Liberal of the Week

We're trying something new in /Liberal, something called "Liberal of the Week." It is a way of recognizing or highlighting a liberal (be they elected, unelected member of government, or ordinary citizen) actually doing something liberals widely consider as good.
The 'finalists' for this contest are selected from submissions to /Liberal made in the last week or so, and the general idea is to highlight a regular pattern of accomplishment and positive acts. While it is fine to highlight what the other side is screwing up, it is also important to highlight what we're doing right, or trying to do right, and that's what "Liberal of the Week" is about.
So below are the finalists gathered from the past week's submissions to /liberal, and in a day or two all the comments below in support of one or more of the finalists will be tallied (saying more than one person is awesome is fine), and we'll announce the first "Liberal of the Week".
Any questions, comments, criticism, suggestions, by all means leave them below or message the moderators; this is still very new so we're trying to figure out how to do it, and any input you have is much appreciated.
The finalists for this week's "Liberal of the Week":

• Senator Diane Feinstein & Rep. Louise Slaughter, for introducing The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) to phase out the rampant overuse by the livestock industry of medically important antibiotics in healthy animals.. 70% of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on industrial farms in healthy food animals; this massive overprescription is breeding new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria like E. coli and MRSA, a type of staph infection that now kills more people in the U.S. every year than AIDS. The FDA failed, and now Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Slaughter are stepping up to get it done. If you don't want to die from a new strain of antibiotic-resistant flesh-eating bacteria, Sen. Feinstein and Rep. Slaughter are trying to save your life.
• The Democrats of the California State Assembly, for passing the toughest fracking disclosure law in the nation, and thus help save Californians from the plight suffered by the many Pennsylvanians who can now light their tap water on fire.. It would force gas drillers to disclose exactly what chemicals they're injecting into the ground to loosen up the gas, which at present we only know after the fact, when scientists test the water you already drank. It still needs to pass the California State Senate and then be signed into law, but major credit goes to the California State Assembly for informing California citizens what toxic fracking chemicals are in their drinking water. Knowing is half the battle.
• President Obama, for calling out the GOP for playing chicken with the debt ceiling. Obama called for an end to “tax breaks for oil companies and hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners.”. Only one small step in the process, but a necessary one.
• Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor, for being an effective liberal voice and vote on the Supreme Court in the past year, for being an effective public voice for the liberal POV in jurisprudence, and for interjecting a human element into technical discussions before the bench, something long missing from the Supreme Court.. At long last we have a counterpart to Justice Scalia, who for years has made the public case for the conservative POV in judicial thinking and decision-making.

So if you think one of the above is worthy of being "Liberal of the Week", put their name in a comment below or upvote them if someone else wrote them first (downvotes will not be factored in). And if we missed any from this past week's submissions, feel free to write them in and why they should be "Liberal of the Week".