.IChotiner speaks with the Democratic senator Debbie Stabenow about why she sees double standards at work in the calls for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s resignation, and her sense of Feinstein’s mental capacities.
was hospitalized with shingles. Feinstein, who is eighty-nine, and who has held her seat in Congress for more than three decades, has been planning to retire after her term expires next year. But there have been concerns about whether she has the ability—and the mental acuity—to carry out her job till then. A year ago, the San Francisco, “Four U.S.
To get to your question, she is now eighty-nine, the oldest sitting United States senator. When I came in, Strom Thurmond was in the Senate. He stayed until he was a hundred years old. He wanted to be the first senator to hit a hundred years old, but he literally would lie down in the reading room off of the reception area of the Senate. Then, for voting, they would put him in a wheelchair, and he would come in to vote. I don’t recall people saying that he should step down.
I don’t know if anyone called for Thurmond to resign. He was certainly a joke by the end of his career, but I don’t think he was serving on an evenly divided Judiciary Committee and therefore keeping his party’s nominees from coming up for a vote. No, no, no. You were asking me how I was reacting in terms of the feelings, and the criticisms, and so on. No, of course. But Senator Feinstein, being responsible, suggested that she be replaced, and Republicans blocked it. The theory is that she resigns and then someone is appointed. It’s not clear if they would even seat that person. We would assume they would have to, but I’m just saying it’s more complicated than people think.should resign.
You said that you didn’t want public calls, and that it should be more of a private thing. But these are incredibly important public roles. I’m a little wary of saying that holding these jobs is a personal matter. Actually, the most important thing is that you’re one of a hundred or one of nine, and you need to think of yourself that way.
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