Update: Senate Republicans blocked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's request to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein with Sen. Ben Cardin on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday afternoon.
being hospitalized with shinglesSchumer’s choice of replacing Feinstein with Cardin wouldn't have changed the calculus for Republicans, according to a senior GOP aide, who told Axios before the vote: "That ship has sailed."
His unanimous consent request for the substitution was blocked by Sen. Lindsey Graham on behalf of Republicans, which means Schumer will have to put it to a full floor vote.whether Feinstein should consider resigning if she does not return by May. "I spoke to Sen. Feinstein just a few days ago and she and I are both very hopeful that she will return very soon," Schumer said before announcing Cardin would be his top pick and that he would try to get unanimous consent to swap the two senators.
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