In her position as president of the Senate, Harris set a record in December 2023 by casting her 32nd and 33rd tiebreaking votes—breaking John C. Calhoun’s mark that stood for almost 200 years. Since 2023, Harris has led the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. She has also...
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 Senate. Her 31st such vote,...
See a county-by-county breakdown of how California voted for president. Vice President Kamala Harris has won the state's 54 electoral votes, CBS News projects. Nov 5, 2024 Kamala Harris wins her home state of California, CBS News projects ...
For her first two years, Harris also was often tethered to Washington so she could break tie votes in the evenly divided Senate, which gave Democrats landmark wins on the climate and health care but also constrained opportunities for her to travel around the cou...
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 ...
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Lujan Grisham said on the convention floor Tuesday evening that Harris took on drug companies that “jacked up prices” and hospitals that “overcharged patients,” voted “hell no” on repealing the Affordable Care Act and cast the tie-breaking vote on legislation that capped insuli...
The efforts to tie downballot Democrats, who have polled significantly ahead of Biden in some states, to the presidential ticket, fit familiar patterns. Dave McCormick, who is challenging Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, slammed what he called the “Biden-Harris-Casey” border policy. He and...