Dianne Feinstein Research Paper

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The oldest currently serving US Senator, Dianne Feinstein, has done her share of leading our Senators and fighting to keep our country safe and free of crime. Feinstein is a member of the Democratic Party, as well as the former thirty-eighth mayor of San Francisco. Eight years after being elected into the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1970, Feinstein served as the board’s first female president. The assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk caused Feinstein to succeed as mayor of San Francisco in 1978. While Feinstein served as San Francisco’s first female mayor she renovated the cable car system and oversaw the 1984 Democratic National Convention. Although her campaign failed while running for state governor …show more content…

She also served on the San Francisco mayor’s committee on crime and the committee on adult detention in 1968. She became the first female president for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors a year later, and was reelected for two additional terms because of her success and popularity. In 1978 after mayor George Moscone and a member of the board Harvey Milk were assassinated, Feinstein decided to run for mayor. Feinstein won in 1979 due to her promises of non-tolerate legal and social reforms, and was reelected in 1983 for a second four-year term. City and State magazine named her “America’s Most Effective Mayor” in 1987 (Leiman). While she was the mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein’s main concern was public safety. She cut the emergency police response down to be four times faster than before she was in office. While in office, budgeting correctly and raising local economy were Feinstein’s focus. She made sure the city’s budget was balanced every year she was in office and developed relationships with major trade countries. San Francisco had also undergone innovations to improve its worth. The cable car system was rebuilt, city streets were repaved and the sewer system was upgraded. Feinstein wanted to make San Francisco a cleaner, nicer, and steadily flowing …show more content…

Her amendment prohibiting health insurance discrimination on the basis of genetic information is now law as part of the Kassebaum-Kennedy health bill. She also worked to pass and increase the funding for the Ryan White AIDS Care Act. As cochairman of the Senate Cancer Coalition, she presided over hearings that helped to win much-needed funds for cancer research at the National Cancer Institute and for a study by the National Institutes of Health on the high incidence of breast cancer rates in the San Francisco area (Leiman). Feinstein credits the Affordable Care Act for helping her citizens be in a better place health wise. She has worked to protect children from public health threats, lowering the cost of health insurance premiums, and helps research developing a cure for cancer and other diseases and illnesses. I have noticed Dianne Feinstein is very generous. She is looking to keep the citizens she is accountable of safe, healthy and cultured. When California is in a time of need Feinstein donates money, starts charities, or makes a document or organization that can help out the people who cannot help themselves. Feinstein does not seem corrupt, I am sure there are instances where she does what is best for the people and not necessarily what the people want of her, but she does what she thinks is

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