Dianne Feinstein News

The source, a retired US diplomat and former assistant secretary of state, said senior Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein of California and Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana have already been briefed ...

The U.S. Forest Service wants to fill more than 500 positions in California in its next round of hiring.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein wants companies suspected of polluting the city's groundwater to pay for safe drinking water while a final cleanup strategy is devised.

With oil prices screaming past $133 a barrel and prices at the gas pump smashing records, lawmakers berated, needled, even sneered at oil company executives Wednesday for trying to present themselves as the ...

Recommendations from a blue ribbon panel on how to ease the threat of another catastrophic wildfire at Lake Tahoe will be presented Tuesday to the governors of California and Nevada and a U.S. senator.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson was interested in granting California's petition to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, but later changed his mind and denied it after ...

Barack Obama inched closer to securing the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, picking up four delegates, including a California congressman who switched his allegiance from Hillary Rodham Clinton.

An ambitious agricultural guest worker plan died with a whimper and not a bang this week, as senators quietly dropped the proposal from an Iraq war spending bill.

STATES shouldn't be burdened with the cost of detaining criminals in the country illegally.

' The Senate dives back into the immigration debate this week, with a possible vote looming on a measure that would give temporary visas to farm workers who are in the United States illegally.

The United States is "stuck" with its war-on-terror detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba because it cannot figure out what to do with prisoners who cannot be charged or set loose, US Defence Secretary ...

Well over 2 million illegal immigrants could gain temporary legal status for up to five years under a measure moving toward Senate consideration as early as today.

“This to me is a fair compromise, just to get something in place”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has changed her tune about using Iraq war spending bills to provide temporary legal status for illegal farmworkers. via Free Republic

Aircraft promised by the federal government to help fight California wildfires won't be available until next year, officials say. via The Post Chronicle

Determined to address what she says is an emergency situation in the U.S. agriculture industry, Sen. via Orange Co. Register

“The industry is not whining or complaining here.”

It wasn't exactly a California vs. auto industry smackdown, but the state's chief enforcer of stringent emissions controls defended those rules Monday before a tough crowd of several hundred automotive ... via Santa Cruz Sentinel

“I can do as I darn well please.”

Is it finally time for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to give up? After Tuesday's North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Sen. via East Valley Tribune

“If they don't like the music I put on or they don't like that I have visitors, they are going to evict me and I have to rent another place that is three times more expensive than I was living in.”

Barbara Gonzel has lived in a two-bedroom duplex in northwest Los Angeles for 13 years, protected from the region's soaring housing costs by the city's rent-control ordinance. via The Modesto Bee

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California is urging the Agriculture Department to conduct an investigation to assess the degree of animal cruelty in the livestock industry. via KDBC

“The only questions about the bill seemed to be based on misinformation”

A key Senate committee on Wednesday handily approved a revised but still ambitious bill to restore the San Joaquin River. via Sacramento Bee Newspaper