![]() Harris spent only a few minutes in the chamber, reciting a brief script to record her vote, and then received congratulations from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. The occasion was hardly memorable or particularly ceremonial. “Our politics is so polarized that, even on the sort of matters that in the past would have flown through, it takes the vice president to cast a tiebreaking vote.” Goldstein, a vice presidential historian. “It really says more about our time, and our political climate, than it does about anything else," said Joel K. It's a reflection of her unique circumstances, with a narrowly divided Senate and a sharply partisan atmosphere. Unlike Calhoun, who spent eight years accumulating his total, Harris reached 31 in 2 1/2 years. "I’m going to make sure I’m not the last.” “My mother gave me great advice, which is that I may be the first to do many things," she added. ![]() “It is a moment and I think that there’s still so much left that we have yet to do,” Harris told reporters afterward. Calhoun, vice president from 1825 to 1832. The only other vice president to cast so many was John C. Her 31st such vote, on Wednesday, advanced the nomination of Kalpana Kotagal to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ![]() WASHINGTON – Kamala Harris, who made history as the first woman, the first Black person and the first person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president, has made history again by matching the record for most tiebreaking votes in the Senate. ![]()
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