She got shingles in late February.
Feinstein was hospitalized in early March for treatment and returned to her San Francisco home on March 7. She has not been in Washington, D.C., since the onset of the illness. She has missed 60 votes of the 82 taken in 2023 so far, including two prior to her illness. Feinstein “continues to work from home in San Francisco as she recuperates,” her spokesperson Adam Russell told The Chronicle Monday. He did not have any information about when she plans to return to D.C.
The Senate has been on a recess since March 31 and will return on April 17.
The article contradicts itself and it also said she's missed 58 Senate votes since late February.
Either give Senators the ability to vote from their state home office or give states the ability to assign Senatorial duties while an invalid senator recuperates.
But drop this "my job is to do literally anything other than vote for shit" line, as though all that other stuff isn't just kicked off to her staff.
I work at dominos, my job is to make pizzas to give to customers. However, I’ve been working from home this year and haven’t been able to make a single pizza.
Pizza constituent services when I have my little bother answer the phone and tell people I can't make pizza right now.
Yeah the real story here IMO is that, in the year of our lord 2023, Congress still works predominantly in-person (excepting the proxy voting that was in place due to the pandemic until recently). How long has the telegraph existed, again?