Sentences with phrase «tiebreaking vote»

We don't have a tiebreaking vote any longer.

She had been confirmed by the Senate earlier that day by the narrowest possible margin, with Vice President Mike Pence casting a tiebreaking vote - the first time that a vice president's tiebreaker was needed to confirm a Cabinet secretary.

She even lost the support of a few Republicans, so that her confirmation on Feb. 7 was secured only after Vice President Pence, as presiding officer of the Senate, cast the first tiebreaking vote in U.S. history to confirm a Cabinet nominee.

Renegade state Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D - East Elmhurst) has returned to the Democratic caucus, leaving the Senate split 31 - 31 without a lieutenant governor to cast the tiebreaking vote.

But if Republicans fall short of the 50 votes needed to pass a replacement, with Pence casting the tiebreaking vote, Short said lawmakers should just repeal the existing law.

Vice President Mike Pence cast the tiebreaking vote.

(The vice president would cast a tiebreaking vote.)

Not exact matches

But they do work closely with Republicans, providing a cushion when the G.O.P. senators voted to strip the tiebreaking powers of the Democratic lieutenant governor Bob Duffy and to approve the Republican budget.