reps. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937601/orange-county-democrat-katie-porter-launches-bid-for-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat\">Katie Porter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939215/los-angeles-democrat-adam-schiff-a-key-trump-critic-running-for-feinsteins-senate-seat\">Adam Schiff\u003c/a> both threw their hats in the ring, with other high-profile candidates likely to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein is one of the Senate's few remaining veterans of the so-called “Year of the Woman,” referring to several women who were elected to the male-dominated chamber during the 1992 election. But even before she moved to Washington, Feinstein had already broken multiple barriers in her home city, and become one of the most prominent women in American politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Feinstein became the first woman to serve as president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She then became the city's first female mayor, following the November 1978 assassinations of then-Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk by a former supervisor, Dan White. Feinstein found Milk’s body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, she became the first woman to head the Senate Intelligence Committee and the first woman to serve as the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recognize that women have had to fight for everything they have gotten, every right,” she told The Associated Press in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long known for her keen mind and razor-sharp tongue, Feinstein gained a reputation as a pragmatic centrist who left a mark on political battles over issues ranging from reproductive rights to environmental protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein is particularly closely associated with efforts to broaden gun restrictions. Early in her career, the Senate approved her amendment to ban manufacturing and sales of certain types of assault weapons as part of a crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. The ban expired 10 years later and was never replaced, but it remained a trademark issue in a career that was molded by gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was also known for reaching out to Republicans to find middle ground. While that may have helped her notch legislative accomplishments in Washington, it chafed some in a Democratic Party that has moved increasingly to the left in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That frustration was on display during her last reelection campaign in 2018. The California Democratic Party endorsed a liberal rival for her seat, with some delegates complaining Feinstein had been in Washington too long and hadn’t stood strong enough for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also infuriated liberals in 2020 when she closed out confirmation hearings for Justice Amy Coney Barrett by embracing Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, a Republican, and thanking him for a job well done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal advocacy groups that had fiercely opposed Barrett’s nomination to replace the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called for Feinstein to step down from the Judiciary Committee leadership. A month later, she announced she would remain on the committee but relinquish her position as the top Democrat.[aside label=\"More on Dianne Feinstein\" tag=\"dianne-feinstein\"]But such tensions were laid aside on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, where Democrats praised her career. At a closed-door lunch of Democratic senators, attendees broke into rounds of applause for Feinstein after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced her decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a legend,” Schumer later told reporters. “A legend in California as the first woman senator, a legend in this Senate. She was the leader on so many different issues, assault weapons, environment, women’s rights, and so much else. She approached everything studiously and carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein told her colleagues that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Richard-Blum-dies-S-F-financier-UC-regent-and-16953104.php\">recent death of her husband\u003c/a>, Richard Blum, had taken a major toll, and that she was ready to step away from public life after finishing this term, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said after the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senator Feinstein made history,” said Warren. “She changed this country and she was a woman on the front lines in fights, like access to assault weapons, and national security and intelligence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren added, “Every other woman in public office owes a special debt to Dianne Feinstein.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her home state, the long-serving senator was lionized for her historic tenure in public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senator Feinstein is a trailblazer in every sense of the word,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “From becoming San Francisco’s first female Mayor in 1978 to being sworn in as California’s first female Senator in 1992, she has always served our city, state, and country with conviction and honor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, called her San Francisco neighbor “a titan” of the Senate “with a record that stands among the finest in history.” Pelosi noted that Feinstein also steered billions of federal dollars to California for environmental protection, among a long list of her other accomplishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the past thirty years, California and our Country has been magnificently served by the leadership of Senator Feinstein: from our national security and personal safety, to the health of our people and our planet, to the strength of our Democracy,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story includes reporting from KQED's Matthew Green.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Feinstein, who turns 90 in June, has held her seat for three decades, and is currently the oldest serving member of Congress. Her announcement signals the end of a storied political career.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1676484296,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1172},"headData":{"title":"Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Retire at End of Term, Ending Groundbreaking Political Career | KQED","description":"Feinstein, who turns 90 in June, has held her seat for three decades, and is currently the oldest serving member of Congress. Her announcement signals the end of a storied political career.