Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( born June 22, 1933, San Francisco, born Dianne Emiel Goldman ) is a U.S. Senator from California Democratic Party. She was also the first and so far only female Mayor of San Francisco.

Life

Dianne Emiel Goldman's father, Leon Goldman, was a renowned surgeon who traveled widely and lectured at academic conferences. She earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1955 at Stanford University. In 1957 she married Jack Berman, a colleague from the office of District Attorney of San Francisco. Three years later, the couple divorced again. Shortly after she began her career in politics, she married in 1962 the neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein. In 1969 she won a position in the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors and at the same time in the City Council ( City Council of San Francisco). This position kept Feinstein nine years and was the first president of this body. During this time, she tried to become mayor twice unsuccessfully.

Policy

When in November 1978 Councillor Dan White Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk assassinated, Feinstein was as President of the Board of Supervisors on December 4, 1978 Mayor automatically. They stayed the rest of the parliamentary term in office, won re-election in 1979 and retired on January 8, 1988 from the office. In 1984 she survived the attempt to select the Office ( Recall), following its proposal to ban handguns in San Francisco.

Died in 1978, her husband Bertram colorectal cancer. Two years later she married Richard C. Blum, an investment banker who her later ( 1990) in their attempt to win the California governor's mansion to fund the election campaign helped. She lost to Republican Pete Wilson. The discontinued by Wilson 's Senate seat was won by Feinstein in a by-election. It was 1994, 2000, 2006 and 2012, re-elected. In the years 1998 and 2003 many advised her to run for the governorship; but she refused.

Feinstein is currently the oldest member of the U.S. Senate.

On October 28, 2013, it announced as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, that there would be an investigation into the monitoring of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders of friendly states in the Senate.

Views

As an advocate of embryonic stem cell research Feinstein was one of 58 senators who, directed a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush in the hope that the restrictions of government research funding be canceled.

Feinstein is a strong supporter of gun control laws, even though they once even wore a gun. A permit that allows a person concealed to carry a weapon is hard to get in California. At times, Feinstein was the only person in San Francisco, which had such an authorization.

Dianne Feinstein is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. In the Senate, she sits in the mighty Investment Committee and the Rules Committee; Moreover, it is since 2009 Chairman of the Committee for the Intelligence and stands before the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress.