Dianne Feinstein set to return to Senate after nearly 3-month absence

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is returning to the Senate after a nearly three-month absence due to health problems, according to a spokesperson for the senator.

Feinstein is expected to cast a vote Wednesday — her first recorded vote since Feb. 16 — after missing 91 floor votes while recovering from shingles, according to an NBC News tally.

With Democrats holding just a single-seat advantage in the Senate, Feinstein’s absence complicated her party’s efforts to confirm some of President Joe Biden's nominees. Her absence was most pronounced on the Judiciary Committee, where an 11-10 majority became a 10-10 stalemate — frustrating Democratic efforts to confirm some judges and scuttling any plans to issue subpoenas on a party-line vote.

An effort by Democrats to temporarily replace Feinstein on the committee with Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., was blocked by Republicans last month, with many saying they could not vote to make it easier for Biden to seat judicial nominees who they found to be radical or otherwise unacceptable.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/dianne-feinstein-set-return-senate-nearly-3-month-absence-due-health-i-rcna83434

[moonscape]

1. Yay!

[Novara]

2. thank jeebus

[sprinkleeninow]

3. "Missing 91 floor votes..."

[onenote]

17. And do you have a particular point?

For example, in how many of those votes did her absence change the outcome?

If its just numbers of missed votes that matters, then there are some other examples you might want to consider:

Bernie Sanders: July - Sept. 2019, missed 117 out of 124 votes. And from October 2019 to December 2019, he missed 115 out of 115 votes.

Or Joe Biden, from April - June 1988 -- missed 137 out of 137 votes.

[Hassler]

4. I hope this isn't a remake of Weekend at Bernie's

[tinrobot]

8. I don't care if Disney's Imagineers installed animatronics in her body

If her votes win us more judges, that's all that matters.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[Cha]

9. TY.. this is the outcome I was Hoping FOR!

[riversedge]

6. I am glad Feinstein is feeling good enough to return. My elderly aunt

who was in her mid 80's had shingles a few years ago--She was literally out of living for about 5 months. She never had missed a Sunday at mass and was devested that she missed mass so much. She was physically ill a lot of the time. But happy she lost some weight during the ordeal. She is trucking around with her walker last couple of years.

I hope Pres Biden can hurry and get his judical nominees appointed and placed. ---before someone else gets sick

[maxsolomon]

7. Pressure campaigns work?

One little NYT Editorial and bam, she's back.

[Cha]

10. After 3 Months of Healing.. I doubt

she was purposely staying away.

[maxsolomon]

12. I didn't say she was.

I was making a joke, but apparently there's no joking about Dianne Feinstein on DU.

[Igel]

15. There's little joking about the elderly and sick.

Especially when they're (D).

Not many jokes about Fetterman, and he wasn't elderly.

[maxsolomon]

16. There's humor to be found in everything.

If you look hard enough. Life is absurd.

[onenote]

18. Okay. Prove it. Make a joke about the Texas shooting.

After all, if there is humor in everything, you should be able to post a knee-slapper.

[maxsolomon]

21. jeez, i guess you win.

black humor shouldn't exist.

[Hortensis]

20. :) Life sure is. Humor's a survival mechanism, which is pretty

absurd in itself since we all die anyway. Hope she was able to chuckle her way back on her feet.

Antagonists hostile to Feinstein specifically also could have written the post discussed, which clears the TOS bar, so misunderstanding not a huge surprise. As it is,

[steventh]

11. Hooray! Sen Feinstein is one determined woman.

So glad she has rallied her energies and health and will return. Such good news for truth and justice.

[Marcuse]

13. Welcome back, Senator. Whatever it takes to complete the mission.

[bdamomma]

19. for real

she's a trooper.

[Submariner]

14. Please don't ever hug it out with Lindsey Graham again please

The Liberal audience did not deserve that kind of slap in the face from one of our own. It was a depressing look.