california Sen. Dianne Feinstein pushed back on claims that she was no longer mentally fit to serve as a United State Senator on Thursday.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
"The last year has been extremely painful and distracting for me, flying back and forth to visit my dying husband who passed just a few weeks ago. But there’s no question I’m still serving and delivering for the people of California, and I’ll put my record up against anyone’s," she said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"The real question is whether I’m still an effective representative for 40 million Californians, and the record shows that I am."in 1992. The 88-year-old Democrat has not indicated whether she plans to run for re-election. Citing four anonymous U.S. senators, a House Democrat, and three former employees of Feinstein’s office, The Chronicle reported on Thursday their concerns about the senator's ability to continue to perform her job adequately.
"I have worked with her for a long time and long enough to know what she was like just a few years ago: always in command, always in charge, on top of the details, basically couldn’t resist a conversation where she was driving some bill or some idea. All of that is gone," one anonymous lawmaker told the Chronicle.
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