Dianne Feinstein, stalwart of the Senate, dies at 90

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : In 1960, California Gov. Pat Brown (D), who had read a paper about criminal justice that Mrs. Feinstein wrote through a public-affairs internship, named her to the California Women's Board of Terms and Parole, her first job in public service.
44% : "From pushing for common sense gun safety reforms to standing up for LGBT equality, she never let up in working to do right by her constituents and the American people.
43% : She disappointed liberals with her law-and-order approach toward governance and her long-standing support for the death penalty, even as she frustrated conservatives with her support for gun control and same-sex-marriage rights.
22% : After the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 20 first-graders and six adults were gunned down in 2012, Mrs. Feinstein spearheaded an unsuccessful effort to renew the law.

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