Sen. Barbara Boxer (D–Calif.) Junior Senator from California

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Residence: Rancho Mirage Born: Nov. 11, 1940; Brooklyn, N.Y. Religion: Jewish Family: Husband, Stewart Boxer; two children Education: Brooklyn College, B.A. 1962 (economics) Military Service: None Career: Congressional aide; journalist; stockbroker

Elected: 1992 (3rd term) Note: Chief Deputy Whip Political Highlights: Candidate for Marin County Board of Supervisors, 1972; Marin County Board of Supervisors, 1977-83 (president, 1980); U.S. House, 1983-93 Committees: • Commerce, Science & Transportation (Aviation Operations, Safety & Security; Consumer Protection, Product Safety & Insurance; Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries & Coast Guard; Science & Space; Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine) • Environment & Public Works (Chairwoman) • Foreign Relations (East Asian & Pacific Affairs; International Development; International Operations & Organizations; Near Eastern & South & Central Asian Affairs) • Select Ethics (Chairwoman)

Phone: 202-224-3553 | Fax: 202-228-3972 | Web: http://boxer.senate.gov 112 Hart Bldg. | Washington, DC 20510-0505

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D–Calif.) Junior Senator from California

CQ Politics in America Profile (Updated: March 11, 2009)

As chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Boxer has sparked more than a few YouTube moments in which she has brassily put down her opponents. That is hardly surprising, given her repeated outspokenness during her quarter-century on Capitol Hill.

Boxer’s brash liberalism, environmentalism, feminist sympathies and anti-war sentiment have made her an icon of the political left. She often displays little patience for those who don’t share her views. “When I believe in something, I believe in it strongly,” she once said.

In March 2007, not long after assuming the Environment post, Boxer hosted a hearing for former Vice President Al Gore to allow him to discuss his well-known views on how global warming must be confronted. When the committee’s ranking Republican, global warming skeptic James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, asked Gore to respond to his questions in writing, Boxer ordered Inhofe to allow the Nobel Prize winner to speak. “You’re not making the rules anymore. You used to when you had this,” she told the former GOP committee chairman, holding up the gavel. “Elections have consequences.”

Boxer is likely to be a strong ally of President Obama’s administration after having tangled with George W. Bush’s appointees. She called for EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson’s resignation for his agency’s decision under Bush to black out information in documents her panel had sought as it investigated the Bush administration’s opposition to California’s bid for a waiver from federal rules limiting its ability to regulate car and truck emissions. Relations between the two grew so bad that for much of 2008 he refused to appear before her committee. When he and some of his top aides didn’t show up for a September hearing on the administration’s environmental record, Boxer let loose. “They’re cowardly and they have been a danger to this country,” she said.

The incidents showed Boxer’s often-blunt style with opponents while demonstrating her commitment to combating global warming, a topic she calls her top legislative priority. She has had trouble, though, finding any consensus on the divisive issue.

The closest she came was in June 2008, when the Senate almost took up a sweeping bill that would have created a mandatory “cap and trade” program to deal with global warming. Instead, the bipartisan legislation was never debated, as parliamentary wrangling left it shelved.

In February 2009, Boxer predicted her committee would move a global warming bill in time to bring to international climate talks in Copenhagen that December. She said she needed time to ensure the bill has wide support. “We want to get a bill out there that is straightforward,” she said, and “doesn’t have so much weight that it sinks.”

Getting major legislation passed has not been the trademark of Boxer’s career. Heading into the 110th Congress (2007-08), only one Boxer- sponsored Senate bill had ever been enacted into law. That 1994 measure allowed states to conduct seismic retrofitting of bridges without regard to whether the bridges could be fixed or replaced under an existing federal program.

Nevertheless, she keeps a busy agenda. She has pushed legislation to protect people from exposure to perchlorate, a toxic component in rocket fuel that has contaminated drinking water in 35 states. She has tangled with the Bush administration over its refusal to list polar bears as endangered species and its decision to end the ban on offshore drilling, a significant environmental concern in California.

A key legislative victory for Boxer came in November 2007, when the Senate voted to override Bush’s veto of the $23.2 billion Water Resources Development Act, a popular piece of legislation authorizing water projects but that Bush criticized as too expensive. His veto prompted a rare legislative moment in which Boxer and Inhofe worked together to reverse the president.