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"Michael R. Blood\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11941047/sen-dianne-feinstein-wont-seek-reelection-ending-groundbreaking-political-career","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced Tuesday she will not seek reelection in 2024, signaling the end of a groundbreaking political career spanning six decades, in which she shattered gender barriers and left a mark on political battles over reproductive rights, gun control and environmental protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends,\" Feinstein said in a statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'She's a legend. A legend in California as the first woman senator, a legend in this Senate.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Even with a divided Congress, we can still pass bills that will improve lives,” she said. “Each of us was sent here to solve problems. That’s what I’ve done for the last 30 years, and that’s what I plan to do for the next two years. My thanks to the people of California for allowing me to serve them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters in Washington on Tuesday, Feinstein said, “There's times for all things under the sun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, “I think that will be the right time, towards the end of next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement was widely expected. Feinstein, who turns 90 in June, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 and is currently the oldest serving member of Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, questions have been raised about her cognitive health and memory, though she has defended her effectiveness in representing a state that is home to nearly 40 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In advance of her announcement, a field of Democratic candidates had already begun assembling for what is likely to be a fierce campaign to replace her in a heavily Democratic state. In January, Reps. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937601/orange-county-democrat-katie-porter-launches-bid-for-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat\">Katie Porter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939215/los-angeles-democrat-adam-schiff-a-key-trump-critic-running-for-feinsteins-senate-seat\">Adam Schiff\u003c/a> both threw their hats in the ring, with other high-profile candidates likely to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein is one of the Senate's few remaining veterans of the so-called “Year of the Woman,” referring to several women who were elected to the male-dominated chamber during the 1992 election. But even before she moved to Washington, Feinstein had already broken multiple barriers in her home city, and become one of the most prominent women in American politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, Feinstein became the first woman to serve as president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She then became the city's first female mayor, following the November 1978 assassinations of then-Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk by a former supervisor, Dan White. Feinstein found Milk’s body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Washington, she became the first woman to head the Senate Intelligence Committee and the first woman to serve as the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recognize that women have had to fight for everything they have gotten, every right,” she told The Associated Press in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long known for her keen mind and razor-sharp tongue, Feinstein gained a reputation as a pragmatic centrist who left a mark on political battles over issues ranging from reproductive rights to environmental protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein is particularly closely associated with efforts to broaden gun restrictions. Early in her career, the Senate approved her amendment to ban manufacturing and sales of certain types of assault weapons as part of a crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. The ban expired 10 years later and was never replaced, but it remained a trademark issue in a career that was molded by gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was also known for reaching out to Republicans to find middle ground. While that may have helped her notch legislative accomplishments in Washington, it chafed some in a Democratic Party that has moved increasingly to the left in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That frustration was on display during her last reelection campaign in 2018. The California Democratic Party endorsed a liberal rival for her seat, with some delegates complaining Feinstein had been in Washington too long and hadn’t stood strong enough for immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also infuriated liberals in 2020 when she closed out confirmation hearings for Justice Amy Coney Barrett by embracing Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, a Republican, and thanking him for a job well done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal advocacy groups that had fiercely opposed Barrett’s nomination to replace the late liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called for Feinstein to step down from the Judiciary Committee leadership. A month later, she announced she would remain on the committee but relinquish her position as the top Democrat.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Dianne Feinstein ","tag":"dianne-feinstein"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But such tensions were laid aside on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, where Democrats praised her career. At a closed-door lunch of Democratic senators, attendees broke into rounds of applause for Feinstein after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced her decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s a legend,” Schumer later told reporters. “A legend in California as the first woman senator, a legend in this Senate. She was the leader on so many different issues, assault weapons, environment, women’s rights, and so much else. She approached everything studiously and carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein told her colleagues that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Richard-Blum-dies-S-F-financier-UC-regent-and-16953104.php\">recent death of her husband\u003c/a>, Richard Blum, had taken a major toll, and that she was ready to step away from public life after finishing this term, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said after the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senator Feinstein made history,” said Warren. “She changed this country and she was a woman on the front lines in fights, like access to assault weapons, and national security and intelligence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren added, “Every other woman in public office owes a special debt to Dianne Feinstein.