2023-09-29 15:44:48
The dean of the US Senate Dianne Feinstein, a historic figure in the Democratic Party, has died at the age of 90, US media announced on Friday.
The first female mayor of San Francisco before serving as a California senator for more than 30 years, Ms. Feinstein was recognized as a tenacious politician. The senator voted again in Congress Thursday morning. She announced her political retirement in February, indicating that she would not run again in the 2024 elections.
President Joe Biden then praised the qualities of Dianne Feinstein, a “close friend”, particularly mentioning her role as a pioneer for women in politics.
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Dianne Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco for ten years, after the assassination in 1978 of her predecessor George Moscone and of the politician Harvey Milk, a figure of the gay movement, a tragedy during which this woman was able to show her determination.
In the Senate, she notably passed a ban – for ten years – on assault rifles in 1994.
She also supported George W. Bush’s war in Iraq and emerged as an influential member of the Intelligence Committee. His report of several thousand pages demonstrating the CIA’s lies about torture in the context of the “war on terrorism” has gone down in history.
The California senator has played a leading role in the consideration of hundreds of laws during her career.
In recent years, however, the elected official has eroded her political capital due to persistent doubts about her coherence, often expressed by her own camp. Former parliamentary aides described episodes of mental confusion, reported in a New Yorker article at the end of 2020. His memory lapses also came to light at that time during the hearing of the ex-Twitter boss, Jack Dorsey, in front of the Senate: she asked him the same question, word for word, twice in a row. His case was regularly cited during debates on the old age of many elected officials in the United States.
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