She has taken up the cause of the nation’s vanishing honeybees, which have been suffering from “colony collapse disorder.” In seeking funding to study the decline in the insect that is a vital pollinator for many crops, Boxer has warned that the bees’ decline could cause a $15 billion direct loss in crop production, including in such important California crops as almonds. Boxer also has proposed putting anti-missile technology on U.S. commercial aircraft. And as an almost weekly cross-country commuter, she has pushed for enactment of an air passengers’ bill of rights.

Boxer has another portfolio, as chairwoman of the Select Ethics Committee. In that role, she oversaw the committee process that in February 2008 resulted in a decision to admonish Republican Sen. Larry E. Craig of Idaho. The committee said he brought discredit upon the Senate by his efforts to escape charges in June 2007 when he was arrested in a Minnesota airport restroom for allegedly soliciting an undercover police officer for a sexual encounter.

Boxer also serves on the Foreign Relations Committee, where she chairs the subcommittee on international operations and organizations, human rights, democracy and global women’s issues. She wants Obama’s administration to seek to end violence and discrimination against women globally. She has been a consistent critic of the Iraq War; in October 2002, she was one of 23 senators to vote against the resolution authorizing Bush to use force to oust Saddam Hussein, and she hasn’t let up in her criticism.

Boxer’s other committee assignment is Commerce, Science and Transportation. During a 2008 debate on consumer product safety legislation, she responded to GOP resistance about a ban on certain phthalates — compounds commonly used to make plastics more flexible — by putting 90 scientific studies on the dangers of phthalates into the record. House and Senate conferees eventually reached a deal in which several of the compounds were banned.

Boxer’s fiery stands have proven popular in California, where she was re-elected to her third term in 2004 by a 20-percentage-point margin over former California Secretary of State Bill Jones. Six years earlier, she had a similarly easy time beating state Treasurer Matt Fong by 10 percentage points. To ward off challengers in 2010, she raised nearly $4.7 million during the 2008 election cycle.

Her initial Senate run proved more difficult. In 1992, the “Year of the Woman” in national politics, she defeated conservative TV commentator Bruce Herschensohn by 5 percentage points.

Boxer, a Brooklyn-born stockbroker, got her political start in Marin County, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, after she moved there at age 27 with her husband Stewart, an Oakland labor attorney. She won a county board of supervisors seat in 1976, on her second try, and won a House seat in 1982, taking over from longtime friend and mentor Rep. John L. Burton after he decided to retire.

Boxer is a friend of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a fellow Bay Area Democrat, dating back to the time in the 1980s when they represented adjoining districts in the House. Boxer is also friends with former President Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Boxer’s daughter, Nicole, married Tony Rodham, the former first lady’s brother. The couple had a son, Zachary, in 1996, but divorced in 2000. Zachary Rodham is the only person ever to have a grandmother and an aunt serving in the Senate.

Boxer hasn’t limited her energies to politics. She published a well-reviewed novel, “A Time to Run,” with author Mary-Rose Hayes in 2005. It tells the story of a female senator whose former lover attempts to sabotage her career.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D–Calif.) Junior Senator from California

CQ Politics in America: State Description (Updated: May 2003)

STATE LEGISLATURE

Legislature: Year-round with recess

Assembly: 80 members, 2-year terms

2005 breakdown: 48D, 32R; 55 men, 25 women

Salary: $99,000

Phone: (916) 445-3614

Senate: 40 members, 4-year terms

2005 breakdown: 25D, 15R; 28 men, 12 women

Salary: $99,000

Phone: (916) 445-4251

STATE TERM LIMITS

Governor: 2 terms

Assembly: 3 terms

Senate: 2 terms

URBAN STATISTICS

City Population

Los Angeles 3,694,820

San Diego 1,223,400

San Jose 894,943

San Francisco 776,733

Long Beach 461,522

REGISTERED VOTERS

Democrat 43% Republican 34%

Unaffiliated 18%

Others 5%

POPULATION

2004 population (est.) 35,893,799

2000 population 33,871,648

1990 population 29,760,021

Percent change (1990-2000) +13.8%

Rank among states (2004) 1

Median age 33.3

Born in state 50.2%

Foreign born 26.2%

Violent crime rate 622/100,000

Poverty level 14.2%

Federal workers 246,152

Military 228,903

REDISTRICTING

California gained one House seat in reapportionment.

