Dianne Feinstein

Baltimore-area schools incorporate inauguration into lessons

2009-01-21 00:00:00

They wrote speeches and poems and plotted graphs with the ages of presidents upon inauguration. Yesterday's inauguration of Barack Obama provided boundless learning opportunities for students in area classrooms - assuming they were in school. Baltimore...

Schedule of events for Obama's inauguration

2009-01-19 00:00:00

TUESDAY, Jan. 20 Gates to the Inaugural Ceremony open at 8 a.m. The inaugural festivities are scheduled to start at 10 a.m. on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol. They will include: • Musical selections of The United States Marine Band, followed by...

Roberts promises to keep an 'open mind'

2005-09-13 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee for chief justice, Judge John G. Roberts Jr., said yesterday that Supreme Court justices have a "limited role" - to apply the law, not make it. On the first day of Senate hearings on his nomination, Roberts pledged...

ChoicePoint had earlier data leak

2005-03-04 00:00:00

Scammers penetrated ChoicePoint Inc.'s vast online database of personal records five years ago in an operation similar to a more recent case that has triggered a national furor over privacy, court records show. Two Nigerian-born fraud artists were...

Senators defeat subpoena attempt

2004-06-18 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Republicans lined up yesterday to defeat an attempt by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats to subpoena Justice Department memos on the use of torture in the interrogations of suspected terrorists. But Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, a Utah...

Roberts: Roe 'settled as precedent'

2005-09-14 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - During a long and sometimes contentious day of questioning, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. called the landmark 1973 abortion rights case "settled as a precedent of the court." But he stopped short yesterday of pledging to...

A cool nominee sidesteps hot issues

2005-09-14 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Under intense pressure at his nationally televised Senate hearing yesterday, Judge John G. Roberts Jr. never lost his cool and never gave an inch. He was soft-spoken, even-tempered and smoothly evasive through a long day of questioning....

Nomination must go before the Senate Judiciary Committee

2005-07-20 05:34:26

REPUBLICANS Chairman: Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Elected to a fifth term in November, Specter, 75, had to fight to win the committee gavel after conservatives blasted him for his remarks that President Bush might have a hard time getting anti-...

Hill workers feel irritated by irradiated envelopes

2002-02-20 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Mail delivery in Sen. Patrick J. Leahy's office goes like this: Aides to the Vermont Democrat open the windows, slip on rubber gloves, sift through letters and then, in the most disquieting part of the daily ritual, start worrying about...

Speech convinces skeptics in Congress

2003-02-06 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Even some who have questioned the need for war described Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's performance at the United Nations yesterday as a persuasive case for military action against Iraq within a matter of weeks. Lawmakers from both...

Daschle seeks Bush apology on patriotism

2002-09-26 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle angrily attacked President Bush and his administration yesterday, accusing them of using the debates on Iraq and homeland defense to challenge Democrats' commitment to national security. Speaking on the...

Key Calif. Democrats rally around Bustamante

2003-08-22 00:00:00

LOS ANGELES - California Gov. Gray Davis came under growing pressure yesterday to abandon his me-or-nothing strategy against the recall, as key Democrats rallied behind the backup candidacy of Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante to hedge against losing power in...

Representative for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Molly O'Brien, takes a look at a Chevy Volt, an electric-powered vehicle, during a ribbon cutting ceremony at Burbank Town Center on Thursday, December 1, 2011. 11 electric charging vehicle stations will be spread throughout the city.

2011-12-01 14:19:17

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she ?was wiped out, too, but we don?t know how much.?

2011-05-25 00:00:00

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she ?was wiped out, too, but we don?t know how much.?

2011-05-25 00:00:00