Vice President Kamala Harris earned a small gold colored gavel on Tuesday when she cast her 32nd tiebreaking vote, breaking the previous record held by John C. Calhoun nearly 200 years ago.
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00:00 Are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or change a vote?
00:03 If not on this vote, the yeas are 50 and the nays are 50.
00:08 The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the
00:12 motion is agreed to.
00:15 Madam Vice President.
00:17 Majority Leader.
00:19 Today is historic.
00:21 Vice President Harris has just cast her 32nd tie-breaking vote, the most tie-breakers ever.
00:29 I join all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle thanking the Vice President for
00:35 her leadership and for making the work of the Senate possible.
00:40 The record Vice President Harris sets today is significant, not just because of the number
00:45 but because of what she's made possible with tie-breaking votes.
00:50 Without her tie-breaking votes, there'd be no American Rescue Plan, no Inflation Reduction
00:54 Act, and we would not have confirmed many of the excellent federal judges now presiding
01:00 on the bench.
01:02 Every time duty is called, Vice President Harris has answered more than any other vice
01:08 president in our nation's long and storied history.
01:12 So thank you, Vice President Harris.
01:15 This is a great milestone and yours is even a greater legacy.
01:19 Let us continue working together to make life better for all Americans.
01:25 Thank you, Majority Leader.
01:26 So no one deserves this more than she does.
01:27 It is my honor to present the Golden Gap to Vice President Harris on this great day, 32
01:38 tie-breaking votes.
01:39 Thank you, Majority Leader.
01:40 Thank you, Chuck.
01:41 Thank you.
01:42 I'm honored.
01:43 I am truly honored.
01:44 And of course, today, what it has meant in terms of confirming now our 161st judge to
01:51 the federal bench.
01:52 So I'm truly honored and proud to have been able to do this and I thank you leadership,
01:58 New York leadership, and all your work.
02:01 And it's very appropriate that the Vice President cast all those votes for judges because two-thirds
02:07 have been people of color and two-thirds have been women.
02:10 We have moved the bench forward to look more like America under her many great tie-breaking
02:17 votes.
02:18 Thank you.
02:19 Thank you, Majority Leader.