The state legislature drew a new 53-district map, which the governor signed on Sept. 26, 2001.

MISCELLANEOUS

Web: www.ca.gov

Capital: Sacramento

STATE ELECTION OFFICIAL

(916) 657-2166 DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS

(916) 442-5707

REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS

(818) 841-5210

Dist. White Black Asian Hisp.

1 71% 1% 4% 18%

2 76 1 4 14

3 74 4 6 11

4 84 1 2 9

5 43 14 15 21

6 76 2 4 15

7 43 17 13 21

8 43 9 29 16

9 35 26 15 19

10 65 6 9 15

11 64 3 9 20

12 48 3 29 16

13 38 6 28 21

14 60 3 16 18

15 47 2 29 17

16 32 3 23 38

17 46 3 5 43

18 39 6 9 42

19 60 3 4 28

20 21 7 6 63

21 46 2 5 43 22 67 6 3 21

23 49 2 5 42

24 69 2 4 22

25 57 8 4 27

26 53 4 15 24

27 45 4 11 36

28 31 4 6 56

29 39 6 24 26

30 76 3 9 8

31 10 4 14 70

32 15 3 18 62

33 20 30 12 35

34 11 4 5 77

35 10 34 6 47

36 48 4 13 30

37 17 25 11 43

38 14 4 10 71

39 21 6 10 61

40 49 2 16 30

41 64 5 4 23

42 54 3 16 24

43 23 12 3 58

44 51 5 5 35

45 50 6 3 38

46 63 1 15 17

47 17 1 14 65

48 68 1 13 15

49 58 5 3 30

50 66 2 10 19

51 21 9 12 53 52 73 4 5 14

53 51 7 8 29

STATE 47 6 11 32

U.S. 69 12 4 13

Median White Blue Service

Dist. Income Collar Collar Industry

1 $38,918 58% 24% 18%

2 $33,559 55 27 18

3 $51,313 68 19 13

4 $49,387 63 20 16

5 $36,719 63 20 17

6 $59,115 68 18 14

7 $52,778 60 23 17

8 $52,322 73 12 15

9 $44,314 69 17 14

10 $65,245 69 18 13

11 $61,996 68 21 11

12 $70,307 73 15 12

13 $62,415 67 22 11

14 $77,985 77 13 10

15 $74,947 74 17 9

16 $67,689 61 25 14

17 $49,234 55 28 16

18 $34,211 46 37 17

19 $41,225 59 25 15

20 $26,800 38 43 19

21 $36,047 53 31 16

22 $41,801 58 25 17 23 $44,874 57 26 17

24 $61,453 68 19 14

25 $49,002 60 24 16

26 $58,968 71 17 12

27 $46,781 66 20 14

28 $40,439 58 26 16

29 $43,895 70 16 14

30 $60,713 84 7 9

31 $26,093 44 34 22

32 $41,394 51 33 16

33 $31,655 64 18 18

34 $29,863 44 40 16

35 $32,156 53 28 19

36 $51,633 71 16 13

37 $34,006 54 29 17

38 $42,488 51 34 15

39 $45,307 55 31 14

40 $54,356 65 22 13

41 $38,721 57 25 17

42 $70,463 74 15 11

43 $37,390 46 37 17

44 $51,578 59 27 14

45 $40,468 53 26 21

46 $61,567 73 16 12

47 $41,618 41 39 20

48 $69,663 80 10 10

49 $46,445 58 26 16

50 $59,813 71 16 13

51 $39,243 55 26 20

52 $52,940 68 18 14 53 $36,637 65 17 19

STATE $47,493 63 22 15

U.S. $41,994 60 25 15

College

Dist. Over 64 Under 18 Education Rural Sq. Miles

1 13% 25% 25% 24% 11,006

2 15 26 17 32 21,758

3 12 26 27 14 3,374

4 14 26 25 33 16,453

5 11 28 21 0 147

6 13 23 38 10 1,625

7 10 27 22 1 349

8 13 14 44 0 35

9 11 23 37 0 132

10 12 27 36 3 1,013

11 10 29 29 10 2,277

12 14 21 41 0 117

13 10 25 32 1 221

14 12 22 52 6 826

15 10 24 42 1 286

16 8 27 27 1 230

17 10 27 25 10 4,820

18 10 34 10 9 3,052

19 12 28 20 19 6,692

20 7 35 6 9 4,982

21 10 32 15 20 8,026

22 11 29 18 18 10,417 23 12 25 26 2 1,042

24 11 28 30 6 3,883

25 8 32 19 12 21,484

26 11 27 32 1 752

27 11 26 26 0 151

28 9 29 24 0 77

29 13 23 33 1 101

30 15 17 54 2 286

31 7 30 14 0 39

32 9 31 14 0 92

33 10 24 27 0 48

34 8 32 9 0 58

35 8 33 13 0 55

36 10 23 37 0 75

37 8 33 15 0 75

38 9 32 13 0 104

39 8 33 15 0 65

40 11 27 26 0 100

41 14 28 18 11 13,314

42 8 28 35 1 314

43 6 37 9 1 191

44 8 31 21 2 522

45 16 29 17 10 5,980

46 13 22 36 0 264

47 6 33 10 0 55

48 12 23 47 0 212

49 13 29 21 10 1,690

50 12 25 40 2 300

51 10 31 15 4 4,582

52 11 27 29 6 2,113 53 10 21 32 0 95

