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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 ...
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 ...
The list of tie-breaking votes cast by Vice Presidents is missing Thomas Jefferson to Millard Fillmore. That’s 11 Vice Presidents, including the previous record-holder, John C. Calhoun. What gives? The Senate records are open to the public. The rest of the list is there. Why would someone leave out over one-fifth of the Vice Presidents?
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 ...
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: