Kyrsten Sinema narrowly avoids progressive censure

It’s true that Sinema has voted in line with President Trump’s position a little more than half the time over the last two Congresses, the first of which she spent in the House representing Arizona’s ninth congressional district. But according to FiveThirtyEight, her propensity to support the president’s preferred policies has drastically declined since she moved to the upper chamber. Thus far this Congress, Sinema has voted with Trump just 19 percent of the time, after having done so more than 62 percent of the time as a member of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition in the House.

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The anti-Sinema resolution that the Arizona progressive caucus floated took particular issue with her votes in favor of two Trump nominees: William Barr to serve as attorney general and David Bernhardt to serve as secretary of the interior. It also castigated Sinema for being the sole Democratic senator not to sponsor the Save the Internet Act, which would’ve reinstated net-neutrality rules rolled back by the Federal Communications Commission.

Luckily for Sinema, she has managed to avoid any formal censure, at least for now. At a meeting of the state Democratic party over the weekend, the party’s Resolutions Committee voted unanimously to table the progressive caucus’s resolution, though the caucus has left open the possibility of mounting another push for it early next year.

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