{"id":1914231,"date":"2023-04-13T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fellow-democrats-call-for-sen-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-amid-ongoing-health-issues\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:20:06","slug":"fellow-democrats-call-for-sen-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-amid-ongoing-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fellow-democrats-call-for-sen-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-amid-ongoing-health-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow Democrats Call for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Resign Amid Ongoing Health Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffellow-democrats-call-for-sen-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-amid-ongoing-health-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1914231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0413\/b63c9bed-6787-4c5c-9f4b-666c470e0a4e\/audio.mp3?length=2560941&#038;duration=213\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats are urging Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to retire from the Senate due to concerns over the impact of her prolonged absence as she copes with ongoing health issues.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) have both taken to Twitter on April 12th to call for the resignation of the 89-year-old senator, claiming that she can no longer fulfill her duties.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein, who is recuperating from the shingles virus, had already announced in February that she would not run for re-election in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time for @SenFeinstein to resign,&#8221; Khanna wrote in a tweet. &#8220;We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty. While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties. Not speaking out undermines our credibility as elected representatives of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khanna has expressed his calls for Feinstein&#8217;s departure more in detail in a statement to NBC News, highlighting her critical role at the Judiciary Committee and explaining how her absence is delaying President Joe Biden&#8217;s judicial nominations in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a crisis in the judiciary with extremist judges stripping away women&#8217;s rights. You can&#8217;t preach on television about the danger of these judges and then sit silently as Senator Feinstein misses vote after vote to confirm pro-choice judges,&#8221; Khanna said. &#8220;It&#8217;s time for California officials who care deeply about reproductive rights to call on her to step down at this moment in history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Dereliction of Duty&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Phillips of Minnesota also agrees with Khanna, stating on Twitter, &#8220;I agree with @RoKhanna. Senator Feinstein is a remarkable American whose contributions to our country are immeasurable. But I believe it&#8217;s now a dereliction of duty to remain in the Senate and a dereliction of duty for those who agree to remain quiet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein, who was first elected to the Senate in 1992, is the longest-serving senator in her state&#8217;s history, the longest-serving female senator in U.S. history, and is the oldest sitting member of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>However, she has not been present for Senate voting since mid-February when she was diagnosed with shingles, a viral infection that causes an unpleasant rash and blisters on one side of the body.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shingles is usually not life-threatening and most people typically recover within two to four weeks. However, elderly individuals who have compromised immune systems are more prone to severe complications.<\/p>\n<h2>Feinstein Strikes Back<\/h2>\n<p>Following her diagnosis announcement, Feinstein stated in a release that she was receiving treatment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are calling on\u00a0Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to retire early after more than 30 years in the Senate due to concerns over the impacts of her lengthy absence as she battles ongoing health issues. Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna\u00a0(D-Calif.) and Dean Phillips\u00a0(D-Minn.) took to\u00a0Twitter on April 12 to call on the 89-year-old to step down, claiming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1914232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[3685,14256,9094,13496,4964,4065,4085,4495,7025],"class_list":["post-1914231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-democrats","tag-dianne","tag-feinstein","tag-fellow","tag-health","tag-issues","tag-ongoing","tag-resign","tag-sen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}