Reply #6: She was also involved in 'quality of life' issues for the military

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Here's an article explaining how in 2007 she quit the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee because she was being sniffed out. That's how she keeps her mantle of respectability on. She runs away before it becomes a full blown scandal.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54932

ON CAPITOL HILL
Feinstein quits committee
under war-profiteer cloud
Report documents military contracts
for firms owned by senator's husband
Posted: March 28, 2007

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has abruptly walked away from her responsibilities with the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee after a report linked her votes to the financial well-being of her husband's companies, which received billions of dollars worth of military construction contracts she approved.

As reported in Metroactive, an online report from the Silicon Valley, Feinstein's resignation followed six years of subcommittee work during which time her alleged conflict of interest stemmed from her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of Perini Corp. and URS Corp.

Feinstein, chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee, regularly reviewed and accepted contracts from her husband's companies for not only construction work for military bases, but also addressing "quality of life" issues for the veterans of the United States military services.

"As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design," wrote Peter Byrne in the report. "She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp."

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