I found her!
Posted on 04/11/2023 6:19:33 PM PDT by Enterprise
At what is clearly a critical time for confirming good federal judges, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) increasingly prolonged absence from the Senate is apparently holding up the process for a number of President Joe Biden’s judicial picks this year.
Feinstein, who was hospitalized in early March for shingles and has remained in her San Francisco home since March 7, has missed 60 votes of the 82 taken in the Senate in 2023, per the San Francisco Chronicle. And as the Senate, which has been on recess since March 31, prepares to return on April 17, Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Monday that Feinstein’s absence from the Senate—and the Judiciary Committee specifically—will impede Democrats’ ability to confirm judicial nominees.
“I can’t consider nominees in these circumstances, because a tie vote is a losing vote in committee,” Durbin told CNN. He continued, “We still have some nominees left on the calendar that we can work on. … But we have more in the wings that we would like to process through the committee.”
Feinstein’s team has been tight-lipped about when, if at all, she’ll return to D.C. Her spokesperson told the Chronicle this week that the 89-year-old “continues to work from home in San Francisco as she recuperates.” Earlier this year, Feinstein announced she won’t seek reelection in 2024 as a handful of Democratic House members vie for her seat. But she intends to serve out the rest of her term, which is set to end in January 2025. That’s close to two years from now, and it’s troubling to consider all the key votes and confirmation processes that could be stalled by Feinstein’s absence—either now or in the future, if she becomes ill again—given Democrats’ razor-thin 51-49 majority.
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89 years old. Health problems, probably senile. Remember when we would laugh about all those aged Soviet politburo members who were... in their 60s and 70s??
She’s dead Jim.
Her staff are working 24/7 trying to jumpstart her brain.
anybody check recent flights into Gitmo?
She should have been put out to pasture at least a decade ago.
Maybe she has crawled into a bottle somewhere for some me time.
Don’t worry. Lindsay will step in and save the day.
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None of the Senate cadavers got covid and died.
But lots of other elder Americans did.
interesting.
Getting mummified somthey can keep her desiccated corpse in the senate forever
LOL!!!
Same with the turtle I suspect.
LOL, good one.
This is a good thing.
The longer she stays missing, the less bad the government acts.
She’s dead Jim.
We need term limits
Is that democrat code for *She's already dead but we're going to see just how long we can pull the wool over everyone's eyes and pretend that she's not*?
She’s dead Jim.
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Or is she living in her “adopted” homeland of China?
anybody check recent flights into Gitmo?
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Or China?
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