vice president has the tie breaking vote in senate.
vice president has the tie breaking vote in senate.
who has the tie breaking vote in senate?
vice president
in recent years, the increased threat of a filibuster has led to a rise in the use of cloture to end debate in the senate, especially on high-profile issues where the senate is sharply divided, thus rendering the vice president's tie-breaking vote increasingly unnecessary or unhelpful, since the invocation of cloture requires a three-fifths majority, rather than a simple one. however, the cloture requirement was reduced to a simple majority for all executive and judicial nominations in 2013 (except for supreme court nominations, which were included in 2017), which led to the first ever use of a tie-breaking vote to confirm a cabinet member when pence broke a tie to confirm betsy devos in 2017. in 2018, pence broke a tie to confirm jonathan a. kobes for the u.s. court of appeals for the eighth circuit. this was the first ever tie-breaking vote to confirm a judicial nominee in u.s. history.
list of tie-breaking votes cast by vice presidents of the united states
on february 7, 2017, pence, in his dual constitutional role as president of the united states senate made the first ever tie-breaking vote to confirm a cabinet member. he cast the deciding vote to break a 50–50 tie to confirm betsy devos as the secretary of education. pence cast his second tie-breaking vote on march 30, voting to advance a bill to defund planned parenthood. in 2018, pence broke a tie to confirm jonathan a. kobes for the u.s. court of appeals for the eighth circuit. this was the first ever tie-breaking vote to confirm a judicial nominee in u.s. history. , pence has cast 13 tie-breaking votes, seventh-most in history and more than his previous four predecessors (joe biden, dick cheney, al gore and dan quayle) cast combined (cheney broke eight ties, gore broke four ties, and quayle and biden did not cast a tie-breaking vote).
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