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John C. Calhoun was the only vice president to cast tie-breaking votes against his own president. In 1832, Calhoun cast a tie-breaking vote to delay and later defeat President Andrew Jackson’s nomination of Martin Van Buren as United States Minister to the United Kingdom. Calhoun's supporters in the Senate allowed him to defy Jackson, where ...
U.S. Vice Presidents have cast 64 tiebreaking votes in the last 42 years. Half of them have been cast by Kamala Harris.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday broke the record by casting the most tie-breaking votes in the Senate in U.S. history. She has now broken 32 ties, beating the previous ...
List of tie-breaking votes cast by the vice president of the United States; List of vice presidents of the United States by time in office ... Template:Lists of US ...
The vice president also serves as the president of the Senate and may choose to cast a tie-breaking vote on decisions made by the Senate. Vice presidents have exercised this latter power to varying extents over the years. [2] Two vice presidents—George Clinton and John C. Calhoun—served under more than one president. The incumbent vice ...
Kamala Harris, who made history as the first woman or person of color to serve as vice president, made history again Wednesday as she matched the record for most tiebreaking votes in the U.S. Senate.
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Vice President Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for casting the most tiebreaking votes in the Senate when she voted Tuesday to advance the confirmation of a new federal judge in ...