What difference would it make.
She didn’t run as a Republican last time and doesn’t have to the next time if she doesn’t want to.
She SHOULD be stripped of ANY committee assignments.
Take that, weeotch.
It’ll make her HAVE to run as a Dem....not as a pretend Repub, who just gets “elected” w/Dem votes.
“Present” is not exactly a “No” vote.
But that is a quibble, and probably unworthy of further comment.
Senator Murkowski probably should not have been elected in 2010, that was a fluke. She had already been “primaried”, and should have not stood a chance, except as a write-in candidate. That long shot on her part put her in the plurality, and that is enough in most venues. Her win in 2016 was also a plurality, because her opponent, Joe Miller, chose to run as a Libertarian and not a Tea Party kind of Republican.