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Senator Kyrsten Sinema speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., February 1, 2022.
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Arizona Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema’s announcement that she’s leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent sent shockwaves through Washington on Friday.
But it doesn’t appear that Sinema’s move will have much of an impact on the operations of the Senate. She has said she will not caucus with the Republicans and has not yet said whether she will continue to formally caucus with Democrats (as “independent” senators Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont do).
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John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.
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Arizona Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema’s announcement that she’s leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent sent shockwaves through Washington on Friday.
But it doesn’t appear that Sinema’s move will have much of an impact on the operations of the Senate. She has said she will not caucus with the Republicans and has not yet said whether she will continue to formally caucus with Democrats (as “independent” senators Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont do).
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About the Author
John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.
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