{"id":1984268,"date":"2023-07-27T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-90-year-old-feinstein-told-just-say-aye-at-vote-on-defense-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:22:44","slug":"watch-90-year-old-feinstein-told-just-say-aye-at-vote-on-defense-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-90-year-old-feinstein-told-just-say-aye-at-vote-on-defense-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: 90-Year-Old Feinstein Advised to Vote &#8216;Aye&#8217; on Defense Bill"},"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\">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%2Fwatch-90-year-old-feinstein-told-just-say-aye-at-vote-on-defense-bill%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=1984268&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--><div>\n<h2>Confusion Strikes Senator Feinstein \u2064During Committee Hearing<\/h2>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-he-wont-pull-tanden-nomination-as-key-dem-refuses-support-over-partisan-concerns\/\" title=\"Biden Says He Won\u2019t Pull Tanden Nomination As Key Dem Refuses Support Over \u2018Partisan\u2019 Concerns\">recent committee hearing<\/a>, Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), 90, found herself in a moment of confusion that required \u2062some guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Feinstein was asked to participate \u200cin a <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> \u2064on the Defense Appropriations\u200d Act,\u200d but instead of casting her vote, she began delivering a speech in \u2064support of the bill. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to support a \u2018yes\u2019 vote on\u200d this. It provides \u2063$823 billion, that&#8217;s an increase of $26 billion for the Department of Defense and it\u200d funds priorities&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It took a staffer&#8217;s intervention and fellow Democratic senator Patty Murray (Wash.) stepping in to remind \u200dFeinstein to simply say \u2064&#8221;aye&#8221; for her vote. <\/p>\n<p>Feinstein&#8217;s response, &#8220;Okay &#8230; just?&#8221; before finally giving her affirmative vote, highlights the latest \u2064incident in a series\u200d of confusing moments for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dangling-by-a-thread-democrats-are-worried-elderly-senators-could-derail-bidens-agenda-by-dying\/\" title=\"\u2018Dangling By A Thread\u2019: Democrats Are Worried Elderly Senators Could Derail Biden\u2019s Agenda By Dying\">elderly senator<\/a>. Earlier this year, she was absent for three months due to a severe \u200ccase of shingles, which caused vision and balance impairments from Ramsay Hunt \u2064syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Upon her\u2064 return in May, Feinstein seemed to have forgotten about her absence, stating to reporters, \u200c&#8221;No, I haven&#8217;t been gone. \u2062No, I&#8217;ve been here. I&#8217;ve been voting. Please. You either know or don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats, \u200bincluding Reps. \u200dRo \u2064Khanna\u200c (Calif.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), have called for Feinstein to step\u200c down following her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-90-year-old-feinstein-told-just-say-aye-at-vote-on-defense-bill\/\" title=\"VIDEO: 90-Year-Old Feinstein Advised to Vote 'Aye' on Defense Bill\">prolonged health struggle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In February, Feinstein announced her plans to \u200bretire after \u200cthis \u200bterm, but she \u200dquickly seemed to have \u200cforgotten about the announcement. <\/p>\n<p>A \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-ex-wife-to-break-silence-in-gma-interview\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's Ex-Wife to Break Silence in GMA Interview\">book released earlier<\/a> this year revealed another mishap, where Feinstein\u2062 mistook one black senator \u2062for \u2064another. In 2021, \u200cshe approached \u2062Sen.\u2062 Tim Scott (R., S.C.) and congratulated him on his service, mistaking him for \u2063Raphael\u2063 Warnock, \u2064the newly elected Democratic senator from Georgia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a committee hearing, 90-year-old Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) needed a reminder to simply say &#8220;aye&#8221; during a vote. Instead of promptly responding to a roll call vote on the Defense Appropriations Act, Feinstein started delivering a speech in favor of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1984269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1984268","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}