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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 ...
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 ...
U.S. Vice Presidents have cast 64 tiebreaking votes in the last 42 years. Half of them have been cast by Kamala Harris.
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 ...
She cast 13 tie-breaking votes during her first year in office, the most tie-breaking votes in a single year in U.S. history, surpassing John Adams, who cast 12 in 1790. [ 196 ] [ 197 ] On December 5, 2023, Harris broke the record for the most tie-breaking votes cast by a vice president, casting her 32nd vote, exceeding John C. Calhoun , who ...
In this capacity, the vice president is empowered to preside over the United States Senate, but may not vote except to cast a tie-breaking vote. [10] The vice president is indirectly elected at the same time as the president to a four-year term of office by the people of the United States through the Electoral College, but the electoral votes ...
Vice President Kamala Harris made history Tuesday by casting her 32nd tie-breaking vote, setting a new record for number of votes cast by a vice president.
Prior to the election of 1824, most states did not have a popular vote. In the election of 1824, only 18 of the 24 states held a popular vote, but by the election of 1828, 22 of the 24 states held a popular vote. Minor candidates are excluded if they received fewer than 100,000 votes or less than 0.1% of the vote in their election year.