Senator Dianne Feinstein

2022 - 4 - 14

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Report: California Senator Dianne Feinstein's Memory is “Rapidly ... (Vanity Fair)

The 88-year-old lawmaker is allegedly struggling to recognize colleagues and follow policy discussions, people close to the California Democrat told the San ...

“I don’t feel my cognitive abilities have diminished,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 2020, following the publication of the New Yorker report. “There’s no question I’m still serving and delivering for the people of California,” she said in a statement, “and I’ll put my record up against anyone’s.” While the colleagues who raised concerns about her condition said that her memory lapses “do not appear to be constant,” they recounted distressing episodes that raised significant questions about her ability to govern. Feinstein, whose term is not up until 2024 — at which point she will be 91 years old — has had a distinguished, groundbreaking political career — first as a San Francisco city official and mayor and, since 1992, a U.S. senator. She deserves better,” the lawmaker added. “And it’s getting worse.”

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Senator Dianne Feinstein faces pressure to end her 30 years ... (The Conversation AU)

Concerns are growing about Dianne Feinstein's ability to finish out her Senate term. That won't dim the accomplishments of her extraordinary career, ...

For San Franciscans of a certain age, she will forever be known as the woman who stepped in at one extraordinary and tragic moment and helped us believe our city would survive. Feinstein is a trailblazer and one of the most successful women in American political history, but not one of its greatest senators. Her greatest legislative accomplishment remains her work on the assault weapons ban in 1994. But Feinstein was well liked, an electoral powerhouse long before California took on its current political shade of deep blue, and a generally reliable Democratic vote on major legislation. It was a foggy morning, and Feinstein greeted reporters at City Hall by telling them she would not seek reelection to the board of supervisors, San Francisco’s equivalent to the city council. As mayor, living primarily in tony Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights, she led the city through a tumultuous time of change. More recently, she literally embraced the Republican senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina at the conclusion of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Feinstein’s mother was emotionally distant, according to her biographer Jerry Roberts, but she was close with her father, a prominent doctor who encouraged her ambition. There’s a photo of this caper in my high school yearbook. This kind of urban governance – later exemplified in Michael Bloomberg’s 12-year mayorship of New York City – is pretty common now. But San Francisco was always her home, even after three decades in Washington. This issue is being raised not by Republicans seeking to score political points, but by Democratic colleagues and congressional staff.

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Senator Dianne Feinstein Fights Back After Reports of Her Being ... (NBC Bay Area)

California Senator Dianne Feinstein released a statement Thursday after a news report detailed lawmakers' concern about her ability to serve in Congress.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she has no plans to step down after ... (New York Post)

California Senator Dianne Feinstein defended herself against her Democratic colleagues and said she has no plans to step down following a report that ...

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein defends her job performance, says she won't ... (San Francisco Chronicle)

But four senators and a California Democratic member of Congress as well as three former Feinstein staffers told The Chronicle that her short-term memory is ...

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US Senator Dianne Feinstein, 88, will NOT step down before her ... (Daily Mail)

Senator Dianne Feinstein, 88, said she 'regularly' meets with leaders and isn't 'isolated' after four senators, a California Congress member, ...

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein Responds After Colleagues' Accounts That ... (PEOPLE.com)

It's bad, and it's getting worse,” a Democratic senator said of the California lawmaker — who said in a statement, "I'm still an effective representative"

"Senator Feinstein is a workhorse for the people of California and a respected leader among her colleagues in the Senate," she said. She deserves better," the Democratic lawmaker said. "My attendance is good, I do the homework, I try to ask hard questions," she said at the time. At times, she was coherent and appeared composed, according to the report, which cited her turns questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings last month as an example of her good days. "I have worked with her for a long time and long enough to know what she was like just a few years ago: always in command, always in charge, on top of the details, basically couldn't resist a conversation where she was driving some bill or some idea. "Because I try to be very careful and I'm puzzled by it."

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Let Dianne Feinstein Leave the Senate on Her Own Terms (New York Magazine)

Public fretting about 88-year-old California senator Dianne Feinstein's mental fitness seems designed to push her to resign. It should take more than gossip ...

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein pushes back against reports of her being ... (NBC News)

“The real question is whether I'm still an effective representative for 40 million Californians, and the record shows that I am,” the 88-year-old Democrat ...

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Feinstein defends service following report about deteriorating ... (CNN)

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein defended her position as senior senator representing California following a news report published Thursday that lawmakers ...

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Feinstein pushes back on lawmakers' accounts that she is mentally ... (The Washington Post)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) insists that she remains a productive senator at the age of 88.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein defends service following report about ... (The Mercury News)

April 15, 2022 at 6:45 a.m.. By Daniella Diaz | CNN. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein defended her position as senior senator representing California following ...

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Dianne Feinstein and the Problem of the Oldest Senate Ever (The Atlantic)

In the opening of the story, an unnamed Democratic member of Congress from California recounted that “they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein multiple ...

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein Fires Back; 'Record Shows That I Am ... (CBS San Francisco)

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/CNN) — A day after a San Francisco Chronicle article questioned her leadership abilities, Sen. Dianne Feinstein issued a strong ...

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California Senator Dianne Feinstein health problems? Democrat ... (WTVD-TV)

Sen. Dianne Feinstein defended her position following a report that her colleagues are concerned about her memory and ability to serve in the Senate.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein pushes back against reports of her being ... (CNBC)

"The real question is whether I'm still an effective representative for 40 million Californians, and the record shows that I am," she said.

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Is Dianne Feinstein still up to the job? (The Washington Post)

Feinstein is the oldest sitting senator, but she is far from the only official whose mental acuity has been called into question.

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