U.S. Senate dean of age, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein announced her resignation Tuesday after more than 30 years in office. party with facts. But her work has been questioned by the left wing of her party for several years now, especially after an investigative report revealed her cognitive decline.
“Today I am announcing that I will not run for re-election in 2024, but I intend to do my best for California before the end of next year,” Feinstein said in a statement. President Joe Biden called her a “close friend”, noting her pioneering role in the work of women in politics. “Often the only woman in the room, she was determined to lift America up,” he said in a statement, praising her “intelligence” and “compassion.”
Thus, Feinstein will leave the Senate at the age of 91. Before entering it, she served ten years as mayor of San Francisco following the 1978 assassination of her predecessor, George Moscone, and outgoing politician Harvey Milk. In the Senate in 1994, he successfully passed a ten-year ban on assault weapons.
She also supported George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and established herself as an influential member of the Intelligence Committee. In a thousand-page report, he exposed the CIA’s lies about torture in the “war on terror.” The California Senator has played a leading role in revising hundreds of laws in her career.
“Even with a divided Congress, we can still pass laws to improve everyday life. Each of us is here to offer solutions,” she added in a statement. But in recent years, the senator has been repeatedly questioned, especially by her own party, about her tenacity.
And her former assistants spoke about bouts of confusion in an article published by The New Yorker magazine in late 2020. At the same time, she also developed symptoms of memory loss, while the Senate listened to the former head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, as she asked him the same question twice in a row.
After the pandemic, Feinstein limited her public appearances outside of Congress and lost her husband in early 2022. “California and the country owe a lot to Senator Feinstein,” Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. into public service, making our country fairer, safer and stronger.”
