Vice President Harris breaks nearly 200-year-old record for ‘tiebreaker’ voting in the Senate
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Harris equaled Calhoun’s record in July. Casting the tiebreaker vote is one of the only constitutional duties the vice president has, and Harris has been repeatedly called on to break the deadlock because there is so little difference in votes between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.
US Vice President Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for the most votes in the US Senate by voting in a tie-break on Tuesday in a vote to confirm the appointment of a new federal judge in Washington.
Chuck Schumer, a Democratic senator from New York and majority leader in the upper house, called Harris’s 32nd tiebreaking vote a ‘milestone’. Previously, the record for the most number of votes cast by a Vice President when there was a ‘tiebreak’ in the Senate was held by John C. Calhoun, who cast ‘tiebreaking’ votes 31 times during his eight-year tenure as Vice President from 1825 to 1832.
Harris equaled Calhoun’s record in July. Casting the tiebreaker vote is one of the only constitutional duties the vice president has, and Harris has been repeatedly called on to break the deadlock because there is so little difference in votes between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.
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