{"id":1984129,"date":"2023-07-27T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-appears-to-have-awkward-moment-reads-speech-during-vote\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:18:07","slug":"feinstein-appears-to-have-awkward-moment-reads-speech-during-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-appears-to-have-awkward-moment-reads-speech-during-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein&#8217;s &#8216;Awkward Moment&#8217;: Reads Speech While Voting"},"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\">14<\/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-appears-to-have-awkward-moment-reads-speech-during-vote%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=1984129&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\u2064 Feinstein (D-CA) \u2064Gets Confused During Vote on\u2062 Capitol Hill<\/h2>\n<p>During a \u200bmarkup of the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-dems-blocking-measure-to-prohibit-imports-made-with-chinese-slave-labor\/\" title=\"Senate Dems Blocking Measure To Prohibit Imports Made With Chinese Slave Labor\">defense appropriations bill<\/a>, senators were asked to participate in a \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-stonewall-paycheck-fairness-act-over-employer-burdens-redundancy\/\" title=\"Republicans Stonewall \u2018Paycheck Fairness Act\u2019 Over Employer Burdens, Redundancy\">roll call vote<\/a>. First\u2064 to \u200dbe\u2062 called was Feinstein, \u2062who began \u2063a speech instead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked to vote on the defense appropriations bill, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) \u2064begins giving a speech: \u201cI would like to support a \u2018yes\u2019 \u200bvote on this. It provides \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Patty Murray \u200b(D-WA): \u201cJust say \u200daye.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gw2eZ9rEMv\">pic.twitter.com\/Gw2eZ9rEMv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1684592538844364802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July\u2062 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She was interrupted by what \u2063appeared to \u2062be a staffer whispering\u200c in \u200dher ear, and Senate Appropriations Chairwoman\u200c Patty\u2064 Murray (D-WA) told Feinstein\u2063 to \u2062\u201cJust say \u2018aye.&#8217;\u201d With a chuckle, Feinstein said \u201cAye,\u201d and the vote continued.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c moment\u2062 caused some in the \u2063press corps to recoil. \u201cThis was quite awkward,\u201d Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio observed on X, formerly Twitter.\u2064 \u201cAwkward moment,\u201d NBC\u2019s Sahil Kapur similarly \u2063noted.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns About Feinstein&#8217;s Mental Fitness<\/h3>\n<p>At 90, Feinstein is the Senate\u2019s oldest\u200c current\u200d member \u2014 and in recent years, some colleagues had \u200cbegun\u200b to raise concerns about her\u2064 mental fitness and ability to do\u200c the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/feinstein-confused-by-vp-harris-doing-her-job-report\">Scrutiny intensified<\/a> after she made \u2064a comeback to the Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/feinstein-returns-to-senate-in-wheelchair-needs-lighter-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a wheelchair<\/a> this spring, ending a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/plight-of-the-pioneers\/\" title=\"Plight of the Pioneers\">months-long absence<\/a> during which the lawmaker was\u2064 receiving treatment for and \u200crecovering from the shingles.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690455510071000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0zc8zwWGoXeRzcNJLiJVWI\">CLICK HERE TO GET\u200b THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Feinstein announced in February she would not seek re-election in 2024. Three prominent\u200b House Democrats \u2014 Reps. Adam Schiff,\u2063 Katie Porter,\u2062 and Barbara Lee \u2014 have announced campaigns to replace \u200bFeinstein in \u2062the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>But some of Feinstein\u2019s fellow Democrats have called\u200c on her to step down before her term\u2063 is up. That includes Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), though he told POLITICO he would give the \u201csituation the benefit of the doubt\u201d and is \u2063\u201chopeful\u201d that Feinstein will be able to fulfill her duties.<\/p>\n<p>Another member of the Senate, 81-year-old\u2062 Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), generated headlines on Wednesday after he momentarily froze while speaking to the press. After being escorted away from the podium, McConnell \u200creturned a short time \u200dlater and said he was \u201cfine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it was already known that McConnell sustained a concussion after\u2064 a fall earlier this year, reports \u200ccame out after the \u2063majority leader\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-appears-to-have-awkward-moment-reads-speech-during-vote\/\" title=\"Feinstein's 'Awkward Moment': Reads Speech While Voting\">news conference freeze<\/a> with \u200csources saying he has fallen at least two other times in the \u2064past several months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) seemed confused during a vote on Capitol Hill. 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