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her home state, the long-serving senator was lionized for her historic tenure in public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senator Feinstein is a trailblazer in every sense of the word,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “From becoming San Francisco’s first female Mayor in 1978 to being sworn in as California’s first female Senator in 1992, she has always served our city, state, and country with conviction and honor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic U.S. Rep. 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And I certainly respect her enough to want to give her that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff joins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937601/orange-county-democrat-katie-porter-launches-bid-for-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat\">Orange County Congressmember Katie Porter\u003c/a> as the second prominent Democrat to announce their candidacy for the job in the 2024 election. Like Porter, Schiff is a prolific fundraiser. But while \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00636571/\">Porter was left with less than $8 million\u003c/a> after defending her House seat last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00343871/?cycle=2024\">Schiff has more than $20 million\u003c/a> in his war chest, according to the most recent filings with the Federal Elections Commission.[aside postID=forum_2010101891896 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/01/GettyImages-1450380895-1020x680.jpg']While Porter and Schiff are both considered mainstream Democrats, Porter, elected to the House in 2018, is close to progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and made a name for herself grilling top CEOs using her signature \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kpwhiteboard\">whiteboard\u003c/a> to emphasize her assertions of corporate greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, who like Porter graduated from Harvard Law School, has been a favorite target of Donald Trump and Fox News. And just this week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy blocked Schiff and East Bay Congressmember Eric Swalwell from serving on the House Intelligence Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Schiff told KQED, it was just an example of McCarthy “bending to the most extreme elements of his conference,” adding that “if McCarthy thinks this is going to stop me, he's going to find out just how wrong he is. And I think a great many Californians will delight in the idea of Adam Schiff being Kevin McCarthy's home state senator.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Los Angeles Congressmember Adam Schiff\"]'I think a great many Californians will delight in the idea of Adam Schiff being Kevin McCarthy's home state senator.'[/pullquote]After two women being elected to represent California in the U.S. Senate since 1992, Gov. Gavin Newsom chose Alex Padilla to replace Kamala Harris when she was elected vice president. Now, with Feinstein likely to retire, voters will have to decide how important gender is in who takes the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the voters are going to look at a variety of factors in deciding what's most important to them at this moment,” Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressmember Barbara Lee is expected to join the race in the coming weeks. Lee is close to leaders in the civil rights movement and would need to mobilize voters of color, said Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of voters in California are people of color. And then, you know, 55% of the eligible voters and around half of the actual voters in 2020,” Phillips said. “And so it's fine to have a national constituency. But at the end of the day, you've got to get voters in this state to back you. 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And I certainly respect her enough to want to give her that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff joins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937601/orange-county-democrat-katie-porter-launches-bid-for-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat\">Orange County Congressmember Katie Porter\u003c/a> as the second prominent Democrat to announce their candidacy for the job in the 2024 election. Like Porter, Schiff is a prolific fundraiser. But while \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00636571/\">Porter was left with less than $8 million\u003c/a> after defending her House seat last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00343871/?cycle=2024\">Schiff has more than $20 million\u003c/a> in his war chest, according to the most recent filings with the Federal Elections Commission.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101891896","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/01/GettyImages-1450380895-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While Porter and Schiff are both considered mainstream Democrats, Porter, elected to the House in 2018, is close to progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and made a name for herself grilling top CEOs using her signature \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kpwhiteboard\">whiteboard\u003c/a> to emphasize her assertions of corporate greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff, who like Porter graduated from Harvard Law School, has been a favorite target of Donald Trump and Fox News. And just this week, Speaker Kevin McCarthy blocked Schiff and East Bay Congressmember Eric Swalwell from serving on the House Intelligence Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Schiff told KQED, it was just an example of McCarthy “bending to the most extreme elements of his conference,” adding that “if McCarthy thinks this is going to stop me, he's going to find out just how wrong he is. 