Democrats hoped Feinstein would return next week. She’s made no promises

Sen. Dianne Feinstein arrives at the Senate chamber inside the U.S. Capitol for a vote in February. That accounting, he said, must involve a “full medical briefing on her condition and on its prognosis; the best and honest judgment whether she’ll be able to return, and if so, when; and for how long she’ll be able to work everyday.” “Frankly, it is inexplicable to me that a long-standing public servant and leader like Sen. Feinstein would compromise the public interest in this way” by withholding that critical information, Eisen said. “I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Feinstein’s fellow San Francisco Democrat, told reporters last week. Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, a Senate contender, “believes that Sen. Feinstein’s health should be everyone’s primary concern and that she and her family deserve privacy,” said her campaign spokeswoman, Katie Merrill. A spokesperson for Rep. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank, another Senate candidate, said his staff “has been in touch with the senator’s staff, but we don’t have anything to share about those conversations at this time — it is up to the senator or her staff to share relevant information with constituents.” Campaign officials for Rep. Katie Porter of Irvine, another Democrat vying for the Senate seat, did not respond to questions about transparency; neither did a spokesman for Gov.