Newsom can replace her fairly quickly, so it won't have major impact on critical Senate votes. But, her death leaves her committee seats open. Filling those s

Newsom can replace her fairly quickly, so it won't have major impact on critical Senate votes. But, her death leaves her committee seats open. Filling those seats will take time and where she was in a leadership position, that needs resolved. Committees often have a 1-vote edge to the majority party, so those committees may be effectively deadlocked until replacements are nominated/approved (this is almost exclusively a Senate task - so can the Democratic leadership in the Senate get new members into committees in a timely manner). Edit - typos