The name being floated for a temporary replacement? Kyrsten Sinema.
We are now in week two of the Dianne Feinstein saga, in which Democrats’ willingness to jeopardize their own agenda to accommodate the ailing, absentee senator will be on full display.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, per Feinstein’s request, is asking that Feinstein be allowed to be temporarily removed, and replaced, on the all-important Senate Judiciary Committee, which has been gummed up for months due to her absence. The California senator was diagnosed with shingles in March, and her office does not have a timetable for her return to Washington DC.The timing is crucial.
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