It didn’t take long for the platform previously known as Twitter to explode with posts about the passing of Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein today at age 90.
Senator Feinstein’s chief of staff posted a statement on social media this morning.
From SpectrumNews1:
“Feinstein was the longest-tenured female senator in U.S. history and, prior to her death, was the oldest sitting member of Congress. She was first elected to represent California in 1992 and has since been reelected five times, including in 2012, when she received a record 7.86 million votes, the highest popular vote total in U.S. Senate history.
Throughout her career, she has been a trailblazer for women in politics, becoming the first woman to chair the Senate’s all-important Rules and Intelligence Committees, as well as the first to oversee a presidential inauguration for Barack Obama in 2009. She was also the first woman to serve as the president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the first woman to lead the city as its mayor.”
The news site also lists a few important facts about Senator Feinstein and her decades-long career in the senate (term limits).
- California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a pioneer for women in politics and a stalwart of the U.S. Senate for more than three decades, has died at 90
- Feinstein was the longest-tenured female senator in U.S. history, first elected to represent California in 1992
- Throughout her career, she has been a trailblazer for women in politics and was a staunch gun control advocate, authoring the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban
- Earlier this year she announced she would not seek reelection to the seat she has held since 1992 amid concerns about her health and questions about her fitness to serve
- Feinstein worked in the Senate up until the day before she died, casting a vote on Thursday to advance the Senate’s short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown
Some of the posts:
