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Among \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article65069552.html\" target=\"_blank\">the loudest voices\u003c/a> is the powerful Westlands Water District, a longtime Feinstein ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve watched ... the outrage with the government action that put the population of Flint [Michigan] at risk,\" said Westlands General Manager Tom Birmingham at \u003ca href=\"http://www.capitalpress.com/California/20160225/california-water-districts-appeal-to-fractured-congress-for-drought-relief\" target=\"_blank\">a House committee hearing in February\u003c/a>. \"But where’s the outrage with government policies that have created zero water supplies for communities in the San Joaquin Valley?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Feinstein \u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=5121D013-CB60-4245-84F1-5142093BDE03\" target=\"_blank\">appealed directly\u003c/a> to the responsible agencies to increase pumping, saying there was little evidence that the affected species, including nearly extinct Delta smelt and endangered winter-run chinook salmon, would be harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterdeeply.org/articles/2016/03/9853/rain-falls-tensions-rise-water/\" target=\"_blank\">agencies responded\u003c/a> that pumping was \u003ca href=\"http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kpoole/californias_water_projects_are.html\" target=\"_blank\">already at the limit\u003c/a> allowed under court-approved biological opinions developed under the Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her letter to the president, Feinstein largely repeated her earlier criticism of Delta pumping operations, which she suggested are allowing massive quantities of water to flow out to sea that should be captured. She called for development of more flexible rules for deciding when pumping can be ramped up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are real-world consequences to the decisions being made in the Delta,\" Feinstein wrote. \"Sixty-nine communities in the southern San Joaquin Valley reported significant water supply and quality issues. And land is caving, bridges collapsing, as a result of overdrawn ground wells and subsidence. That’s why we need to make sure we’re using every possible tool to make the right choices. Basing pumping decisions on better science and real-time monitoring is the least we can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand a little of how the pumping limits work, it's necessary to consider how water flows in river channels near the twin pumping facilities -- state and federal -- in the southern Delta. Most of the water the facilities move is lifted into canals headed for San Luis Reservoir near Los Banos and points beyond. The pumps are so powerful they reverse the natural flow in a pair of channels called Old River and Middle River. That reverse flow, measured in negative cubic feet per second (cfs), can draw fish toward the pumps, cause them to get lost in the maze of Delta water channels and make them more vulnerable to predators. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'When the senator ... calls on the president to order increased water exports from the Delta, she's really denying the science that's there and the agency expertise that's determined how much water could be exported in this year.'\u003ccite>Jon Rosenfield,\u003cbr>The Bay Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For the past six weeks, the pumps have been pulling water at a rate that, while well below capacity, has resulted in an Old Middle River flow of -5,000 cubic feet per second. Now, enter concerns about the Delta smelt, a species that biologists say is \u003ca href=\"https://californiawaterblog.com/2015/03/18/prepare-for-extinction-of-delta-smelt/\" target=\"_blank\">close to extinction\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Smelt Working Group, which includes scientists from a half dozen state and federal agencies, says the presence of smelt larvae in the Delta now may necessitate slowing down the pumps to reduce the negative flow to -2,500 cfs or less. A formal determination from the Fish and Wildlife Service is expected Friday morning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Rosenfield, a conservation biologist with The Bay Institute, a San Francisco-based environmental group, said Thursday that Feinstein's letter virtually ignores the close, ongoing scientific scrutiny being brought to bear on Delta pumping operations and their impact on threatened species. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The senator has a long record of calling for the management of California resource to follow the science and to protect endangered species and our San Francisco Bay estuary,\" Rosenfield said. \"But when she calls on the president to order increased water exports from the Delta, she's really denying the science that's there and the agency expertise that's determined how much water could be exported in this year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield also challenges the often-repeated claim that California is allowing massive volumes of water to \"waste\" through the Delta to the Pacific Ocean. He says state and federal statistics show the lion's share of runoff from major storms through the end of February was captured for human use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Between storage in upstream reservoirs, diversions, and exports from the Delta, people have captured between 65 and 75 percent of the runoff from the three major storm events that occurred between October and the end of February,\" Rosenfield said in a water season update earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield noted that just 25 percent of the natural flow of the San Joaquin River had made it to the Delta during the current water year, the rest having been dammed or diverted by water-rights holders upstream. He said the low flows in the San Joaquin -- which has also been affected by lower-than-average rain and snow in the river's watershed -- have played a central role in limiting exports from the Delta pumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below: The full text of Sen. Feinstein's letter to President Obama:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Honorable Barack Obama\u003cbr>\nThe White House\u003cbr>\n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.\u003cbr>\nWashington, D.C. 20500\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear Mr. President:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask you to direct the Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Marine Fisheries Service to maximize pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the maximum extent allowed under the Endangered Species Act and biological opinions. Water flows in the Sacramento River are the highest they have been in four years. Just last week, flows in the Sacramento were as high as 76,000 cubic feet per second. We’ve only seen flows that high twice in the past ten years, and not once during this drought. Yet the Bureau of Reclamation and Fish and Wildlife Service are now considering reducing pumping due to concerns about larval smelt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these high flows, rather than pumping as much water as possible without undue harm to the smelt, pumping levels remained constant for the past month (see Chart B below). Coupled with the fact that only three individual smelt were caught at the pumps this year, and that the most recent trawls revealed no Delta smelt in the south Delta, it seems to me that the agencies operate the system in a manner that may be contrary to the available data, culled from what is already a limited monitoring regime. I understand that the biological opinions impose a ceiling of -5,000 cubic feet per second, but the agencies have the discretion to exercise at least some flexibility to pump above that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put this all in context, between January 1 and March 6 last year, 1.5 million acre feet of water flowed through the Delta and 745,000 acre feet were pumped out. During the same period this year, 5.5 million acre feet of water flowed through the Delta, but only 852,000 acre feet were pumped out (see Chart A below). If we can’t increase pumping during an El Niño year, then when else can we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agencies have also put California and the communities that depend on this water in a catch-22: Pumping is reduced when there are concerns about the presence of smelt caught as far away as 17 miles from the pumps. Yet agencies will also reduce pumping due to the absence of smelt, based on the idea that historically low smelt populations make detection difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that this year’s El Niño has highlighted a fundamental problem with our water system: A dogmatic adherence to a rigid set of operating criteria that continues to handcuff our ability to rebuild our reserves. We need a more nimble system. That’s why I included $150 million the past two years in the Energy and Water budget—so that decisions would be based on real-time data, rather than relying on intuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are real-world consequences to the decisions being made in the Delta. 69 communities in the Southern San Joaquin Valley reported significant water supply and quality issues. And land is caving, bridges collapsing, as a result of overdrawn ground wells and subsidence. That’s why we need to make sure we’re using every possible tool to make the right choices. Basing pumping decisions on better science and real-time monitoring is the least we can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein\u003cbr>\nUnited States Senator\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Correction: The original post incorrectly referred to the names of channels that experience negative flows during Delta pumping operations. The correct names are Old and Middle rivers, not Old Middle River. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated, 7:15 p.m. Thursday. This post contains \u003ca href=\"#correction\">a correction\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Dianne Feinstein wants President Obama to order an increase in water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms and cities to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter released Thursday, Feinstein expressed frustration that more water isn't being pumped south from the Delta despite an increase in flows down the Sacramento River triggered by recent storms. She blamed the agencies in charge of overseeing court-ordered actions to protect the Delta smelt and other imperiled fish species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She decried \"a dogmatic adherence to a rigid set of operating criteria that continues to handcuff our ability to rebuild\" the state's water reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There are real-world consequences to the decisions being made in the Delta. ... That’s why we need to make sure we’re using every possible tool to make the right choices. Basing pumping decisions on better science and real-time monitoring is the least we can do.'\u003ccite>Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A dozen Republican members of California's House delegation sent \u003ca href=\"https://kevinmccarthy.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/california-republicans-call-on-white-house-to-act-on-drought\" target=\"_blank\">a separate letter\u003c/a> calling on Obama to act. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We ... need specific leadership from our chief executive,\" said the letter released by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield. \"That specific leadership is simple: a clear message to the relevant federal agencies to increase – not decrease – pumping over and above\" levels that have prevailed in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exports from a federal pumping facility near Tracy are managed by three agencies -- the Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service -- responsible for ensuring exports adhere to limits set in court-ordered plans to protect several endangered and threatened fish species. Those species include Delta smelt, Sacramento River winter- and spring-run chinook salmon and green sturgeon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressional push to ship more water south is part of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.agalert.com/story/?id=9443\" target=\"_blank\">tide of criticism\u003c/a> from San Joaquin Valley farm interests that more water isn't being intercepted for human use after years of drought. Among \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article65069552.html\" target=\"_blank\">the loudest voices\u003c/a> is the powerful Westlands Water District, a longtime Feinstein ally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve watched ... the outrage with the government action that put the population of Flint [Michigan] at risk,\" said Westlands General Manager Tom Birmingham at \u003ca href=\"http://www.capitalpress.com/California/20160225/california-water-districts-appeal-to-fractured-congress-for-drought-relief\" target=\"_blank\">a House committee hearing in February\u003c/a>. \"But where’s the outrage with government policies that have created zero water supplies for communities in the San Joaquin Valley?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Feinstein \u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=5121D013-CB60-4245-84F1-5142093BDE03\" target=\"_blank\">appealed directly\u003c/a> to the responsible agencies to increase pumping, saying there was little evidence that the affected species, including nearly extinct Delta smelt and endangered winter-run chinook salmon, would be harmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterdeeply.org/articles/2016/03/9853/rain-falls-tensions-rise-water/\" target=\"_blank\">agencies responded\u003c/a> that pumping was \u003ca href=\"http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kpoole/californias_water_projects_are.html\" target=\"_blank\">already at the limit\u003c/a> allowed under court-approved biological opinions developed under the Endangered Species Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her letter to the president, Feinstein largely repeated her earlier criticism of Delta pumping operations, which she suggested are allowing massive quantities of water to flow out to sea that should be captured. She called for development of more flexible rules for deciding when pumping can be ramped up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are real-world consequences to the decisions being made in the Delta,\" Feinstein wrote. \"Sixty-nine communities in the southern San Joaquin Valley reported significant water supply and quality issues. And land is caving, bridges collapsing, as a result of overdrawn ground wells and subsidence. That’s why we need to make sure we’re using every possible tool to make the right choices. Basing pumping decisions on better science and real-time monitoring is the least we can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand a little of how the pumping limits work, it's necessary to consider how water flows in river channels near the twin pumping facilities -- state and federal -- in the southern Delta. Most of the water the facilities move is lifted into canals headed for San Luis Reservoir near Los Banos and points beyond. The pumps are so powerful they reverse the natural flow in a pair of channels called Old River and Middle River. That reverse flow, measured in negative cubic feet per second (cfs), can draw fish toward the pumps, cause them to get lost in the maze of Delta water channels and make them more vulnerable to predators. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'When the senator ... calls on the president to order increased water exports from the Delta, she's really denying the science that's there and the agency expertise that's determined how much water could be exported in this year.'\u003ccite>Jon Rosenfield,\u003cbr>The Bay Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For the past six weeks, the pumps have been pulling water at a rate that, while well below capacity, has resulted in an Old Middle River flow of -5,000 cubic feet per second. Now, enter concerns about the Delta smelt, a species that biologists say is \u003ca href=\"https://californiawaterblog.com/2015/03/18/prepare-for-extinction-of-delta-smelt/\" target=\"_blank\">close to extinction\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Smelt Working Group, which includes scientists from a half dozen state and federal agencies, says the presence of smelt larvae in the Delta now may necessitate slowing down the pumps to reduce the negative flow to -2,500 cfs or less. A formal determination from the Fish and Wildlife Service is expected Friday morning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Rosenfield, a conservation biologist with The Bay Institute, a San Francisco-based environmental group, said Thursday that Feinstein's letter virtually ignores the close, ongoing scientific scrutiny being brought to bear on Delta pumping operations and their impact on threatened species. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The senator has a long record of calling for the management of California resource to follow the science and to protect endangered species and our San Francisco Bay estuary,\" Rosenfield said. \"But when she calls on the president to order increased water exports from the Delta, she's really denying the science that's there and the agency expertise that's determined how much water could be exported in this year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield also challenges the often-repeated claim that California is allowing massive volumes of water to \"waste\" through the Delta to the Pacific Ocean. He says state and federal statistics show the lion's share of runoff from major storms through the end of February was captured for human use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Between storage in upstream reservoirs, diversions, and exports from the Delta, people have captured between 65 and 75 percent of the runoff from the three major storm events that occurred between October and the end of February,\" Rosenfield said in a water season update earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenfield noted that just 25 percent of the natural flow of the San Joaquin River had made it to the Delta during the current water year, the rest having been dammed or diverted by water-rights holders upstream. He said the low flows in the San Joaquin -- which has also been affected by lower-than-average rain and snow in the river's watershed -- have played a central role in limiting exports from the Delta pumps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below: The full text of Sen. Feinstein's letter to President Obama:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Honorable Barack Obama\u003cbr>\nThe White House\u003cbr>\n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.\u003cbr>\nWashington, D.C. 20500\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dear Mr. President:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask you to direct the Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Marine Fisheries Service to maximize pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the maximum extent allowed under the Endangered Species Act and biological opinions. Water flows in the Sacramento River are the highest they have been in four years. Just last week, flows in the Sacramento were as high as 76,000 cubic feet per second. We’ve only seen flows that high twice in the past ten years, and not once during this drought. Yet the Bureau of Reclamation and Fish and Wildlife Service are now considering reducing pumping due to concerns about larval smelt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these high flows, rather than pumping as much water as possible without undue harm to the smelt, pumping levels remained constant for the past month (see Chart B below). Coupled with the fact that only three individual smelt were caught at the pumps this year, and that the most recent trawls revealed no Delta smelt in the south Delta, it seems to me that the agencies operate the system in a manner that may be contrary to the available data, culled from what is already a limited monitoring regime. I understand that the biological opinions impose a ceiling of -5,000 cubic feet per second, but the agencies have the discretion to exercise at least some flexibility to pump above that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put this all in context, between January 1 and March 6 last year, 1.5 million acre feet of water flowed through the Delta and 745,000 acre feet were pumped out. During the same period this year, 5.5 million acre feet of water flowed through the Delta, but only 852,000 acre feet were pumped out (see Chart A below). If we can’t increase pumping during an El Niño year, then when else can we?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agencies have also put California and the communities that depend on this water in a catch-22: Pumping is reduced when there are concerns about the presence of smelt caught as far away as 17 miles from the pumps. Yet agencies will also reduce pumping due to the absence of smelt, based on the idea that historically low smelt populations make detection difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I believe that this year’s El Niño has highlighted a fundamental problem with our water system: A dogmatic adherence to a rigid set of operating criteria that continues to handcuff our ability to rebuild our reserves. We need a more nimble system. That’s why I included $150 million the past two years in the Energy and Water budget—so that decisions would be based on real-time data, rather than relying on intuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are real-world consequences to the decisions being made in the Delta. 69 communities in the Southern San Joaquin Valley reported significant water supply and quality issues. And land is caving, bridges collapsing, as a result of overdrawn ground wells and subsidence. That’s why we need to make sure we’re using every possible tool to make the right choices. Basing pumping decisions on better science and real-time monitoring is the least we can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sincerely,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dianne Feinstein\u003cbr>\nUnited States Senator\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And as to the law that was passed by the Board of Supervisors in 2013 and signed by Mayor Lee, to the letter of the law, we have been unfailing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the situation with Mr. Sanchez really spotlights ... in my opinion, the ineptitude of ICE. ... This suspect, the defendant, was brought to us on a 20-year-old warrant for a marijuana possession charge. The city doesn't even really prosecute on marijuana. And that could have been avoided, I think, if ICE would have been serious about deporting him for what would have been ... the sixth time. Somebody like Mr. Sanchez, who has been deported and illegally reentered a number of times, met the criteria for their first tier and [ICE] could have just acted, side-stepping San Francisco. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I agree that we should not be harboring criminals ... but the truth of the matter, the truth of the matter, is that a local law that has been enacted, signed by the mayor, affirmed by federal court decision is that a detainer is not a legal document. And ICE has been made well aware of this, and that what we require is a court order or a warrant. ... ICE exists on Sansome Street, downtown San Francisco. They knew he was here well over two weeks beyond his release date. 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We should focus on deporting convicted criminals, not setting them loose on our streets. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I am looking at whether additional federal legislation may be necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have written a letter to Mayor Lee suggesting he participate in DHS’s Priority Enforcement Program, as the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed to do in a recently adopted resolution. This program will enable federal law enforcement to better cooperate with state and local counterparts to take custody of individuals who pose a danger to public safety before they are released.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barbara Boxer, California senator, \u003ca href=\"https://www.boxer.senate.gov/press/release/boxer-statement-on-detention-policies-following-tragic-death-of-kathryn-steinle/\" target=\"_blank\">written statement\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For decades, I have supported deporting violent criminals, and I have always believed that sanctuary should not be given to felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have reached out to Governor Brown to ask whether state law was followed in this case, and if so, whether the law needs to be strengthened to ensure that a tragedy like this never happens again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential hopeful, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/07/politics/hillary-clinton-cnn-interview/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">in an interview with CNN\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The city made a mistake, not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The fatal shooting of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle on July 1 at San Francisco's Pier 14 has drawn national attention and unleashed extensive debate over immigration. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez -- who has a long list of felonies and deportations -- has been charged with murder. He entered a not guilty plea Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what some politicians are saying about the case:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ed Lee, mayor of San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=846&recordid=913&returnURL=%2findex.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">written statement\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There has been much discussion about San Francisco’s Sanctuary City Policy in the aftermath of Kathryn’s death. Let me be clear: San Francisco’s Sanctuary City Policy protects residents regardless of immigration status and is not intended to protect repeat, serious and violent felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our City’s policy helps immigrant and limited-English-speaking communities where sometimes people fear and mistrust the criminal justice system. We want people to report crimes, we want children of undocumented immigrants to attend school, and we want families to get access to much needed social services without fear of their City government reporting them to Federal authorities. As the son of immigrant parents, I want others to know, San Francisco is a City where we protect the well-being and success of all families, regardless of immigration status.in an interv\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I said in 2013, we must protect both civil liberties and uphold public safety. Which is why, at the time, I promised to veto any legislation that completely eliminated the Sheriff’s ability to make a case-by-case determination about honoring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers. Our sanctuary policies should not create a safe harbor for convicted, violent felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am concerned about the circumstances that led to the release of Mr. Sanchez. 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They just didn't follow through.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dianne Feinstein, California senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=12df46ad-0787-4083-934b-857b64ed6d23\" target=\"_blank\">written statement\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I have been looking into the circumstances related to the tragic killing of Kathryn Steinle. The suspect has been convicted of 10 crimes, including four drug felonies, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement had filed what is known as a detainer asking the San Francisco Sheriff's Department to hold Mr. Sanchez for deportation. The Sheriff’s Department failed to respond to that detainer and did not notify ICE when the individual was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I strongly believe that an undocumented individual, convicted of multiple felonies and with a detainer request from ICE, should not have been released. We should focus on deporting convicted criminals, not setting them loose on our streets. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I am looking at whether additional federal legislation may be necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have written a letter to Mayor Lee suggesting he participate in DHS’s Priority Enforcement Program, as the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed to do in a recently adopted resolution. 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Last week, we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/18/jonestown-cult-massacre-remembered-35-years-later/\" target=\"_blank\">took note\u003c/a> of the 35th anniversary of the mass killings at Jonestown. Just mentioning that name can reawaken the horror of that 1978 episode: the tension at the People's Temple settlement in Guyana as Congressman Leo Ryan arrived to meet with leader Jim Jones and investigate conditions there; how some Jonestown residents menaced Ryan and the journalists who accompanied him; how Ryan and others in his party were shot and killed as they prepared to fly out of the jungle; and finally, how Jones led the more than 900 settlement residents in a death ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Remembrance of Moscone-Milk Assassinations\u003c/aside>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left !important; font-size: 12pt;\">Nov. 27, 2013\u003cbr>\n4:30 p.m.: Remembrance at City Hall\u003cbr>\n5:30 p.m.: March to the Castro\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Jonestown overshadowed a political drama that was playing out in San Francisco at the time — the resignation of a freshman member of the Board of Supervisors, Dan White. A former firefighter and police officer from the Outer Mission, he'd been elected in the city's first district elections in November 1977. But just a year later, he resigned the position, only to change his mind and ask to get the job back. Mayor George Moscone at first seemed willing to reappoint White to the board, then decided not to. One of those who reportedly urged Moscone not to reappoint White was another first-year supervisor, Harvey Milk, a gay-rights crusader and the first openly gay man elected to public office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-five years ago today, I was taking someone over to the old Greyhound station on 7th Street, just south of Market. It was midday, and as we walked up Mission Street, an older man, a guy who looked like he might be living on the street, stopped us and shouted, \"They shot the mayor! They shot the mayor and the supervisor!\" The first thing I thought of was Jonestown. What the guy was saying sounded so crazy and scary, I told him to get away from me and continued on to Greyhound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus station had those old \"TV chairs\" — molded plastic chairs with miniature black-and-white televisions built in. If you fed the TV a quarter, you could watch for maybe 15 minutes. The first thing I noticed when we got to Greyhound was that a lot of those TVs were in use and almost everyone was watching the same thing, a report on the shooting of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. I don't completely trust my memory on this — I'm not sure this moment was shown on live TV or not — but I think I started watching just as Dianne Feinstein, the president of the Board of Supervisors, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MnY59V0exw\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> that the mayor and the supervisor had been killed and that Dan White was the suspect. People at the bus station gasped in disbelief, just as they did at City Hall, where Feinstein was making the announcement. That footage is still wrenching to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that moment, the entire city seemed to be unhinged and crazy. And the story would become more incredible with White's \"diminished capacity\" defense based in part on his poor diet; his acquittal on murder charges (he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and served just over five years in prison); the rage and riot that followed the verdict; and White's eventual \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/22/us/dan-white-killer-of-san-francisco-mayor-a-suicide.html\" target=\"_blank\">suicide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, something other than shock and grief emerged from the darkness of that day: a determination that Milk's legacy should live. And it has. In death, Milk's stature has grown to that of a globally recognized champion of human rights. In San Francisco decades later, one of Moscone's successors as mayor declared same-sex marriage legal, launching a movement that's seen the gay marriage become the law in 16 states and the District of Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my newsroom colleagues, Kat Snow, recalled earlier today that the determination to turn the tragedy of the Milk-Moscone murder into a movement goes back to the hours after the killings. The night of Nov. 27, 1978, thousands of people marched from the Castro to a vigil at San Francisco City Hall. One of those in attendance was singer Holly Near, who had composed a song in response to the killing, \"Singing for Our Lives.\" That song became an anthem for human rights campaigners worldwide. Below, Near performs the song with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus at the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the assassinations. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90584\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 237px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/01/sen-dianne-feinstein-on-sequester-california-will-suffer-most/feinstein/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90584\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/feinstein-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dianne Feinstein (official photo). \" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90584\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (official photo).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Scott Shafer talked with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein this morning about the politics of automatic federal budget cuts taking effect today–“the sequester,” in Beltway speak–and the impact those reductions will have in California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California, overwhelmingly, is affected the most,” Feinstein said. “We’re almost double anyone else.” She then went through the litany of impacts the sequester cuts will have here, including furloughs for 64,000 civilian employees of the Defense Department and the loss of as many as 2,000 regular and special-education positions in the state’s public schools. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about the education cuts,” she said–citing an $87.6 million loss in federal support for schools with a high proportion of low-income students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Feinstein interview–and a full report on how the sequester may affect the lives of the state’s 38 million people–is featured on \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> this afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s Scott Shafer’s interview with Sen. Feinstein, followed by a full transcript:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/feinstein-shafer.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the interview\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/feinstein-shafer.mp3]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> “So, the sequester, this thing as you well know, it was meant to be kind of a poison pill; built to fail, force negotiations, no one would ever settle for this in the end. So what happened, how did we get to this point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dianne Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Well, I think if you appoint people to this kind of committee who won’t compromise, you don’t get compromise. Because compromise really means that you’ve got to give on certain things to get on other things. That just didn’t happen. I wasn’t there, I don’t know the details, but I think that’s a fair comment. I think people didn’t realize it, and that sequester was put in there to kind of urge them on to settlement. But clearly it didn’t, and I think it’s a demonstration of the hard edge of polarization and partisanship in the Senate.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Some feel that, here we are it’s at the last minute and just today the leaders are sitting down with the President. Do you feel that there was enough of a sense of urgency leading up to this day? Shouldn’t there have been more discussions, more meetings? Why wait until the last minute; was that a mistake?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “I think because there was no signal, no sign, no indication that anyone was going to compromise, I think it’s the same thing. Now, we had a bill, it cut back the amount of sequestration, it took the cuts from the ag bill that the house wouldn’t pass, which are twenty-nine billion dollars, and use those as an offset, and it invoked the Buffett rule: that people who earned over a million dollars would be required to pay at least thirty percent income tax, which is not unreasonable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “It must be incredibly difficult to work in an environment where people just don’t trust each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Yeah it is. And see, what happens is, we don’t have an everyday working relationship with the House. So what you get back and forth are sound bites, and the sound bites that get the press are all the negative ones. There are very few sound bites that come through, that bounce across the capital that have positive suggestions in them. Having said that, I know there are people that want to work out a compromise. I believe that a compromise depends on some long term, and I stress that word, entitlement reform. In return for the closure, at the very least, of certain tax loopholes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “There are some people that suggest that maybe the Democratic Party, really at least enough on the left, they’ve wanted big cuts in the defense budget, and then on the right, they’ve wanted these big budget cuts. Will there be enough in the middle to get something done, as opposed to letting things…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “I can’t say. I know I feel that way. I know there are others in my party that feel that way, in the Senate, and I know that there are some in the Republican party who feel that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “That way being…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein: \u003c/strong>“I’ve talked to some, and I intend to pursue it. I didn’t want to do it until we get through the two measures that were voted on yesterday. As usual, we had two members that voted for the Republican proposal, and the other proposal, and somebody correct me if I’m wrong, the Republican proposal just got thirty-eight votes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Let’s look at California. In this sequester, as these cuts begin to get phased in, how does California stand to be affected as compared to other states?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “California, overwhelmingly, is affected the most. We’re almost double anybody else, and that’s because we have a big defense sector. So for us it’s immediately sixty-four thousand civilian DOD employees that would be furloughed. Now that’s gross pay, because I have it in front of me, of three-hundred and ninety-nine point four, or four hundred million dollars. It’s a cut in our base operations by fifty-four million, that’s the Army, Air Force that’s fifteen, Navy maintenance of five ships in San Diego, and then it goes on. I’m very concerned about the education cuts. It’s eighty-seven point six million from Title One. Title One is the part of the elementary and secondary education act that goes to poor schools, and it supports teachers, and it supports material for curriculum as well as other things. That’s a cut of services and now, this is vague, but it’s what comes out of the White House: one hundred and eight seven thousand students affected, leaving three hundred and twenty schools unfunded, and putting one thousand two hundred and ten and the wording is ‘teachers at risk.’ It’s eight-thousand two hundred children losing Head Start and eight hundred thirty thousand Californians losing unemployment training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer: \u003c/strong>“There are a lot of people who feel, well we’ve been all through this before, it’s a game of chicken, it isn’t really going to happen, this is just atmospherics, it’s politics, they’ll figure it out. Is that wrong?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Well, let me say, on the impact on California, do you have the White House-released state by state report document?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “I do. I don’t have it right in front of me, but I have it on my desk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein: “OK, so you’ve got these California cuts?