{"id":1923471,"date":"2023-05-03T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dianne-feinstein-hoping-to-make-return-to-senate-next-week\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T15:13:32","slug":"dianne-feinstein-hoping-to-make-return-to-senate-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dianne-feinstein-hoping-to-make-return-to-senate-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Dianne Feinstein Hoping to Make Return to Senate Next Week"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fdianne-feinstein-hoping-to-make-return-to-senate-next-week%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=1923471&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--><p> \t\t\t\tSen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is \u201chopeful\u201d she will return to the U.S. Senate next week, according to notes from Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI spoke with Sen.\u00a0Feinstein yesterday [Monday]. We are both hopeful she can return next week,\u201d the\u00a0Senate majority leader\u2019s notes said\u00a0at Tuesday\u2019s press conference. The California senator\u2019s return was listed as a possible response if asked if it was time to tell\u00a0Feinstein to return or resign so the Senate could deal with the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p> Feinstein, who is\u00a089 years old and plans to retire at the end of her current term, has been\u00a0absent from work since\u00a0early March after she was\u00a0hospitalized with shingles.\u00a0In her absence, the\u00a0Senate Judiciary Committee has remained at a\u00a0deadlocked 10-10 on many issues, splitting the committee in half between Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>   Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks, as Sen. Chuck Schumer listens, during a press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2018. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p> However, Feinstein will be a crucial vote if the Senate Democrats want to block the House Republicans\u2019 debt ceiling plan. But, President Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, had raised alarms on Monday after saying the debt ceiling could be reached by June 1.<\/p>\n<p> Schumer did not\u00a0address the specific question during his press conference, according to\u00a0Politico, but the Senate majority leader\u2019s\u00a0spokesperson told the publication that\u00a0\u201cIt was in his notes, and he would have said [it] if someone asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>   On Tuesday,\u00a0Politico noted that the California\u00a0Democrat\u2019s\u00a0office said she\u00a0\u201ccontinues to make progress in her recovery\u201d after being hospitalized. Still, her\u00a0staff \u201cdon\u2019t have a timeline yet for her return to Washington, which is dependent on her medical team saying it is safe to travel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Her office also confirmed to Politico that\u00a0the two senators spoke on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com\u00a0or follow him on Twitter\u00a0@JacobMBliss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is \u201chopeful\u201d she will return to the U.S. Senate next week, according to notes from Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer (D-NY). \u201cI spoke with Sen.\u00a0Feinstein yesterday [Monday]. We are both hopeful she can return next week,\u201d the\u00a0Senate majority leader\u2019s notes said\u00a0at Tuesday\u2019s press conference. 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