The dean of the American Senate Dianne Feinstein, a historic figure in the Democratic Party, has died at the age of 90, American media announced this Friday, September 29. The first female mayor of San Francisco before serving as a senator from California for more than 30 years, Dianne Feinstein was recognized as a tenacious politician and an influential pillar of the upper house of Congress.
But she had been criticized by the left of the Democratic Party for several months after a journalistic investigation which highlighted her cognitive decline. Punchbowl News, a media outlet specializing in news from the American Congress, provided the information, as did a local ABC channel. The senator voted again in Congress Thursday morning.
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She announced her political retirement in February, letting it be known that she would not run again in the 2024 elections. President Joe Biden then praised the qualities of Dianne Feinstein, a ” close friend “notably evoking her role as a pioneer for women in politics.
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Dianne Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco for ten years, after the assassination in 1978 of her predecessor George Moscone and of the politician Harvey Milk, a figure of the gay movement, a tragedy during which this woman was able to show her determination.
Doubts about its political coherence
In the Senate, she notably passed the ban – for ten years – on assault rifles in 1994. She also supported George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and established herself as an influential member of the committee on information. His report of several thousand pages demonstrating the CIA’s lies about torture under the “war on terrorism” remained in the annals.
The California senator has played a leading role in the consideration of hundreds of laws during her career. In recent years, however, the elected official has eroded her political capital due to persistent doubts about her coherence, often expressed by her own camp.
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Former parliamentary aides described episodes of mental confusion, reported in an article in the “New Yorker” at the end of 2020. His memory lapses also came to light at that time during the hearing of the ex-boss of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, in front of the Senate: she asked him the same question, word for word, twice in a row.
His case was regularly cited during debates on the old age of many elected officials in the United States. President Joe Biden, who is running, is 80 years old, and his competitor and predecessor Donald Trump, 77 years old. The former Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, 83, announced in early September that she would be a candidate again in California.
2023-09-29 14:41:05
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