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By Kristina Peterson and Michael R. Crittenden

Veteran Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) on Tuesday embraced a push to change the Senate’s rules for confirming presidential nominees, as continued GOP opposition eroded her earlier resistance to changing the chamber’s traditions.

Now in her fifth term in the Senate, Ms. Feinstein told fellow Senate Democrats in their weekly lunch that she now supports efforts to limit Republicans’ ability to prevent confirmation votes on President Barack Obama’s nominees. On Monday night, Republicans blocked a fourth Obama nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, an influential federal appeals court.

“We need to change the rules now,” Ms. Feinstein told reporters Tuesday, describing what she told her colleagues earlier in the day. “Republicans say: ‘What goes around comes around — wait until we’re in charge.’ I can’t wait until they’re in charge — the moment is now.”…