STATE 11 27 27 6 155,959

U.S. 12 26 24 21 3,537,438

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D–Calif.) Junior Senator from California

Contact Information & Staff (Updated: January 2010)

Address: 112 Hart Bldg., Washington, DC 20510-0505 Phone: (202) 224-3553 Fax: (202) 228-3972 E-mail: boxer.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm Web: boxer.senate.gov

Key Capitol Hill Staff: Laura Schiller, Chief of Staff Sean Moore, Legis. Dir. Zachary Coile, Communications Dir. Kelly Boyer, Scheduler

Fresno: Phone: (559) 497-5109 Fax: (559) 497-5111 2500 Tulare St., Suite 5290 Fresno, CA 93721 Contact: Tom Bohigian, State Dir.

Sacramento: Phone: (916) 448-2787 Fax: (916) 448-2563 501 I St., Suite 7-600 Sacramento, CA 95814 Contact: Stacey Lybeck, Field Rep.

San Diego: Phone: (619) 239-3884 Fax: (619) 239-5719 600 B St., Suite 2240 San Diego, CA 92101 Contact: Caridad Sanchez, District Dir.

San Francisco: Phone: (415) 403-0100 Fax: (415) 956-6701 1700 Montgomery St., Suite 240 San Francisco, CA 94111 Contact: Adrienne Bousian, Deputy State Dir.

San Bernardino: Phone: (909) 888-8525 Fax: (909) 888-8613 201 North E St., Suite 210 San Bernardino, CA 92401 Contact: Alton Garrett, Regional Dir.

Los Angeles: Phone: (213) 894-5000 Fax: (213) 894-5042 312 N. Spring St., Suite 1748 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Contact: Leannah Bradley, State Communications Dir.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D–Calif.) Junior Senator from California

Committees, Leadership Positions and Caucus Memberships (Updated: May 2010)

Committee and Subcommittee Assignments

Commerce, Science & Transportation (5th of 14 Democrats) • Aviation Operations, Safety & Security • Consumer Protection, Product Safety & Insurance • Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries & Coast Guard • Science & Space • Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Environment & Public Works (Chairwoman) Foreign Relations (4th of 11 Democrats) • East Asian & Pacific Affairs • International Development • International Operations & Organizations • Near Eastern & South & Central Asian Affairs Select Ethics (Chairwoman)

Leadership Positions and Party Committee Assignments

Chief Deputy Whip Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee

Selected Caucus and Special Organization Memberships

Congressional Coalition on Adoption Congressional Internet Caucus Senate Auto Caucus Senate Rural Health Caucus

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) Senior Senator from California

Pronounced: FINE-stine Residence: San Francisco Born: June 22, 1933; San Francisco, Calif. Religion: Jewish Family: Husband, Richard Blum; one child, three stepchildren Education: Stanford U., A.B. 1955 (history) Military Service: None Career: Civic board official Elected: 1992 (3rd full term) Political Highlights: San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 1970-78 (president, 1970-71, 1974-75, 1978); candidate for mayor of San Francisco, 1971, 1975; mayor of San Francisco, 1978-89; Democratic nominee for governor, 1990 Committees: • Appropriations (Agriculture; Commerce-Justice-Science; Defense; Energy-Water; Interior-Environment; Transportation-HUD) • Judiciary (Administrative Oversight & the Courts; Constitution; Crime & Drugs; Immigration, Refugees & Border Security; Terrorism & Homeland Security) • Rules & Administration • Select Intelligence (Chairwoman)