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “OK, because if you go into that document you will see things. I don’t know whether you know this; we have two-hundred and fifty thousand homeless children in this state. San Bernardino has like, almost thirty-thousand. You have kids, now some of them are in motels, some of them are in some housing, but as I understand it you’ve got thirty-thousand that are sleeping in cars in parking lots. It’s unbelievable, and what happens on the border, food safety, FAA, plane delays, border crossing delays, customs delays, law enforcement cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “But those who say ‘Well that’s what they’re saying,’ because you know…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “That’s true, that’s what they’re saying but I would go back to the days when I was mayor. You could do, maybe across the board, up to one percent, then you begin to really impact payroll over that. You just can’t find enough. So if you go five percent, you are cutting deeply into payroll. I’m going out at noon to talk to the head, what we call the Director of National Intelligence, Jim Clapper, to talk about very serious cuts in intelligence that are going to take place. Now the cuts aren’t going to be public information because it’s all classified, but it’s serious. So it’s across the board and you have no flexibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “It’s the worst way to budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein: \u003c/strong>“It’s the worst way. I’ll give you an exact indication. We have long-lead three year financing on three big, Navy mobile platforms being built in the NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. I was there late last year, and I saw the materials on the dock, the first ship was being completed, for the second and third ship. Well, they cut the hose, you lose the long lease financing, NASSCO gets stuck with the materials already purchased, and the shipyard lays off people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “There are other issues. Of course now everyone is focused on this, but you obviously care deeply about things like gun control, immigration reform is being discussed at the same time. What impact does all of this have on those other big issues?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Well, if I were to be successful, which is a long stretch with the assault– I intend to fight it to the bitter end, but if I were to be successful I don’t really think it would have that much of an immediate impact because it’s a different kind of bill. But anything that has money in it would be affected, there’s just no question. Everything would stop. Any authorization or appropriation for anything new would be non-existant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Including immigration reform?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Well, how optimistic are you that everyone is going to come to their senses?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “I am hopeful that there will be an effort, emanating from the White House, if not in week one which is next week, week two, when people begin to see what’s happening, for a compromise. The White House, as you know, the President has put forward some entitlement changes and I would support; see there are changes you can do outside of the ten-year window which don’t affect people currently on these programs. And then there are other changes, like means testing . As I say, I’ve worked all my life. There was a time when I really thought I’d have to depend on this. I don’t, so why should I get it?” But it has to be a safety net, because increasingly with Social Security, companies aren’t giving pensions or retirement to general workers. Therefore, the only thing that they have is Social Security. So it becomes really important for people who aren’t well to do, and that’s what we need to protect. These programs went on as ‘great America’ programs that everybody would get them: millionaries, billionaires, thousandaires, everybody. And now they have to be shaped into more like insurance programs that if you need them, you get them. If you’re above a certain level to a certain level, you pay much more to have those. And if you’re at a certain high level, you don’t get ’em. I don’t understand why that isn’t obvious, but it isn’t. I think, you know, you can do outside of the tenure window certain things that won’t affect people now. You can begin to change retirement; increase the age a month a year, because people are living longer, they are working longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “A quick question about Prop Eight. The Obama administration yesterday filed a brief against Prop Eight; of course he’s had his own evolution on same-sex marriage, you’ve had yours, many people have. Meg Whitman signed a Republican brief, as did Clint Eastwood. Do you see all of that having any impact on the nine people who really count at the Supreme Court?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “I think, and well, I’ve told my people there, I have a wonderful judiciary staffer, an attorney, who has worked his heart out on this brief. I happen to believe that the arguments that the brief makes are really legally cogent. It begins with constituents of Jerry Nadler in the house. The two women who were married for a very long time, I think the survivor is in her eighties. What it took away from them was estate tax, so she got hit with a huge estate tax when her partner died. Now that’s unfair; it takes the federal benefit away and there are a whole host of hundreds if not thousands of federal benefits which illegally married, the state makes the marriage legal. If the state makes the marriage legal, the federal benefits should attach. I voted against DOMA, I forget I think it was Nineteen-ninety four, or nineteen ninety-six, one of the two of them. Fourteen of us, only, in the Senate voted against it, but it was clearly a violation of the Equal Protection Clause because it selected one group of a legally designated entity and discriminated against them and took away federal benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “What about the Prop. Eight? A lot of times the President had said ‘Let the states decide. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> “So, the sequester, this thing as you well know, it was meant to be kind of a poison pill; built to fail, force negotiations, no one would ever settle for this in the end. So what happened, how did we get to this point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dianne Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Well, I think if you appoint people to this kind of committee who won’t compromise, you don’t get compromise. Because compromise really means that you’ve got to give on certain things to get on other things. That just didn’t happen. I wasn’t there, I don’t know the details, but I think that’s a fair comment. I think people didn’t realize it, and that sequester was put in there to kind of urge them on to settlement. But clearly it didn’t, and I think it’s a demonstration of the hard edge of polarization and partisanship in the Senate.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Some feel that, here we are it’s at the last minute and just today the leaders are sitting down with the President. Do you feel that there was enough of a sense of urgency leading up to this day? Shouldn’t there have been more discussions, more meetings? Why wait until the last minute; was that a mistake?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “I think because there was no signal, no sign, no indication that anyone was going to compromise, I think it’s the same thing. Now, we had a bill, it cut back the amount of sequestration, it took the cuts from the ag bill that the house wouldn’t pass, which are twenty-nine billion dollars, and use those as an offset, and it invoked the Buffett rule: that people who earned over a million dollars would be required to pay at least thirty percent income tax, which is not unreasonable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “It must be incredibly difficult to work in an environment where people just don’t trust each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Yeah it is. And see, what happens is, we don’t have an everyday working relationship with the House. So what you get back and forth are sound bites, and the sound bites that get the press are all the negative ones. There are very few sound bites that come through, that bounce across the capital that have positive suggestions in them. Having said that, I know there are people that want to work out a compromise. I believe that a compromise depends on some long term, and I stress that word, entitlement reform. In return for the closure, at the very least, of certain tax loopholes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “There are some people that suggest that maybe the Democratic Party, really at least enough on the left, they’ve wanted big cuts in the defense budget, and then on the right, they’ve wanted these big budget cuts. Will there be enough in the middle to get something done, as opposed to letting things…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “I can’t say. I know I feel that way. I know there are others in my party that feel that way, in the Senate, and I know that there are some in the Republican party who feel that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “That way being…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein: \u003c/strong>“I’ve talked to some, and I intend to pursue it. I didn’t want to do it until we get through the two measures that were voted on yesterday. As usual, we had two members that voted for the Republican proposal, and the other proposal, and somebody correct me if I’m wrong, the Republican proposal just got thirty-eight votes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Let’s look at California. In this sequester, as these cuts begin to get phased in, how does California stand to be affected as compared to other states?