Sen. Murray called Feinstein a friend and recalled a giving person who was always willing to help.
“As the nation mourns this tremendous loss, we know how many lives she impacted and how many glass ceilings she shattered along the way,” Schumer said, his voice cracking.
Her death came after a bout of shingles sidelined her for more than two months earlier this year — an absence that drew frustration from her most liberal critics and launched an unsuccessful attempt by Democrats to temporarily replace her on the Senate Judiciary Committee. When she returned to the Senate in May, she was frail and using a wheelchair, voting only occasionally.
Former president Barack Obama also saluted her as “a trailblazer,” and former President Bill Clinton called her a champion “of civil rights and civil liberties, environmental protection and strong national security.”U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., spoke on the Senate floor Friday following the news of Feinstein’s death. She spoke of the California senator reverently, according to a statement from her office.
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., also delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate honoring Feinstein’s legacy Friday and recalled Feinstein fondly, her office reported. “I’ll tell you how she pulled it off: because people knew she was serious about legislating,” Cantwell continued. “She was serious about working across the aisle — and probably in my early days here forged the greatest impression of what working across the aisle was really all about.”
Cantwell and Feinstein were also “fierce advocates for American consumers,” the statement from Cantwell’s office read. They worked together to “advocate for the importance of net neutrality to the FCC, prevent energy price manipulation in the wake of the Enron crisis and more recently through the Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act.
“So I must tell you, I try to look out for women’s rights. I also try to solve problems as I perceive them, with legislation, and reaching out where I can, and working across the aisle,” she said. One of Feinstein’s most significant legislative accomplishments was early in her career, when the Senate approved her amendment to ban manufacturing and sales of certain types of assault weapons as part of a crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. Though the assault weapons ban expired 10 years later and was never renewed or replaced, it was a poignant win after her career had been significantly shaped by gun violence.
Two decades later, after 20 children and six educators were killed in a horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, first-term Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas similarly challenged Feinstein during debate on legislation that would have permanently banned the weapons. Feinstein campaigned jointly with Barbara Boxer, who was running for the state’s other U.S. Senate seat, and both won, benefiting from positive news coverage and excitement over their historic race. California had never had a female U.S. senator, and female candidates and voters had been galvanized by the Supreme Court hearings in which the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Anita Hill about her sexual harassment allegations against nominee Clarence Thomas.
In the years since, Feinstein has continued to push aggressively for eventual declassification of the report. Feinstein closed out confirmation hearings for Justice Amy Coney Barrett with an embrace of Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and a public thanks to him for a job well done. “This has been one of the best set of hearings that I’ve participated in,” Feinstein said at the end of the hearing.
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