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In reply to the discussion: Dear Senator Dianne Feinstein: This is not about you. [View all]onenote
(42,830 posts)She came down with an illness that kept her away from the Senate for one month. During the two months that preceded her illness, she missed only two votes out of 24 -- a better record than Fetterman, Sanders, and Casey. She stood on the Senate floor and introduced bills. Leading up to 2023 -- the final 9 months of 2022 -- she missed only 2 votes out of nearly 300. During the 117th Congress she was the primary sponsor of as many bills as many of her colleagues -- Ron Wyden to name just one -- and she was able to get more of those bills passed by the Senate than many of her colleagues.
Even her absence for the month of March hasn't had any significant impact -- 14 Biden judicial nominees were confirmed. Moreover, before she contracted shingles she was present for Judiciary Committee meetings and thus made it possible for 20 more nominees to be approved at the Committee level -- nominees that are still waiting for Schumer to bring them to the floor for reasons that have nothing to do with Feinstein being unavailable.