{"id":1928181,"date":"2023-05-10T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-returns-to-us-senate-giving-democrats-their-majority\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:43:22","slug":"feinstein-returns-to-us-senate-giving-democrats-their-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-returns-to-us-senate-giving-democrats-their-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein back in US Senate, Dems regain majority."},"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\">16<\/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%2Ffeinstein-returns-to-us-senate-giving-democrats-their-majority%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=1928181&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--><h2>Sen. Dianne Feinstein Returns to Work After Shingles Recovery<\/h2>\n<p>After a long recovery from shingles, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) returned to work on Tuesday, giving Democrats their majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee and a one<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rock-bottom-gop-poll-shows-nancy-pelosi-net-favorability-dropping-double-digits-in-past-8-months\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Rock Bottom: GOP Poll Shows Nancy Pelosi Net Favorability Dropping Double Digits in Past 8 Months\">-seat advantage<\/a> in the full Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-returning-to-us-senate-giving-democrats-their-majority\/\" title=\"Feinstein back in Senate, Dems regain majority.\">absence attracted criticism<\/a> from within her party, with some House members calling for her resignation. However, she made an unusual request to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-asks-to-be-temporarily-replaced-on-senate-judiciary-committee-amid-calls-for-resignation\/\" title=\"Feinstein Asks to Be Temporarily Replaced on Senate Judiciary Committee Amid Calls for Resignation\">temporarily replaced<\/a> on the Judiciary Committee due to complications from her recovery.<\/p>\n<h3>Feinstein Defends Her Ability to Carry Out Lawmaking Responsibilities<\/h3>\n<p>Despite facing questions about her cognition and memory in recent years, Feinstein has defended her ability to carry out her duties as a senator. In her absence, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced eight nominees to final votes on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>Now, at 89 years old, Feinstein is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-schiff-to-run-for-u-s-senate-seat-held-by-feinstein\/\" title=\"Adam Schiff to Run for U.S. Senate Seat Held by Feinstein\">oldest sitting senator<\/a>. But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) expressed his pleasure at her return, saying she is &#8220;ready to roll up her sleeves and get to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Feinstein&#8217;s Return to Congress<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Feinstein boarded a flight from California to Washington on Tuesday<\/li>\n<li>Her absence attracted criticism from within her party<\/li>\n<li>She made an unusual request to be temporarily replaced on the Judiciary Committee<\/li>\n<li>Republicans rejected her request, saying Democrats only want someone in her place to push through partisan judicial nominations<\/li>\n<li>Feinstein missed almost 100 floor votes during her absence<\/li>\n<li>The Senate Judiciary Committee was unable to move several nominees through the panel and canceled three straight markups<\/li>\n<li>Four nominations to fill vacant federal court positions require Feinstein&#8217;s presence to proceed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the challenges she faced during her recovery, Feinstein is back where she wants to be and ready to deliver for California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u00a0(D-Calif.) returned to work on Tuesday following a long recovery from shingles. Her return gives back Democrats their majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as a one-seat Democrat advantage in the full Senate. Feinstein\u2019s office said she boarded a flight from her California home to Washington earlier on Tuesday, ahead of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":1928182,"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":[3933,9094,5049,7554,3740],"class_list":["post-1928181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-dems","tag-feinstein","tag-majority","tag-regain","tag-senate"],"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\/1928181","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\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}