All right, guys, some big breaking news this morning, a big Washington bomb shell, Senator

Kirsten Sinema.

Formerly Democrat of Arizona has decided that she is going to register as a political

independent.

So of course, this is thrown everybody into a giant tizzy trying to figure out what her

plan is, what this means for Washington.

And it's particularly noteworthy because Democrats just won an outright majority in the

Senate with the victory in Georgia.

So a bunch of questions still remain.

Obviously, when she was a Democrat, it was 5149.

So the question is, will she caucus with the Democrats the way that say Bernie Sanders

does?

What I've seen reported so far, so far, is that she is not planning on going to the caucus

meetings, but she still wants to maintain her committee positions.

So that would sort of indicate she wants to still caucus with the Democrats, which would

still give them that majority edge.

That matters for things like judicial nominations and significantly subpoena power, which is

something that they've been floating that they might use to call corporate CEOs on the

carpet and things like that in this session.

Right.

So as I understand it, that kind of fits with the way Angus King operates in the Senate,

technically independent, but does caucus with the Democrats.

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