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.
No. No she doesn’t. She by definition can’t be working from home, as her job is to vote on policies, and she’s missed many many votes because she can’t do them from home. She is by definition, not working from home.
Also, I’ve never understood why we don’t have vice-senators. Either they should have a second that they run with or they should be able to appoint someone else to do their job temporarily.
In fact, if a vote ever proceeds without you or your appointee present, you should be in prison-time level trouble, because by not voting on those policies you’ve disenfranchised millions of people. Voting on every piece of legislation should be a legal requirement with prison time on the line.
You're assuming the goal is to have a functional government that enfranchises people.
:yea:
In many other countries, at least those with party lists, substitutes are elected together with actual members of parliament. If a party wins five seats, the first five people on the list gets elected while the next five people become their substitutes. If an MP resigns, gets incapacitated or take a leave the seat will go to the substitute automatically.
The US really took all the bad parts of having political parties and none of the good
MFers thought of Rome and went, 'I can fix her'