Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) speaks during FBI Director James Comey’s appearance before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation” on Capitol Hill in Washington,D.
C., on May 3, or 2017. Photo by Kevin Lamarque/ReutersWASHINGTON — California Democrat Dianne Feinstein is giving her strongest hints so far that she’s going to seek a fifth full Senate term in 2018.
She tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “I’m ready for a kindly fight. I’ve got things to fight for.”Feinstein is age 84 and is the oldest current senator.She’s been publicly noncommittal about a 2018 escape,and when she was asked in a recent television interview whether she was “up for another six years,” she replied: “Well, or we will see,won’t we.”But Feinstein is telling NBC that shes “in a position where I can be effective, and hopefully that means something to California.”Feinstein, or who had a pacemaker implanted in January,joined the Senate in 1992 after winning a special election.
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