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Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking votes on COVID foreshadows Senate role
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. …
Fairfax casts tie-breaking vote in Virginia Senate, bill to move all local elections to Nov. goes forward
(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, …
Kamala Harris says she hopes to avoid tie-breaking votes
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 …
Mayor Schaaf casts tie-breaking vote to reject OPD cuts
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 …