{"id":1914778,"date":"2023-04-14T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/khanna-rejects-pelosis-claim-that-calls-for-feinstein-to-resign-are-sexist\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:12:58","slug":"khanna-rejects-pelosis-claim-that-calls-for-feinstein-to-resign-are-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/khanna-rejects-pelosis-claim-that-calls-for-feinstein-to-resign-are-sexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Khanna Rejects Pelosi\u2019s Claim That Calls for 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%2Fkhanna-rejects-pelosis-claim-that-calls-for-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=1914778&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\/0414\/659913e1-54fc-4b6e-bee1-66dd5a57861d\/audio.mp3?length=3948237&#038;duration=329\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ro Khanna, a Democratic congressman from California, has rejected the comments of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that calls for Senator Dianne Feinstein to resign are sexist.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Feinstein has been absent from the Senate since February when she was diagnosed with shingles. Several Democratic lawmakers, including Khanna, have requested her resignation, believing her prolonged absence from Congress is delaying important committee work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi criticized these calls, suggesting they had roots in sexism. &#8220;I am unaware of the political agenda behind attacking Senator Feinstein in this way. I have never seen this insult directed at a male senator who was sick in this manner,&#8221; Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Another Democrat lawmaker, Representative Norma Torres from California, similarly suggested that there was a gender-based double standard behind the call for Feinstein to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Khanna pushed back and said that the call for Feinstein\u2019s resignation has nothing to do with sexism. He was asked about Pelosi\u2019s comments during an interview with Fox News\u2019 America\u2019s Newsroom. \u201cI do not believe that gender is a factor in this,\u201d Khanna said. \u201cI do not know of any other job where you can continue to hold a position if you are incapable of fulfilling your duties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5151413\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/27\/id5151413-GettyImages-1432881821-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Ro Khanna speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on Oct. 12, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>What Caused the Demand for Feinstein\u2019s Resignation?<\/h2>\n<p>The absence of Feinstein, a key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has prevented Democrats from advancing their nominees through the committee and to a vote on the Senate floor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khanna, who was the first Democratic lawmaker to call for Feinstein&#8217;s resignation, made a statement to NBC News explaining his reasons.\u00a0\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 Sen. Feinstein misses vote after vote to confirm pro-choice judges,\u201d\u00a0Khanna said.\u00a0\u201cIt&#8217;s time for officials in California who care about reproductive rights to call for her to step down at this historic moment.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein has responded to the calls for her resignation and proposed that the Senate appoint a temporary replacement to take her place on the Judiciary Committee.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that my absence could delay the important work of the Judiciary Committee, so I&#8217;ve asked [Senate Majority] Leader [Chuck] Schumer [D-N.Y.] to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I&#8217;m able to resume my committee work,\u201d Feinstein said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She initially expected to return to work by the end of March but her return to Washington has been delayed due to complications related to her illness.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3742027\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20\/feinstein-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Dianne Feinstein attends a Senate hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on June 16, 2020. (Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call\/POOL)<\/figure>\n<p>Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is an illness that causes a painful skin rash, according to the National Institute of Health (NIH).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) has pushed back against comments made by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to resign are sexist. Feinstein has been absent from the Senate since February, when she was diagnosed with shingles. A number of Democrat lawmakers\u2014including Khanna\u2014have called for Feinstein to resign owing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":1914779,"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":[3755,4893,9094,12748,9323,5009,4495,6514],"class_list":["post-1914778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-calls","tag-claim","tag-feinstein","tag-khanna","tag-pelosis","tag-rejects","tag-resign","tag-sexist"],"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\/1914778","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}