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CLOSE Democrats took control of the Senate when three new members, Georgia’s Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, and California’s Alex Padilla were sworn in. Storyful WASHINGTON – Around 5 a.m. Friday in the nation’s capital, bleary-eyed senators who had spent hours debating a COVID relief bill looked up to see Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over the chamber. …

(AP Photo/Matt Slocum) RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — The Virginia Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would move all elections for local governments to November. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, a Democrat, broke a 19-19 tie vote in the Senate in favor of Senate Bill 1157. The bill now moves to the Virginia House of Delegates, …

WASHINGTON: One of the few duties of the vice-president spelled out in the constitution is breaking ties in the Senate, but Kamala Harris hopes she doesn’t have to do it much. In an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday, the vice president-elect noted that there have been only 268 tie-breaking votes cast by …

OAKLAND — Saying that “Oakland must create a new system of public safety and justice based on real numbers that do not mislead the public,” Mayor Libby Schaaf cast the tie-breaking vote Tuesday night to defeat a budget plan to slash funding from the Oakland Police Department. The rejection of the alternate proposal by Council …