Dianne Feinstein Steps Back From Senate Judiciary
Under pressure to resign the seat she has occupied for over 30 years, Senator Dianne Feinstein Announced Thursday that it wanted to temporarily move away from an important senatorial committee due to poor health.
The 89 -year -old Californian Democrat, who is the oldest member in the congress, has been far from the Senate since February due to a diagnosis of Zona, missing some 58 votes.
Senator’s spokesperson said San Francisco Chronicle This week, she worked at home while she recovers from the virus.
But with the Senate which was to meet on Monday after a two -week recess, there were fears that its absence continues to interrupt work in the judicial committee of which it was a member.
After closely lose control of the House of Representatives For the Republicans in the mid-term elections of last year, President Joe Biden was under pressure to continue using the majority of the Democrats Senate to continue confirming As many federal judges as possible.
Given the thin majority of Democrats, the Committee has not voted on any new candidate for the federal bench since February 16. Under the current rules, a tie vote means that a candidate cannot go to a vote in the full Senate.
Senator Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who has become president of the judicial committee when Feinstein abandoned the role After the criticism of the activists, said Politico Last month, he was “anxious” because they could not advance new candidates without Feinstein returning.
In a statement Wednesday evening, Feinstein said that she expected to return to work by the end of March, but that the “continuous complications” had prevented her.
“I intend to come back as soon as possible once my medical team informs that it is sure for me to travel,” she said in the press release. “In the meantime, I remain attached to employment and will continue to work at home in San Francisco.”
Recognizing that her absence complicated things for her colleagues, Feinstein said that she had temporarily asked the head of the majority of Senate Chuck Schumer to appoint another democrat to the Committee.
