schumer says sinema maintains her committees. if she did not caucus with either party, sinema would lack committee assignments. on capitol, you must be in the room where it happens. right, you can have a room, you are the only person in it. they would prefer she call herself a democrat for party unity, but change the party label, so long as she caucuses with the party, they get to take advantage of her vote within that caucus. the republicans say democrats veered far to the left leaving a moderate like sinema behind. gop members are already courting sinema. she put her foot down earlier this year and said she would not do it and i think you have seen examples of punishment and retaliation from the democrats at her. but sinema s vote was important to pass the inflation reduction act, the gun bill, and the infrastructure bill. this is not like 2001 when jim