{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/reed-floor-statement-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-us-senator-dianne-feinstein", "Reed Floor Statement on the Life & Legacy of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein", "2023-09-29", "2023", "2023-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "RI", "Jack Reed", "R000122", "www.reed.senate.gov", "jackreed", "https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases", "scraper", "VIDEO: Senator Reed speaks on the Senate floor about Senator Feinstein\u2019s remarkable legacy\n\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, after the passing of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 90, the longest-serving female U.S. Senator in American history, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) delivered a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate saluting her remarkable life and legacy:\n\nSENATOR REED: Madame President, I rise to pay tribute to our colleague, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who we all know passed away this morning.\n\nAs California\u2019s senior Senator and the longest-serving woman senator ever, Senator Feinstein was trailblazer. Everyone has made that point and it is a true, accurate, and compelling point.\n\nAnd representing the country\u2019s most populous state for over three decades, she occupied the national stage. And for many people inside and outside this chamber, she became the archetypal senator: prepared, professional, pragmatic, and unfailing civil.\n\nCalifornians rewarded her hard work by voting for her by wider and wider margins.\n\nAnd he fought hard for the things she believed in \u2013 and very often successfully \u2013 but she never bullied or belittled those who took a contrary position.\n\nHer achievements are many:\n\nThe enactment of the federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994.\n\nThe six-year review of the CIA\u2019s detention and interrogation program, which prompted significant reform in the Intelligence community.\n\nShe was a leader in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.\n\nAnd, she delivered for the people of California. Enacting laws to protect public lands and natural treasures. Doing the hard work to bring stakeholders together to resolve thorny\n\nissues and complex environmental challenges in her home state.\n\nAnd she led on national environmental issues, including legislation to improve the fuel economy of automobiles.\n\nI had the privilege and pleasure to get to know her. We were both members the Aspen Strategy Group\u2026\n\nTo listen to her insights, to listen to her analysis was incredibly important to me\u2026\n\nHer hospitality, her friendship, and her decency was just so apparent there as it was here in the United States Senate.\n\nAs we look back, Madame President, the simple fact is that Senator Feinstein influenced every major policy challenge that this body and this nation has faced over 30 years.\n\nWith her voice, her vote, with her counsel, with her wisdom and with her unfailing commitment to the people of California and the people of the United States. She literally never gave up. She never stopped serving.\n\nAnd she is someone that will be remembered truly as one of the greatest United States Senators in the history of this country.\n\nIt was a privilege to serve with her.\n\nAnd on this day I wish her family and all her loved ones the comfort of knowing what an extraordinary woman, what an extraordinary senator Dianne Feinstein was.\n\nWith that, Madame President, I yield the floor.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:37:48Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/releases/reed-floor-statement-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-us-senator-dianne-feinstein"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9169150143861771, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}