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Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein is the senior U.S. senator from California. She was the first woman to chair the Senate Intelligence Committee (2009-2015), where she led a six-year review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program and a bipartisan investigation of the Benghazi attacks. She is also a longtime member of the Judiciary, Appropriations and Rules committees.