Sen. Dianne Feinstein Responds After Colleagues' Accounts That Her Memory Is Deteriorating
CREDIT: KEVIN DIETSCH-POOL/GETTY Colleagues of Dianne Feinstein are speaking out — some on the record and others anonymously — about the California Democrat's future in the Senate at the same time that she is responding to their concerns about her fitness for office. In a recent policy meeting, a fellow lawmaker told The San Francisco Chronicle in a story published Thursday, Feinstein repeated herself and appeared to forget topics already discussed. At 88, she is the oldest senator, a few months ahead of Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley . "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," the lawmaker, who according to the Chronicle asked not to be named because of the sensitive nature of the matter, said in an intervi...