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “California, overwhelmingly, is affected the most. We’re almost double anybody else, and that’s because we have a big defense sector. So for us it’s immediately sixty-four thousand civilian DOD employees that would be furloughed. Now that’s gross pay, because I have it in front of me, of three-hundred and ninety-nine point four, or four hundred million dollars. It’s a cut in our base operations by fifty-four million, that’s the Army, Air Force that’s fifteen, Navy maintenance of five ships in San Diego, and then it goes on. I’m very concerned about the education cuts. It’s eighty-seven point six million from Title One. Title One is the part of the elementary and secondary education act that goes to poor schools, and it supports teachers, and it supports material for curriculum as well as other things. That’s a cut of services and now, this is vague, but it’s what comes out of the White House: one hundred and eight seven thousand students affected, leaving three hundred and twenty schools unfunded, and putting one thousand two hundred and ten and the wording is ‘teachers at risk.’ It’s eight-thousand two hundred children losing Head Start and eight hundred thirty thousand Californians losing unemployment training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer: \u003c/strong>“There are a lot of people who feel, well we’ve been all through this before, it’s a game of chicken, it isn’t really going to happen, this is just atmospherics, it’s politics, they’ll figure it out. Is that wrong?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Well, let me say, on the impact on California, do you have the White House-released state by state report document?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “I do. I don’t have it right in front of me, but I have it on my desk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein: “OK, so you’ve got these California cuts?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “OK, because if you go into that document you will see things. I don’t know whether you know this; we have two-hundred and fifty thousand homeless children in this state. San Bernardino has like, almost thirty-thousand. You have kids, now some of them are in motels, some of them are in some housing, but as I understand it you’ve got thirty-thousand that are sleeping in cars in parking lots. It’s unbelievable, and what happens on the border, food safety, FAA, plane delays, border crossing delays, customs delays, law enforcement cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “But those who say ‘Well that’s what they’re saying,’ because you know…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “That’s true, that’s what they’re saying but I would go back to the days when I was mayor. You could do, maybe across the board, up to one percent, then you begin to really impact payroll over that. You just can’t find enough. So if you go five percent, you are cutting deeply into payroll. I’m going out at noon to talk to the head, what we call the Director of National Intelligence, Jim Clapper, to talk about very serious cuts in intelligence that are going to take place. Now the cuts aren’t going to be public information because it’s all classified, but it’s serious. So it’s across the board and you have no flexibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “It’s the worst way to budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein: \u003c/strong>“It’s the worst way. I’ll give you an exact indication. We have long-lead three year financing on three big, Navy mobile platforms being built in the NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. I was there late last year, and I saw the materials on the dock, the first ship was being completed, for the second and third ship. Well, they cut the hose, you lose the long lease financing, NASSCO gets stuck with the materials already purchased, and the shipyard lays off people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “There are other issues. Of course now everyone is focused on this, but you obviously care deeply about things like gun control, immigration reform is being discussed at the same time. 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Any authorization or appropriation for anything new would be non-existant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Including immigration reform?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> “Well, how optimistic are you that everyone is going to come to their senses?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feinstein:\u003c/strong> “I am hopeful that there will be an effort, emanating from the White House, if not in week one which is next week, week two, when people begin to see what’s happening, for a compromise. The White House, as you know, the President has put forward some entitlement changes and I would support; see there are changes you can do outside of the ten-year window which don’t affect people currently on these programs. And then there are other changes, like means testing . As I say, I’ve worked all my life. There was a time when I really thought I’d have to depend on this. I don’t, so why should I get it?” But it has to be a safety net, because increasingly with Social Security, companies aren’t giving pensions or retirement to general workers. Therefore, the only thing that they have is Social Security. So it becomes really important for people who aren’t well to do, and that’s what we need to protect. These programs went on as ‘great America’ programs that everybody would get them: millionaries, billionaires, thousandaires, everybody. And now they have to be shaped into more like insurance programs that if you need them, you get them. If you’re above a certain level to a certain level, you pay much more to have those. And if you’re at a certain high level, you don’t get ’em. I don’t understand why that isn’t obvious, but it isn’t. I think, you know, you can do outside of the tenure window certain things that won’t affect people now. 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He acknowledged trying to limit the damage to national security from the disclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 7 of last year, The Associated Press reported that the CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner, using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. The next day, the Los Angeles Times reported that the would-be bomber was cooperating with U.S. authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Thursday's hearing Republican Sens. 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At one point, Sen. 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Carney said the White House does not plan to send the Justice memos to lawmakers beyond those on the House and Senate intelligence committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the assurances from the administration, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he was encouraged when Obama called him on the telephone to inform him of his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Wyden said that after he went to read the material he became concerned the Department of Justice \"is not following through\" on the commitment. He asked Brennan to look into the matter, and the CIA nomine said he would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the sometimes-combative questioning, Brennan's confirmation seemed a foregone conclusion as he appeared before the committee. \"I look forward to working with you,\" said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyden made the drone strikes the main focus of his time to question Brennan, asking at one point what could be done \"so that the American people are brought into this debate and have a full understanding of what rules\" are for their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan said the day's hearings were part of that effort, and said he backs speeches