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Now, with Feinstein likely to retire, voters will have to decide how important gender is in who takes the seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the voters are going to look at a variety of factors in deciding what's most important to them at this moment,” Schiff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congressmember Barbara Lee is expected to join the race in the coming weeks. Lee is close to leaders in the civil rights movement and would need to mobilize voters of color, said Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of voters in California are people of color. And then, you know, 55% of the eligible voters and around half of the actual voters in 2020,” Phillips said. “And so it's fine to have a national constituency. But at the end of the day, you've got to get voters in this state to back you. 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Katie Porter, a darling of progressive Democrats, on Tuesday announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SczKx9cG82k\">via video\u003c/a> her bid to run for Dianne Feinstein's U.S. Senate seat in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49-year-old, who was first elected in 2018 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-17/2022-california-midterm-election-katie-porter-scott-baugh-orange-county-results\">narrowly won reelection last year\u003c/a> in her redrawn district, has had a meteoric rise in national profile, primarily by deft use of social media and a signature whiteboard she uses in congressional hearings to excoriate corporate executives on issues like mortgage foreclosures, prescription drug prices and student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter has parlayed that image into a massive fundraising operation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/raising-bythenumbers/?office=H\">taking in more than $25.7 million\u003c/a> in the last election cycle, more than any other member of Congress except newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However Porter spent about two-thirds of that haul defending her newly drawn congressional seat against Republican Scott Baugh in November. Shortly after Porter's announcement, Baugh revealed his intention to seek that seat again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her sleekly produced two-minute YouTube video announcement, Porter said, “California needs a warrior in Washington,” arguing that the deck has long been stacked against ordinary Americans in favor of special interests. Porter promised, if elected to the Senate, to “name names and demand justice” by “taking on Wall Street, the big banks and Big Pharma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, who is 89 and has held the seat for 30 years, has not yet announced her plans for 2024. But potential replacements, including Porter, have been mobilizing support and building campaign infrastructures amid mounting reports of Feinstein's mental fitness that have called into question her ability to do the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"katie-porter\"]“Everyone is of course welcome to throw their hat in the ring, and I will make an announcement concerning my plans for 2024 at the appropriate time,” Feinstein said in a statement released by her office, in response to Porter's announcement. “Right now I’m focused on ensuring California has all the resources it needs to cope with the devastating storms slamming the state and leaving more than a dozen dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While supporters have quietly urged Feinstein to at least announce she will not run for reelection, she has steadfastly refused to do so. But some state Democratic political veterans, including former U.S. Sen. 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Katie Porter, a darling of progressive Democrats, on Tuesday announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SczKx9cG82k\">via video\u003c/a> her bid to run for Dianne Feinstein's U.S. Senate seat in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49-year-old, who was first elected in 2018 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-17/2022-california-midterm-election-katie-porter-scott-baugh-orange-county-results\">narrowly won reelection last year\u003c/a> in her redrawn district, has had a meteoric rise in national profile, primarily by deft use of social media and a signature whiteboard she uses in congressional hearings to excoriate corporate executives on issues like mortgage foreclosures, prescription drug prices and student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter has parlayed that image into a massive fundraising operation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fec.gov/data/raising-bythenumbers/?office=H\">taking in more than $25.7 million\u003c/a> in the last election cycle, more than any other member of Congress except newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However Porter spent about two-thirds of that haul defending her newly drawn congressional seat against Republican Scott Baugh in November. Shortly after Porter's announcement, Baugh revealed his intention to seek that seat again next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her sleekly produced two-minute YouTube video announcement, Porter said, “California needs a warrior in Washington,” arguing that the deck has long been stacked against ordinary Americans in favor of special interests. Porter promised, if elected to the Senate, to “name names and demand justice” by “taking on Wall Street, the big banks and Big Pharma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, who is 89 and has held the seat for 30 years, has not yet announced her plans for 2024. But potential replacements, including Porter, have been mobilizing support and building campaign infrastructures amid mounting reports of Feinstein's mental fitness that have called into question her ability to do the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"katie-porter"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Everyone is of course welcome to throw their hat in the ring, and I will make an announcement concerning my plans for 2024 at the appropriate time,” Feinstein said in a statement released by her office, in response to Porter's announcement. “Right now I’m focused on ensuring California has all the resources it needs to cope with the devastating storms slamming the state and leaving more than a dozen dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While supporters have quietly urged Feinstein to at least announce she will not run for reelection, she has steadfastly refused to do so. 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