I hate to be that EU guy, but Claudia Gray’s book Bloodline goes into a lot of detail about how corrupt and ineffectual the NR senate is and how Leia’s basically been cast out since the secret about her parentage was revealed. Half the senators secretly back the First Order and that’s why the Resistance had to be established as a rogue watchdog group in the first place. Normally I’d say create your own canon, but Rian Johnson apparently contributed some ideas regarding how the NR senate is portrayed in the book, and it supposedly ties into Episode VIII, so I’d be wary about portraying the NR this way if you want this edit to tie into the next movie.