Veteran Sen. Dianna Feinstein is sometimes unable to recognize longtime colleagues or keep up with arguments in the chamber, according to a new report. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that in a recent conversation with another congressman, Feinstein, 88, who recently lost her husband, “repeated the same small-talk questions … with no apparent appreciation, the two had already had a similar conversation.” Chronicle report states that “four U.S. Senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein employees and the California Democratic Member of Congress” told them “that their memory is deteriorating rapidly” and that they “cannot carry out their professional duties without them.” can fulfil”. Your employees do much of the work required to represent California’s nearly 40 million residents.” The sources said that on her good days, Feinstein is “almost as perceptive as she used to be,” and the Chronicle pointed out that she performed well in the confirmation hearings for new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. A source described as “an associate of a California Democrat” told the newspaper, “There’s a joke on the hill, we have a great junior senator in Alex Padilla and a veteran associate in Feinstein’s office,” the statement said Feinstein: “The last year has been extremely painful and distracting for me, flying back and forth to visit my dying husband who passed away just a few weeks ago. But there is no question that I still serve and deliver for the people of California and I will compare my record to anyone.”
Read it in the San Francisco Chronicle