Harris Passes Pence In Tie-Breaking Senate Votes After Less Than One Year In Office

Vice President Kamala Harris cast two tie-breaking votes in the Senate on Wednesday, reaching a total of 15 votes in less than a year and surpassing former Vice President Mike Pence’s total from his four years in office.

The vice president serves as the president of the Senate and may vote in cases in which a decision is tied. The current 50-50 split — 48 Democrats and two Independents who caucus with the party versus 50 Republicans — in the deeply divided Senate has already offered Harris several opportunities to exercise her vote.

Wednesday’s tie-breaking votes included breaking a tie to support Rachael Rollins as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts in a cloture vote. Her second vote on the same day later confirmed Rollins to her new role.

VP Harris just broke her 14th & 15th 50-50 ties in the Senate, which is more than the 13 ties VP Pence broke during his four years in office.

“Every time I vote, we win,” Harris told NBC News today with a laugh.

She’s on pace to break the record: https://t.co/K3t2kdvDBQ

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) December 8, 2021

The Hill reported that the vice president’s 15th tie-breaking vote ranks her fifth in the nation’s history. John C. Calhoun remains the current leader with 31 tie-breaking votes in the Senate. Calhoun served as vice president under two presidents before the Civil War.

“Harris has cast more tie votes than any other vice president in modern history,” the report added.

Calhoun’s record may not last much longer with Harris in power. The vice president is already on track to break more than 50 ties at her current pace by the end of President Joe Biden’s first term.

The other vice presidents to break more ties include John Quincy Adams, George Dallas, and Schuyler Colfax, according to The Hill.

Harris’ support of Rollins was considered controversial over the attorney’s failure to prosecute a wide number of crimes.

“[Rollins] is part of web of left wing district attorneys who protect criminals,” Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted on Wednesday.

Cruz also blasted Rollin’s nomination in a Senate floor speech on Wednesday:

“I rise today to strongly oppose the confirmation of Rachel Rollins to be a U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts. Many Americans have probably never heard of Rachael Rollins, but they’re becoming very familiar with the kind of lawlessness and dangerous crime that radical left-wing district attorneys like her have generated under their watch. We’ve seen looting and larceny, and violent crime rates rise in cities all over the country the past couple of years. Ms. Rollins is part of a web of left-wing district attorneys across the country who see it as their job not to prosecute crime, [but] rather, to protect criminals.”

“What’s happened with these prosecutors who refuse to prosecute crime? Well, all too predictably, crime rates have skyrocketed. Last year, the murder rate went up nearly 30 percent overall, and it went up 40 percent in cities with populations between 100,000 and 250,000. We’ve seen horrific crimes and tragedies that could have been prevented if these DAs had simply done their jobs. Take John Chisholm, the DA in Milwaukee, who released Darrell Brooks, a repeat and dangerous criminal on $1,000 bail. What was the crime he was charged with? Using his vehicle, a red SUV to run down a woman, the mother of his child, released on $1,000 bail. What happened? Brooks, as we all know, drove that same red SUV through a Christmas parade [and] murdered six people including an eight year old boy. That man should not have been on the street should not have been behind the wheel. The DA knew he was a violent criminal who use that SUV as an instrument of violence. And for $1,000 the left-wing DA let him go. Had Brooks not been out on such a low bail, this horrific tragedy wouldn’t have occurred. That eight year old boy would still be alive.

 “Our communities don’t need prosecutors who endanger the very communities they’re supposed to serve by refusing to prosecute or detain criminals. They don’t need left-wing prosecutors who let violent criminals walk the streets. The damage that these so-called prosecutors can do has thankfully been somewhat limited by the fact that when they choose not to prosecute criminals, the federal government has the ability in many instances to step in and charge criminals federally. But Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are working to change that by elevating one of these radical leftists soft on crime district attorneys, Rachael Rollins, to be the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, the chief federal prosecutor in the entire state of Massachusetts. Let’s talk a little bit more about what exactly Rachael Rollins believes prosecutors should do and what her record is.”

Rachael Rollins—Biden nominee to be US Attorney in Massachusetts—is part of web of left wing district attorneys who protect

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