{"id":1914571,"date":"2023-04-14T01:25:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-suggests-calls-for-sen-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-are-sexist\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:33:17","slug":"nancy-pelosi-suggests-calls-for-sen-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-are-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nancy-pelosi-suggests-calls-for-sen-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-are-sexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi Suggests Calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Resign Are Sexist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fnancy-pelosi-suggests-calls-for-sen-dianne-feinstein-to-resign-are-sexist%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=1914571&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\/4d32bf87-5d5c-4251-b5c3-8748af8c83ce\/audio.mp3?length=4084749&#038;duration=340\"><\/div>\n<p>Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) has rejected calls by fellow Democrats for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), an 89-year-old woman, to resign due to poor health, and suggested that sexism was behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein was diagnosed with shingles in February and has been absent from the Senate ever since. Several House Democrats have urged her to resign, but Pelosi criticized these voices, implying that sexism was at play.<\/p>\n<p>During a Capitol Hill press conference, Pelosi told reporters, \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to me. I don\u2019t know what political agendas are at work that are going after Sen. Feinstein in that way. I\u2019ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.\u201d Pelosi added that Feinstein &#8220;deserves the respect to get well and be back on duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.) also suggested that there was a double standard behind calls for Feinstein to resign. In a tweet, Torres said, \u201cWhen women age or get sick, the men are quick to push them aside.&#8221; Torres added without providing any specific examples to support her claim that \u201cWhen men age or get sick, they get a promotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Democrat Lawmakers Urge Feinstein to Resign<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) was the first lawmaker to call on Feinstein to quit. He tweeted, \u201cWhile she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.&#8221; Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) echoed Khanna&#8217;s sentiment, calling Feinstein a \u201cremarkable American whose contributions to our country are immeasurable.&#8221; However, he added that forcing Feinstein to stay on as a senator while absent for an extended period was not in the interests of her constituents.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein\u2019s failure to attend Senate Judiciary Committee meetings has prevented Democrats from advancing their nominees through the committee for a Senate floor vote. Khanna said in a statement to NBC News that Feinstein\u2019s absence was holding up President Joe Biden\u2019s judicial nominations. \u201cWe have a crisis in the judiciary with extremist judges stripping away women\u2019s rights. You can\u2019t 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,\u201d Khanna said. \u201cIt\u2019s time for California officials who care deeply about reproductive rights to call on her to step down at this moment in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Feinstein Responds<\/h2>\n<p>Feinstein responded to calls for her resignation by saying that the Senate should appoint a temporary replacement to sit in for her on the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Wednesday, she said, \u201cI understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I\u2019ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I\u2019m able to resume my committee work.\u201d Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) confirmed that in accordance with Feinstein\u2019s request, he would ask the Senate next week to let someone take her spot on the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Although she initially expected to return to her duty on Capitol Hill by the end of March, Feinstein\u2019s medical team advised against it due to continued health complications related to her shingles diagnosis. She stated that she would come back when her doctors approve that it\u2019s safe for her to travel and added that she would continue to work from home in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3736003\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/03\/16\/feinstein-with-glasses-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 3, 2021. (Greg Nash\/Pool\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which triggers a painful skin rash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) has suggested that sexism was behind calls by fellow Democrats for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), an 89-year-old woman, to resign due to poor health. Feinstein has been absent from the Senate since February, when she was diagnosed with shingles. 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