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KTSM News – Sen. Dianne Feinstein dies at age 90

Posted on September 29, 2023

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one of the Senate’s most prominent women, has died at the age of 90, a person with knowledge of her passing confirmed. 

Feinstein served three decades as a senator from California, becoming an icon and a trailblazer in the process.

A former mayor of San Francisco, Feinstein is the longest-serving member of the Senate Democratic conference and during her Senate tenure left a mark on a range of issues, including national security and gun control.

Feinstein had been struggling with her health, and had missed some work this week.

“She didn’t feel well this morning,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Thursday, noting Feinstein was unable to attend a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Punchbowl first reported the news of Feinstein’s death.  

Feinstein had taken part in Senate votes on Thursday morning.

Feinstein had to rely on a wheelchair to get around the Senate after she missed nearly three months of work in Washington because of a severe bout with shingles earlier this year.  

She was first elected to the Senate in 1992, which became known as the Senate’s “year of the woman” after Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.), and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) were elected that same year.  

Feinstein’s death leaves a vacancy on the powerful Judiciary Committee and shrinks the Senate Democratic majority to 50 seats.  

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint her temporary replacement.  

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) praised Feinstein as a “legend” in a statement to the Bay Area’s ABC7. 

“She’s a legend. A legend in California as the first woman senator. A legend in the Senate. She was the leader on so many different issues,” he said.  

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the Bay Area outlet that Feinstein was “an icon for women in politics.”  

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), who served with Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee, praised her as a “trailblazer.” 

“She was one of the most effective legislators in recent memory because of her willingness to work across the aisle in good faith in order to solve complex problems,” he said.

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