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		<title>Feinstein to appear at Commonwealth Club</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/04/14/feinstein-to-appear-at-commonwealth-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will speak at the April 27 meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California on the subject of promoting democracy in countries whose residents are trying to remove authoritarian regimes. The event begins at 5 p.m. with check-in, followed by the program at 6 p.m., at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, Peacock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boxer: GOP boycott won&#8217;t stop climate-change bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is moving ahead with her cap-and-trade climate change bill despite Republican threats to boycott next Tuesday’s mark-up session. &#8220;That won&#8217;t stop us. We&#8217;re going to use every tool at our disposal to get that done,&#8221; she said this afternoon during a visit to Blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiorina to make &#8216;important&#8217; statement in Pleasanton</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/22/fiorina-to-make-important-statement-in-pleasanton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[goal line productions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tri-Valley Business Council sent out an email blast today inviting folks to listen to former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina make a &#8220;very important&#8221; announcement in Pleasanton on Nov. 6. Will this be her official official entry into the 2010 California senatorial race and a showdown with U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.? (Why Pleasanton? I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange bedfellows in California water wars?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/02/strange-bedfellows-in-california-water-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Congressional Republicans, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and GOP gubernatorial candidate and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner have in common? All advocate a waiver of the Endangered Species Act to help ease California’s water crisis. The Act is the basis on which water pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River has been severely curtailed, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your local electeds react to Obama&#8217;s speech</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/09/your-local-electeds-react-to-obamas-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=8253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First, some resources: Take a look at the Associated Press fact-check on the speech – it’s early, but relatively comprehensive and at least should indicate what questions to ask as the legislation takes shape. For the full text of the president’s speech, click here; for the Republican response, click here. Now, on to some reactions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurses take EFCA fight to DiFi&#8217;s doorstep</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/09/nurses-take-efca-fight-to-difis-doorstep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/09/09/nurses-take-efca-fight-to-difis-doorstep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=8247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1,200 registered nurses paying you a house call? Now that’s some serious health care! The nurses – gathered in San Francisco for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee national convention – will be making a “house call” to the home of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein at 1 p.m. today to demand she become a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rallies in support of health care reform</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/08/31/rallies-in-support-of-health-care-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/08/31/rallies-in-support-of-health-care-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=8061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As members of Congress prepare to return to Washington, D.C., the Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America is putting together events nationwide – including at least two here in the Bay Area – to demonstrate support for health care reform that it says would lower costs, protect patient choice and ensure all Americans have access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican praise for Ted Kennedy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/08/26/republican-praise-for-ted-kennedy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/08/26/republican-praise-for-ted-kennedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edward Kennedy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=7964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve received several dozen e-mailed statements from elected officials, advocacy groups, candidates and pretty much everyone else you can imagine regarding the death of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy. We’ll be carrying an article of reactions in tomorrow’s editions, but for now I thought I’d take a different tack and present here some of the statements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Gore does not approve</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/08/25/al-gore-does-not-approve/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/08/25/al-gore-does-not-approve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=7956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As referenced in today’s article, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer visited Kaiser Permanente’s new Oakland medical building today for a demonstration of Kaiser’s electronic medical record system, a roundtable meeting with Kaiser staff and a news conference. Boxer listened intently as Dr. Patricia Conolly, an internal medicine specialist, walked her through the medical record system, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers&#8217; plea for NUMMI goes unheeded</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/07/23/lawmakers-plea-for-nummi-goes-unheeded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/07/23/lawmakers-plea-for-nummi-goes-unheeded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California’s U.S. Senators, joined by much of the Bay Area’s House delegation, wrote to Toyota today to forestall closure of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, but apparently it&#8217;s too little, too late. NUMMI is a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota; GM announced last month it will withdraw, and [...]]]></description>
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