[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 163 (Wednesday, October 4, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4921-S4922]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                      Remembering Dianne Feinstein

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, tomorrow, the U.S. Senate will close in 
observance of the memorial of our late friend and colleague Senator 
Dianne Feinstein. It will be my honor--a sad, tearful, but great 
honor--to speak tomorrow at my friend Dianne's memorial. And I thank 
all my colleagues who will be in attendance. I know that it would mean 
the world to her for her colleagues to join in this one last good-bye.
  I will have more to say tomorrow, but, over the past few days, I have 
been coming back to the same thought again and again: Dianne Feinstein 
was a public servant of uncommon integrity. Many of us here try our 
best to pursue the common good, but Dianne was on another level. When 
she thought something was right, when she had a cause she believed in, 
she pursued it until the end, until her cause endured.
  I got to see it for myself when she championed the Assault Weapons 
Ban. The NRA launched horrible, vitriolic, arguably chauvinistic 
attacks, but she remained undeterred. She knew her cause was just, and 
she persisted, and, in the end, her cause won the day.
  It will be a long, long time until the Senate sees someone as 
consequential as Dianne Feinstein again.

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