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John C. Calhoun was the only vice president to cast tie-breaking votes against his own president, Andrew Jackson. In 1832, Calhoun cast a tie-breaking vote to delay and later defeat the 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 just ...
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 ...
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 ...
In some legislatures, a casting vote may be exercised however the presiding officer wishes.For example, the vice president of the United States may exercise their casting vote when the Senate is evenly divided according to their own personal beliefs; by virtue of the vice president's political leanings and affiliations, the vice president's political party is able to serve as the majority ...
List of tie-breaking votes cast by the vice president of the United States; This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:
The only other vice president to cast so many was John C. Calhoun, who served as vice president from 1825 to 1832. Vice President Kamala Harris makes history with tiebreaking votes in Senate Skip ...
Prior to the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804, each member of the Electoral College cast two votes for president; whichever individual who won the most electoral votes would become president, while the individual with the second-most electoral votes would become vice president. In the elections of 1792, 1796, and 1800, at least one ...