Sen. Dianne Feinstein had a pacemaker installed Tuesday, just hours after questioning President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general nominee. Feinstein, 83, is the oldest member of the Senate and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held its first day of confirmation hearings on Trump's nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), on Tuesday. Feinstein's spokesman, Tom Mentzer, said the senator will watch Wednesday's hearing from home and plans to submit additional questions afterward. The California Democrat made the decision to have the pacemaker installed out of an abundance of caution, the statement says. Mentzer wouldn't provide additional reasons for the procedure or details on the condition it was intended to fix.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 11, 2017 16:08 UTC