Dianne Feinstein

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Wednesday called on Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey to explain the recent disbanding of a high-profile unit in the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles that specialized in prosecuting public corruption cases. In a letter to the attorney general, Feinstein said she read about the shake-up in news accounts. The articles described how U.S. Atty. Thomas P.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein ended a very personal campaign when she welcomed Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to her home Thursday for their first meeting since Obama wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1978, the San Francisco Democrat was among the first women to become mayor of a major American city. Fourteen years later, she and Barbara Boxer were elected as California's first female U.S. senators.

Five months after the sudden dismantling of the public corruption unit in the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, questions are still being raised in Washington, D.C., about the controversial move. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been exchanging letters with a top Justice Department official over the unit's disbanding, and the subject came up during a congressional oversight hearing late last month. In March, Los Angeles U.S. Atty. Thomas P.

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein says: "The bottom line is the election is in 2010. And I'll make a decision at the beginning of the year." A decision about whether to run for reelection? No, her third term won't be up until 2012. She'll be deciding whether to run for governor. You can almost feel the shudders and shock among the other Democrats gearing up to compete for governor when Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger is termed out in two years.

California's two senators this week offered markedly different approaches to slowing global warming, with Dianne Feinstein saying she may move to exempt power companies from her home state's landmark global warming laws and bring them under federal regulation instead. Coal-fired and other fossil-burning power plants are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States, producing a third of all emissions.

The recent forced resignations of six top federal prosecutors, including two in California, were based on "performance-related" concerns and were not politically motivated, a Justice Department official testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Deputy Atty. Gen. Paul J. McNulty defended the dismissals. "The indisputable fact is that United States attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president," he said. "They come and they go for lots of reasons."

Before wrapping up a three-day visit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell his gospel of political cooperation and build a consensus for his second-term agenda. Much of the day went smoothly, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer signaling support for the governor's plans. Then he stopped in to see the senior senator from California, Dianne Feinstein. Clearly the governor has not yet made a convert of Feinstein.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein offers plenty of tips on how California households can combat global warming, such as carpooling and running only a full dishwasher. But one bit of information Feinstein declines to share is the number of times that she flew last year on her husband's Gulfstream jet, which burns much more fuel per passenger-mile than commercial airliners. Gov.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced a measure Monday to force the Pentagon to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and move the trials of Al Qaeda suspects to the United States. But the Defense Department got another green light for those Guantanamo tribunals to continue, when the Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of two detainees who challenged the legality of the military commissions.

Citing Hillary Rodham Clinton's "hard-tempered" experience as first lady, popular California Democrat Dianne Feinstein endorsed her U.S. Senate colleague's White House bid Wednesday, adding another significant name to Clinton's list of West Coast political backers. Both senators referred to the history-making potential of the election -- Clinton, should she win, would be the nation's first female president.