As relieved as Democrats are to have her back, they’re loath to openly discuss her condition beyond generic well wishes as her party holds its collective breath.
Dianne Feinstein has taken on a noticeably lighter schedule since she came back from California. She appears in the Senate only at committee hearings or on the floor when her vote is essential.As relieved as Democrats are to have her back to break the logjam on party-line judicial nominees that her absence created, they’re loath to openly discuss her condition beyond generic well wishes. Fellow senators say they aren’t hearing much from her at all.
But the diminished capacity of the senior senator for the nation’s most populated state was already apparent: Once a leading voice against gun violence, she skipped a recent Democratic Caucus meeting on guns. She has not attended regular caucus lunches or any committee activity where her votes are not required.
“I’m back in Washington, voting and attending committee meetings while I recover from complications related to a shingles diagnosis,” one of those statements said. “I continue to work and get results for California.” Lawmakers are generally giving Feinstein plenty of space to make her own decisions about the future, but the senator’s longtime allies are bristling at the continued calls for her to resign.
In a statement, a Feinstein spokesperson acknowledged her continued “complications related to her shingles diagnosis,” including Ramsay Hunt syndrome and encephalitis, which “resolved itself” shortly after she was released from the hospital. But the Judiciary Committee is clearly working around Feinstein, placing nominations on meeting agendas that only get taken up if she is able to appear. And Durbin has been explicit about the constraints of her limited return to work.
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