BREAKING: Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she will retire from Congress at the end of 2024, opening up a California Senate seat for the first time in three decades.
Feinstein's retirement caps off a career focused on advocating for more restrictive gun measures, including championing the assault weapons ban that then-President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994 and pushing for restrictive laws since the ban’s expiration in 2004.
Feinstein has also long been a fierce defender of advancing gay rights and same-sex marriage. She was one of only 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 and celebrated the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage. Feinstein has been known for trying to find common ground with Republicans, sometimes drawing criticism from her party’s more progressive members. She parted from them, for example, on a number of issues, including by opposing single-payer, government-run health care and the Green New Deal climate proposal, which she argued was politically and fiscally unfeasible.
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