Dianne Feinstein’s Hospitalization Leaves Senate Democrats Without Outright Majority

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The lord works in mysterious ways.

Feinstein will be 90 years old this June.

Dianne Feinstein’s Hospitalization Leaves Senate Democrats Without Outright Majority

By: Jordan Dixon-Hamilton, Breitbart News, 2 Mar 2023:

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) announced that she was hospitalized on Thursday and is receiving treatment for shingles, leaving Senate Democrats without an outright majority this week as two other senators are also away from the Capitol.

Feinstein confirmed her hospitalization on Thursday after her spokesperson announced she was leaving D.C. for California to focus on a “health matter.”

“I was diagnosed over the February recess with a case of shingles. I have been hospitalized and am receiving treatment in San Francisco and expect to make a full recovery. I hope to return to the Senate later this month,” the 89-year-old California senator said.

Feinstein has missed numerous votes and committee hearings since she began feeling unwell, according to her spokesperson Adam Russell. Feinstein, who has nearly two years left in her term, announced last month that she will not seek reelection in 2024.

Feinstein is not the only Democrat senator currently absent from the upper chamber.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been hospitalized since mid-February, with no expected return date, as he is receiving treatment for “clinical depression.”

Further, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) flew to his home state after his mother died earlier in the week.

However, Senate Republicans are also down one member as Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) is out due to contracting the coronavirus.

Although Senate Democrats started the new congress with a 51-49 advantage, control of the Senate, this week has functionally become a 48-48 majority, forcing Vice President Kamala Harris to step up and cast multiple tie-breaking votes.

As the Washington Examiner reported:

The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 49-48 in favor of one of Biden’s judicial nominees, Margaret Guzman, to become the first Hispanic federal judge in Massachusetts. Harris also had to break a 48-48 deadlock on Tuesday to confirm Araceli Martinez-Olguin to serve as a federal judge in the Northern District of California.

White House deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton reportedly refused to comment on whether President Joe Biden’s administration is concerned that some Democrat senators’ absences may derail the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Labor, Julie Su.

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TomSJr
TomSJr
1 year ago

NO ONE THAT OLD AND/OR OVER 70 SHOULD EVER LEGALLY BE ALLOWED TO SERVE IN CONGRESS!!!!!

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
1 year ago
Reply to  TomSJr

or the presidency

Gandalf Trouserpress
Gandalf Trouserpress
1 year ago
Reply to  turtlebrat

Or should take a cognitive test – DJT is still spot on. Joe is not well.

T D
T D
1 year ago
Reply to  TomSJr

While I am sorry that Feinstein is in the hospital,

we also have to recall that Slime-stein was one of the leaders of the Kavanuagh witch-trial. Putting a man on trial in front of millions was a disgrace. People fell for that hoax in the 2018 elections.

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
1 year ago

But mitch and other rinos are still there.

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
1 year ago

The Democrat Party is a Leper.

Cassandra
Cassandra
1 year ago

Shingles is a disorder of the immune system, time that mummified commie kicked the bucket…

Keith1941D
Keith1941
1 year ago
Reply to  Cassandra

Not only a commie, but you might remember when she was steering business to her husband’s companies. She was as bad as Boxer, just smoother. and smarter.

Arnie
Arnie
1 year ago

That idiot was rah-rah the inadequately tested, ineffective, and dangerous COVID vaccine. But she obviously decided not to get a safe and mostly effective shingles vaccine. And to get hospitalized for shingles means it’s a serious case. Usually one gets it and just suffers for a couple of weeks.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

They will just go to the hospital and record her vote there. After giffords was shot and she returned to the congress, even though she had no concept about what was going on, they told her to raise her hand to vote. She had no idea what she was raising her hand for.

edD
ed
1 year ago

Shingles my @ss….she is more brain dead than Biden & Fetterman. COMBINED !!

Andrew
Andrew
1 year ago

It should be mandatory for any politician to retire at the age of 80 no matter how healthy such a person is as the mind is not working fast enough to deal with the complexities of political life and today it must be even harder and faster than ever before.
Old Di Fi as we called her in San Francisco in the 1980s when she was Mayor has done enough damage for one lifetime and she should have been put out to pasture ages ago.
She got into her position in public life after Dan White shot dead the Mayor of SF, and Harvey Milk.
She worked her way up to where she is today by doing NOTHING whatsoever but by just staying alive.

LaddyboyD
Laddyboy
1 year ago
Reply to  Andrew

You sir just ALMOST described the political history of Harass!

Creole Gumbo
Creole Gumbo
1 year ago

BS! You don’t get hospitalized for Shingles.

LaddyboyD
Laddyboy
1 year ago

After the HARM this person has done to America through the DemoKKKrat national communist party, there is no “compassion” to show her. “IF ONLY I COULD HAVE GOT 51 VOTES” — I could have STRIPPED MORAL, HONORABLE American Citizens of their Second Amendment RIGHTS. Which by the way OUR AMERICAN Constitution CONFIRMS these RIGHTS existed BEFORE the Constitution was set to pen.

Keith1941D
Keith1941
1 year ago

We’re not supposed to wish ill on anyone, but there are democrats who are actively destroying this country. Actively, they’re not trying anymore.

HardrockD
Hardrock
1 year ago

With any Luck, The Evil Old Hag, “she won’t be back.”

Gandalf Trouserpress
Gandalf Trouserpress
1 year ago

She shall suffer a thousand-fold for her sins.

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