Leaders in the House and the Senate paused from the race to avert a government shutdown to remember Feinstein, the California Democrat who was longest-serving woman to ever sit in the U.S. Senate.
In the House, House Rules Committee Chair Tom Cole , R-Okla., interrupted a meeting on stopgap funding bill to announce the reports of her death.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, recalled working with Feinstein on water legislation in the midst of the state's record-breaking drought in the mid-2010s."I remember the hours, the nights that we would have to work to try to work through the challenges. We come from different parties, we have different philosophies — but we put our state first," he said, speaking to reporters at the Capitol.
15 years, paid tribute to his former colleague in remarks at an event at Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va. Flags over the U.S. Capitol were lowered to half-staff, as were flags at city buildings in Los Angeles in Feinstein's home state of California.
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