How does Murkowski vote on these issues when she doesn’t join the Senate till January?
Huh? Have you ever read the Constitution? Even as far as Art. I, Sec. 3? Murky remained a Senator throughout the entire 111th Congress.
Miller might have made it to the 112th Congress, if he had not been so smug and lazy. Now the MurCow will be in place on Jan 5th in the 112th until 2016. Miller worked overtime to lose, and he succeeded.
She is the incumbent and her term is not interrupted. She would be voting now, even if Miller had won the election.