by officials as a way to explain counter-terrorism programs. He said there is a \"misimpression by the American people' who believe drone strikes are aimed at suspects in past attacks. Instead, he said, \"we only take such actions as a last resort to save lives\" when there is no other alternative in what officials believe is an imminent threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aides have portrayed Brennan as cautious in the use of drones, restraining others at the CIA or military who seek to use them more often. At the same time, as the White House's counterterror adviser, he has presided over an explosion of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than 50 strikes took place during the Bush administration, while more than 360 strikes have been launched under Obama, according to the website The Long War Journal, which tracks the operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials say Brennan would further limit the use of drones by the CIA and leave the majority of strikes to the military. Brennan signaled in his written answers that he would not seek to expand the CIA's paramilitary operations. In written responses to questions from the committee in advance of the hearing, Brennan wrote, \"While the CIA needs to maintain a paramilitary capability ... the CIA should not be used, in my view, to carry out traditional military activities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CIA's drone strikes primarily focus on al-Qaida and Taliban targets in the tribal regions of Pakistan. The agency also carries out strikes in Yemen, where three American citizens with al-Qaida connections have been killed: Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old-son and Samir Khan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the question of waterboarding, Brennan said that while serving as a deputy manager at the CIA during the Bush administration, he was told such interrogation methods produced \"valuable information.\" Now, after reading a 300-page summary of a 6,000-page report on CIA interrogation and detention policies, he said he does \"not know what the truth is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his opening statement, he said U.S. computer systems are under daily attack by \"nation states, international criminal organizations, subnational groups and individual hackers.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nRep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, has taken a keen interest in the question of drone strikes, the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/02/06/barbara-lee-questions-obamas-authority-in-drone-attacks/?gta=commentlistpos#commentlistpos\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reports:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rep. Barbara Lee, an Oakland Democrat and one of President Obama’s earliest and most ardent supporters, is gathering signatures for a letter asking the administration to clarify under what authority it justifies \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/world/middleeast/with-brennan-pick-a-light-on-drone-strikes-hazards.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_top\">drone attacks\u003c/a> on U.S. citizens viewed as terrorists, other targeted assassinations and other policies the administration has carried over from the Bush administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, has just released CIA nominee John Brennan’s responses to written questions \u003ca href=\"http://intelligence.senate.gov/130207/questionnaire2.pdf\" target=\"_top\">here\u003c/a> and especially \u003ca href=\"http://intelligence.senate.gov/130207/prehearing.pdf\" target=\"_top\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration \u003ca href=\"http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/06/the-war-on-terror-is-the-problem-not-drones/\" target=\"_top\">appears\u003c/a>, on the basis of a \u003ca href=\"http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf\" target=\"_top\">leaked memo\u003c/a>, to be basing its actions on Congress’s \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists\" target=\"_top\">authorization for use of military force against terrorists\u003c/a>, passed overwhelmingly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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The next day, the Los Angeles Times reported that the would-be bomber was cooperating with U.S. authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Thursday's hearing Republican Sens. James Risch of Idaho and Dan Coats of Indiana were among those who contended Brennan had inadvertently revealed that the U.S. had a spy inside Yemen's al-Qaida branch when, hours after the first AP report appeared, he told a group of media consultants that \"there was no active threat during the bin Laden anniversary because ... we had inside control of the plot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan acknowledged the comments about \"inside control\" but denied that they revealed any secret elements associated with the U.S. operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think I have the leak right here,\" Risch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bristling, Brennan shot back, \"I disagree with that vehemently.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan is a veteran of more than three decades in intelligence work, and is currently serving as Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser in the White House. Any thought he had of becoming CIA director four years ago vanished amid questions about the role he played at the CIA when the Bush administration approved waterboarding and other forms of \"enhanced interrogation\" of suspected terrorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement at the beginning of Thursday's session, Brennan said the United States remains at war with al-Qaida and other terrorists and is under \"daily cyberattack\" by foreign countries and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said historic transformations continue sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa, with \"major implications for our interests, Israel's security, our Arab partners and the prospects for peace and stability throughout the region.\" Additionally, he said that Iran and North Korea \"remain bent on pursuing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile delivery systems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing was interrupted repeatedly — once before it began and then several times before Brennan had completed his preliminary remarks. At one point, Sen. 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Carney said the White House does not plan to send the Justice memos to lawmakers beyond those on the House and Senate intelligence committees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the assurances from the administration, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he was encouraged when Obama called him on the telephone to inform him of his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Wyden said that after he went to read the material he became concerned the Department of Justice \"is not following through\" on the commitment. He asked Brennan to look into the matter, and the CIA nomine said he would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the sometimes-combative questioning, Brennan's confirmation seemed a foregone conclusion as he appeared before the committee. \"I look forward to working with you,\" said Sen. 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We exempt over 900 specific weapons that will not fall under the bill.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein spearheaded the passage of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=assault+weapons+ban+1994\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Assault Weapons Ban\u003c/a> in 1994. 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All eight Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were unavailable or unwilling to appear on CBS' \"Face the Nation,\" host Bob Schieffer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, was the sole representative of gun rights' activists on the various Sunday talk shows. In an interview on \"Fox News Sunday,\" Gohmert defended the sale of assault weapons and said that the principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who authorities say died trying to overtake the shooter, should herself have been armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn't have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands. 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