At 89, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the longest-tenured female senator in U.S. history, and is currently the oldest sitting member of Congress
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Feinstein’s decision during a closed door lunch of Democratic senators at the Capitol. The senators broke into rounds of applause.
Feinstein was the first woman to serve as president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the 1970s, the first female mayor of San Francisco and the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from California. She was the first woman to head the Senate Intelligence Committee and the first woman to serve as the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat.
During her three decades in the Senate, she was a pragmatic centrist who was known for reaching out to Republicans to find middle ground. But in more recent years her moderation chafed with a state party growing increasingly liberal. “I recognize that women have had to fight for everything they have gotten, every right,” she told The Associated Press in 2005.
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