Just a week after her return to the US Senate after a roughly three-month absence, questions continue to swirl around Sen. Dianne Feinstein
The 89-year-old Democrat had been recovering from shingles at home in California, and had been absent from the Hill since February. Her long-awaited return on May 10 not only meant that the Senate Democratic Caucus would be at full attendance – since both Feinstein and Pennsylvania Sen.
John Cornyn said that he is “not qualified to render a diagnosis,” but criticized some Democrats for calling on her to resign. “That seems a little harsh to me. I think that decision ought to be made by Senator Feinstein,” he said. Questions about a Senator’s health, and whispers about their fitness to serve, are not new. In the past decades, the median age of the Senate has ticked increasingly upward, with the 118th Congress median age at 65.3 years, according to the Pew Research Center.
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