Phone: 202-224-3841 | Fax: 202-228-3954 | Web: http://feinstein.senate.gov 331 Hart Bldg. | Washington, DC 20510-0504

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) Senior Senator from California

CQ Politics in America Profile (Updated: March 11, 2009)

Feinstein is a calm, thoughtful legislator interested in reaching across the Senate’s partisan divide to make compromises. Sometimes that has meant teaming with conservatives with whom she usually disagrees, and sometimes it means questioning her party’s leaders.

Feinstein (FINE-stine) has never fit the stereotype of the soft-hearted “San Francisco liberal,” even though she rose to prominence as the city’s mayor from 1978 to 1989. Back home, she is thought of as a moderate and even a conservative voice on some issues. While she often votes with her Democratic colleagues, she is known for often protracted deliberations before making up her mind — something that makes her seem less overtly partisan than many of her colleagues. Feinstein broke with teachers unions to support a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., in 2004. Two years later, she was the sole Democrat on the Judiciary Committee to support a constitutional amendment to protect the flag. And in 2007, she supported the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as President George W. Bush’s attorney general despite liberals’ opposition.

She irked Majority Leader Harry Reid in January 2009 by declaring Illinois Democrat Roland W. Burris should be seated to replace Barack Obama in the Senate. Reid and other senior Democrats argued that Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich’s selection was tainted because federal prodecutors said the governor tried to sell the seat. “If you don’t seat Mr. Burris, it has ramifications for gubernatorial appointments all over America,” she said.

“She’ll take political heat to find common ground,” South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told The Wall Street Journal.

That reputation for pragmatism and centrism has helped her regularly top the list of California’s most-admired officeholders. A 2008 survey showed that if Feinstein were to seek the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2010 — when Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be ineligible to seek re-election due to term limits — she would swamp a primary field that could include former governor and current Attorney General Jerry Brown, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Feinstein initially sought the position in 1990, but lost to Republican Pete Wilson.

For now, she has plenty to keep her busy. In the 111th Congress (2009-10), she chairs the Select Intelligence Committee and wields considerable clout as a senior member of the Appropriations, Judiciary, and Rules and Administration committees. Early in 2009, she ruffled some feathers by questioning Obama’s selection of former California Rep. Leon E. Panetta to head the CIA. She said Panetta — a former White House chief of staff and one-time political rival of hers in the 1990 governor’s race — lacked any intelligence experience and that she had not been consulted about his appointment. She eventually relented and said she would back Panetta.

Subsequently, Feinstein declared intentions for the Intelligence Committee to review the administration’s detention and interrogation tactics at the military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. She also could revisit the 2008 update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expands administration authority to spy on suspected terrorists and permits retroactive legal immunity for telecommunications companies that assisted the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program.

Feinstein was a supporter of Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan, and supported a $700 billion measure, which Bush signed into law in 2008, aimed at shoring up the nation’s financial services sector. In early 2009, she joined with Maine Republican Olympia J. Snowe on legislation to prohibit companies from using their relief funds to lobby. Feinstein also introduced a bill to impose government supervision over the business-travel costs of companies receiving such funds.

As chairwoman of the Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, she has helped preserve the CalFed program that protects water quality in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta — where most of the state’s freshwater comes from — while preserving the water supply for the state’s enormous agricultural interests. She also has worked with Schwarzenegger to get more money for the state’s efforts to fight wildfires. With Democrat Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, Snowe and Republican Ted Stevens, then the senior Alaska senator, she cosponsored a provision in the Democrats’ 2007 energy bill that mandated the first increase in fuel economy standards for cars and trucks in two decades. With Snowe and Democrat Carl Levin of Michigan, she wrote legislation — included in the reauthorization of agriculture programs enacted in May 2008 — closing the “Enron loophole” that had allowed manipulation of energy markets, including in Feinstein’s home state early in the decade.

