Dianne Feinstein

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., right, sits next to the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, during a hearing on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013.. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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** FILE ** Sen. Dianne Feinstein (right), California Democrat and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, meets with CIA Director-nominee John Brennan (left), currently assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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**FILE** Sen. Dianne Feinstein seeks to reimpose weapons bans that expired in 2004. The California Democrat’s current bill would go further than her 1994 law, which was sunsetted. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 16, 2012, following a closed-door hearing of the committee where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified. (Associated Press)

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 16, 2012, following a closed-door hearing of the committee where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified. (Associated Press)

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. is surrounded by reporters after speaking, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, following a committee's closed-door hearing where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, center, arrives for a closed door Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to discuss the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and the intelligence and security situation in other Arab Spring countries at the Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Dianne Feinstein

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Republican opposition to reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in its current form will "absolutely" be used against them as a campaign issue, according to (from left) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, of New Hampshire, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, of California, and Sen. Patty Murray, of Washington, all Democrats. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, accompanied by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, about the Senate Judiciary Committee's action on legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Mrs. Feinstein is the lead sponsor of the Respect for Marriage Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont confers Wednesday with his fellow Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. Mrs. Feinstein is a co-sponsor of a bill to repeal DOMA, which passed Congress in 1996. Mr. Leahy voted for it then, but now supports its repeal.