Tributes pour in for Feinstein following 90-year-old senator’s death: ‘Political giant’

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) colleagues honored her career as a female pioneer in politics upon the news of her death on Friday.
The declining health of the 90-year-old senator, whose weekslong absence from the Senate earlier this year led to calls for her to resign, has been the focus of a narrowly divided chamber this term.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN DEAD AT 90: FIVE-TERM SENATOR AND OLDEST MEMBER OF CONGRESS DIES
But her colleagues and allies, from Washington to California and beyond, remembered her contribution to the institution across her five terms as a senator from the Golden State.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had pledged to appoint a black women in Feinstein’s place should her seat become vacant, hailed her as a “political giant” who stood as a role model for women. But he also highlighted her character and unyielding “belief in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation.”
“There is simply nobody who possessed the poise, gravitas, and fierceness of Dianne Feinstein,” he said in a statement.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is expected to deliver remarks on her death as the Senate comes into session Friday morning, called it a “very, very sad day for all of us” …