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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; Dianne Feinstein</title>
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		<title>Senate rejects Feinstein&#8217;s assault-weapons ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to rejecting the Manchin-Toomey gun background check amendment today, the U.S. Senate also soundly rejected Dianne Feinstein’s effort to re-instate and expand the federal ban on assault weapons. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., last month had announced that he wouldn’t let Feinstein’s legislation proceed as part of a bigger gun-control bill, but that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feinstein, Boxer endorse Mike Honda for 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add California’s U.S. Senators to the cavalcade of Democratic stars giving early endorsements to Rep. Mike Honda as he tries to neutralize a potential challenge from a fellow Democrat. “I’m proud to endorse Congressman Mike Honda,” U.S. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said in a news release issued today by Honda’s campaign. “He works tirelessly for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feinstein won&#8217;t give up on assault weapons ban</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/19/feinstein-wont-give-up-on-assault-weapons-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=22542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein sounded pretty ticked off when she spoke on CNN a few moments ago about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pronouncing dead her effort to reinstate the federal assault-weapons ban. Feinstein, D-Calif., said Reid, D-Nev., told her she would have an opportunity for a vote and “I take him at his word.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dianne Feinstein &amp; Bill Nelson get tough on Big Oil</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/18/dianne-feinstein-bill-nelson-get-tough-on-big-oil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal subsidies would be reduced for oil companies that conduct spill-prone, deep-water drilling under a pair of bills introduced Monday by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. Feinstein’s Deepwater Drilling Royalty Relief Prohibition Act ends federal incentives for deep-sea oil and natural gas drilling, barring the Interior Department from waiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gun controllers push their message, momentum</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/12/gun-controllers-push-their-message-momentum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=22451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 today to pass a bill that would require all gun sales be subject to background checks, and congressional Democrats and their allies are looking to maximize their gun-control momentum and messaging. Today, Mayors Against Illegal Guns released a new advertisement featuring religious leaders demanding that Congress act to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers: Add Stornetta to national monument</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/03/01/lawmakers-add-stornetta-to-national-monument/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California’s U.S. Senators and two Bay Area House members this week urged President Obama to add the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands to the California Coastal National Monument. The region around Stornetta in Mendocino County gets about 1.75 million visitors each year, the vast majority of whom are from the Bay Area and Sacramento. The California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Area lawmakers react to SOTU</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/12/bay-area-lawmakers-react-to-sotu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/12/bay-area-lawmakers-react-to-sotu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose: I applaud the President’s talk tonight regarding jobs and technology. We must ensure the resilience of the American worker, and the adaptability and innovation inherent in our economy, to keep us at the forefront of global competitiveness. This is the Silicon Valley way of life and business, where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recalling Ted Nugent&#8217;s &#8216;greatest hits&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/12/recalling-ted-nugents-greatest-hits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/02/12/recalling-ted-nugents-greatest-hits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rock star Ted Nugent – an (ahem) outspoken advocate of Second Amendment rights – is attending President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight as the guest of Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Tex., who released this photo a few hours ago: It hardly seems five and a half years have passed since we wrote about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers bringing gun-violence victims to SOTU</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some California lawmakers now embroiled in the nation’s gun-control debate will bring gun-violence victims with them as guests to President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who has introduced S. 150, a bill to reinstate an updated and expanded federal ban on assault weapons, will host Josh Stepakoff, 20. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California, Maryland senators lay Super Bowl bet</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/01/28/california-maryland-senators-lay-super-bowl-bet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California’s U.S. Senators have laid their bet with Maryland’s over the outcome of Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens this coming Sunday, Feb. 3 in New Orleans. U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., fired the first shot with a trash-talking letter promising the Ravens [...]]]></description>
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