As vice president, Kamala Harris presided over more tie-breaking votes in the U.S. Senate than anyone in her position. Kamala Harris(born October 20, 1964, Oakland, California, U.S.) is the 49thvice president of the United States(2021– ) in theDemocraticadministration of Pres.Joe Biden....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris, who made history as the first woman, the first Black person and the first person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president, has made history again by matching the record for most tiebreaking votes in the Senat...
Serving as president of the Senate, Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for the most tie-breaking votes cast by a vice president and presided over the historic confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the nation's highest court. ...
In the first 100 days of her administration, Harris, according to a campaign fact sheet, would work to bring down the cost of groceries by working with Congress on a federal ban on price gouging on groceries and other goods and new authorities for the Federal Trade Commission and state att...
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz appearing together at a rally in Pennsylvania on the day... © Kyle Mazza—Anadolu/Getty Images Kamala Harris As vice president, Kamala Harris presided over more tie-breaking votes in the U.S... Courtesy of Kamala Harris for Senate Kamala...
However, what I received was a message lobbying in favor of Kamala Harris (“Vice President Harris cast the tie-breaking vote” and “Vice President Harris and I believe that health care should be a right, not a privilege”). By the way, there’s nothing partisan about my argument. ...
And as vice president, she cast a tie-breaking vote for the most ambitious climate action plan in our nation’s history,’’ the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will fight for a future where we all have clean air, clean water and healthy ...
Harris’s political potential had been somewhat muted by circumstances largely beyond her control. At the start of the administration, the vice-president’s ability to travel widely was curtailed by Covid restrictions, as well as the need to stay in Washington to cast tiebreaking votes on key ...
ABC News live fact-checked Harris and Trump's statements for answers that were exaggerated, needed more context or were false.
In a Senate now split 50/50 between Democrats and Republicans, as Vice President, Harris will cast tie-breaking votes. A split Senate has only happened three times before. This one comes after two Democratic Senate victories in the Georgia run-off elections, just a day before the Ca...