She also played a lead role in the Senate’s 2007 investigation into allegations that, under Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, the Justice Department had politicized the offices of many U.S. attorneys across the country. The investigation led to Gonzales’ resignation in August of that year, and Feinstein helped push to enactment laws bolstering the Senate’s role in confirming U.S. attorneys and requiring prosecutors to live in the districts where they are appointed to serve.

Her measure to ban phthalates — chemicals used to make plastics softer — in children’s toys was included in a Consumer Product Safety Commission bill enacted in August 2008. Phthalates have been tied to possible reproductive problems, especially in males.

Feinstein, a longtime champion of gun restrictions, was upset in June 2008 when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban. “With this decision, 70 years of precedent has gone out the window. And I believe the people of this great country will be less safe because of it,” said Feinstein, the author of a federal assault weapons ban that lapsed. In February 2009, the Senate included in a District voting rights bill an amendment to repeal the District’s ban on semiautomatic weapons. Feinstein lambasted her colleagues for the vote and vowed to push legislation to reinstate the federal assault weapons ban.

Feinstein came to support gun control through painful personal experience. In November 1978, while serving as president of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, Feinstein discovered the body of Mayor George Moscone in his City Hall office after he and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay city supervisor, were gunned down by former Supervisor Dan White. White had sneaked into City Hall through an unlocked window to evade the building’s security force. (The incident was depicted — with an archival news clip of Feinstein — in the 2008 film “Milk.”)

As board president, Feinstein succeeded Moscone as mayor, a job she had sought unsuccessfully at the ballot box. As mayor, she defeated a recall effort that groups against gun control put on the ballot. She left City Hall in 1989 and prepared for her 1990 gubernatorial race against Wilson.

In 1992, she defeated Sen. John Seymour, whom Wilson had appointed to succeed himself. In 1994, Feinstein got a scare from then-Rep. Michael Huffington, an oil family scion, who spent millions of his own dollars. But she prevailed, as she did six years later against Rep. Tom Campbell, a moderate Republican who had difficulty getting traction in the race. In 2006, she coasted to victory over former Sen. Richard “Dick” Mountjoy, a conservative who could raise only enough money to mount a nominal campaign.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) Senior Senator from California

CQ Politics in America: State Description (Updated: April 2005) Profile not available.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) Senior Senator from California

Contact Information & Staff (Updated: April 2009)

Address: 331 Hart Bldg., Washington, DC 20510-0504 Phone: (202) 224-3841 Fax: (202) 228-3954 E-mail: feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe Web: feinstein.senate.gov

Key Capitol Hill Staff: Chris Thompson, Chief of Staff John Watts, Legis. Dir. Gil Duran, Press Secy. Aaron Adkins, Scheduler

San Francisco: Phone: (415) 393-0707 Fax: (415) 393-0710 1 Post St., Suite 2450 San Francisco, CA 94104 Contact: Jim Molinari, State Dir.

Los Angeles: Phone: (310) 914-7300 Fax: (310) 914-7318 11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915 Los Angeles, CA 90025 Contact: Guillermo Gonzalez, Deputy State Dir.

San Diego: Phone: (619) 231-9712 Fax: (619) 231-1108 750 B St., Suite 1030 San Diego, CA 92101 Contact: James Peterson, Regional Dir.

Fresno: Phone: (559) 485-7430 Fax: (559) 485-9689 2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4290 Fresno, CA 93721 Contact: Shelly Abajian, District Dir. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) Senior Senator from California

Committees, Leadership Positions and Caucus Memberships (Updated: May 2010)

Committee and Subcommittee Assignments

Appropriations (9th of 18 Democrats) • Agriculture • Commerce-Justice-Science • Defense • Energy-Water • Interior-Environment • Transportation-HUD Judiciary (3rd of 12 Democrats) • Administrative Oversight & the Courts • Constitution • Crime & Drugs • Immigration, Refugees & Border Security • Terrorism & Homeland Security Rules & Administration (5th of 11 Democrats) Select Intelligence (Chairwoman)

Leadership Positions and Party Committee Assignments

Senate Democratic Policy Committee

Selected Caucus and Special Organization Memberships

Congressional Wine Caucus Senate Auto Caucus Senate National Guard Caucus Senate New Democrat Coalition Senate Rural Health Caucus

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