Although his party kept control of Congress’s upper chamber in 2022, President Joe Biden is once again stuck sending Kamala Harris to cast tiebreaking Senate votes. The vice president is keen to get out of town and on the de facto campaign trail for her boss, but the president’s agenda is currently imperiled by two senators who, dealing with chronic health issues, cannot show up for work.
The absence of Dianne Feinstein, who says she’s currently dealing with shingles, has finally sparked calls from House Democrats for the almost 90-year-old Californian to resign. But the party has remained mum on John Fetterman, who has missed 86% of all roll-call votes thus far while institutionalized for depression after suffering a perilous stroke last year and at all times concealing the full truth about his medical condition.
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