[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 400 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 400

Honoring the life and legacy of Dianne Feinstein, the late Senator for 
                        the State of California.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 4, 2023

 Mr. Padilla (for himself, Ms. Butler, Mr. Schumer, Mr. McConnell, Ms. 
Baldwin, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
 Booker, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Braun, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Brown, Mr. Budd, Ms. 
Cantwell, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Carper, Mr. Casey, Mr. Cassidy, 
 Ms. Collins, Mr. Coons, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Cotton, Mr. 
Cramer, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Daines, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, Ms. 
 Ernst, Mr. Fetterman, Mrs. Fischer, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Graham, Mr. 
   Grassley, Mr. Hagerty, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. 
Hickenlooper, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Hoeven, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Johnson, Mr. 
 Kaine, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. King, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Lankford, 
Mr. Lee, Mr. Lujan, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Markey, Mr. Marshall, 
 Mr. Menendez, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Moran, Mr. Mullin, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. 
 Murphy, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Paul, Mr. Peters, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
Ricketts, Mr. Risch, Mr. Romney, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Rubio, Mr. 
 Sanders, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Schmitt, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Scott of 
South Carolina, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Sinema, Ms. Smith, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. 
 Sullivan, Mr. Tester, Mr. Thune, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Van 
Hollen, Mr. Vance, Mr. Warner, Mr. Warnock, Ms. Warren, Mr. Welch, Mr. 
    Whitehouse, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Young) submitted the 
        following resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Honoring the life and legacy of Dianne Feinstein, the late Senator for 
                        the State of California.

Whereas Dianne Feinstein was born on June 22, 1933, in San Francisco, 
        California;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein graduated from Convent of the Sacred Heart High School 
        in 1951 and from Stanford University in 1955;
Whereas, while at Stanford University, Dianne Feinstein established the first 
        chapter of Young Democrats and was elected student body vice president, 
        the highest office a woman could hold at that time;
Whereas, in 1960, California Governor Pat Brown, having read a paper about 
        criminal justice that Dianne Feinstein wrote as a fellow at the Coro 
        Foundation in San Francisco, California, named her to the California 
        Women's Board of Terms and Parole, the first position in public service 
        she would hold;
Whereas, on November 5, 1969, Dianne Feinstein was first elected to the San 
        Francisco Board of Supervisors and, having received the most votes, 
        became the first female President of the Board;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein became the first female mayor of San Francisco, 
        California, on November 27, 1978, a position to which she was 
        subsequently re-elected twice;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein, in the face of tremendous personal loss, demonstrated 
        great strength and leadership in helping unite and heal San Francisco, 
        California, in the aftermath of the assassinations of Mayor George 
        Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, after the White Night riots and the 
        Jonestown massacre, through the AIDS crisis, and through multiple 
        assassination attempts on her own life;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein saved the famed cable cars of San Francisco, 
        California, and secured funding to rebuild the system in time for the 
        1984 Democratic National Convention held in San Francisco;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein became the first woman to represent the State of 
        California in the Senate when she was elected on November 3, 1992, in 
        what became known as the ``Year of the Woman'', and, with former Senator 
        Barbara Boxer, formed the first pair of female Senators to represent any 
        State in the history of the United States;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein was re-elected to the Senate by the people of the State 
        of California 5 more times, including in 2012 when she received the most 
        popular votes for any Senate candidate in the history of the United 
        States;
Whereas, while serving in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein became--

    (1) one of the first women to serve on the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the Senate, and the first woman to lead her party on the Committee;

    (2) the first woman to chair the Committee on Rules and Administration 
of the Senate;

    (3) the first woman to preside over a presidential inauguration; and

    (4) the first woman to chair the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
the Senate;

Whereas, in response to numerous tragic acts of gun violence in the State of 
        California and across the United States, Dianne Feinstein became a 
        leading proponent of efforts to address gun violence, including through 
        the passage of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use 
        Protection Act (commonly referred to as the ``Federal Assault Weapons 
        Ban'') (subtitle A of title XI of Public Law 103-322; 108 Stat. 1996);
Whereas the singular leadership and determination of Dianne Feinstein led to the 
        enactment of legislation to preserve millions of acres of land in the 
        State of California, from the redwoods of Headwaters Forest to San 
        Francisco Bay and Lake Tahoe;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein devoted particular attention to protecting the 
        California desert and was the driving force behind the establishment of 
        Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, the Mojave 
        National Preserve, the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National 
        Monument, the Mojave Trails National Monument, the Sand to Snow National 
        Monument, and the Castle Mountains National Monument;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein demonstrated incredible courage and tenacity in 
        spearheading the 5-year, 6,700-page report by the Select Committee on 
        Intelligence of the Senate on the Detention and Interrogation Program of 
        the Central Intelligence Agency, and in the enactment of subsequent 
        legislation with former Senator John McCain to prohibit the future use 
        of interrogation techniques described in that report;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein led congressional efforts to secure marriage equality, 
        end LGBTQ discrimination, defend reproductive rights, combat violence 
        against women, protect victims of trafficking, reform our health care 
        system, provide immigration benefits for agricultural workers, increase 
        fuel economy standards, improve the safety of personal care products, 
        address nuclear waste storage, fund breast cancer research, counter 
        illicit narcotics, enhance cybersecurity information sharing, increase 
        resources to fight wildfires, and manage the water supply system of the 
        State of California;
Whereas, on March 28, 2021, Dianne Feinstein became the longest-serving Senator 
        to represent the State of California;
Whereas, on November 5, 2022, Dianne Feinstein became the longest-serving female 
        Senator in the history of the United States;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein never truly stopped being Mayor of her beloved San 
        Francisco, California;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein inspired generations of women to break barriers and 
        seek positions of leadership, to find common ground in order to get 
        things done for the people they represent, and to serve with grace, 
        strength, and integrity;
Whereas Dianne Feinstein was a beloved sister, wife, mother, and grandmother; 
        and
Whereas the State of California and the United States have lost a trailblazing 
        lawmaker and dedicated public servant: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That--
            (1) the Senate--
                    (A) has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret 
                the announcement of the death of Dianne Feinstein, the 
                late Senator for the State of California; and
                    (B) respectfully requests that the Secretary of the 
                Senate communicate this resolution to the House of 
                Representatives and transmit an enrolled copy thereof 
                to the family of Dianne Feinstein; and
            (2) when the Senate adjourns today, it stands adjourned as 
        a further mark of respect to the memory of the late Dianne 
        Feinstein.
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