to talk about the impacts of the race and how it affects the senate, michael snell is with the hill.uest: thank you for having me. host: it doesn't determine power but what are leaders in the senate watching for today? guest: it's significant as to how you legislate in the senate. if warnock wins the first full term today, democrats get a 51 to 49 full seat majority. those committees will no longer be split thinly between democrats and republicans. they will have a majority meaning the senate no longer has to use the power-sharing agreement that schumer and mcconnell had agreed to last year. that would be significant because it root -- could really speed up the committee process when it comes to judicial nominees on the senate judiciary committee. it would then be the majority that democrats could easily vote judicial nominees out from committee for a full vote. also democrats winning an extra seat and giving them that one seat geordie would mean that no one senator could derail negotiations. when i say that, we think of people like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema who have sometimes n

to talk about the impe race and how it affects the senate, michael snell is with the hill. guest: thank you for having me. host: it doesn't determine power but what are leaders in the senate watching for today? guest: it's significant as to how you legislate in the senate. if warnock wins the first full term today, democrats get a 51 to 49 full seat majority. those committees will no longer be split thinly between democrats and republicans. they will have a majority meaning the senate no longer has to use the power-sharing agreement that schumer and mcconnell had agreed to last year. that would be significant because it root -- could really speed up the committee process when it comes to judicial nominees on the senate judiciary committee. it would then be the majority that democrats could easily vote judicial nominees out from committee for a full vote. also democrats winning an extra seat and giving them that one seat geordie would mean that no one senator could derail negotiations. when i say that, we think of people like joe manchin and kyrsten sinema who have sometimes