With today’s Senate evenly split at 50-50, the chances of Harris making that 1.2 mile journey from the White House to the Capitol to serve as the tie-breaker are high.

Kamala Harris was never a creature of the Senate. Its marbled passageways weren’t a destination, but a springboard. Harris saw the office of California governor as a preferable perch and, when ...

Being president of an almost evenly divided U.S. Senate has paid off in at least one way for Vice President Kamala Harris: She has now surpassed predecessor Mike Pence in casting tie-breaking votes.

Tie-breaking votes are rare, with only 268 recorded since the first US Senate of 1789. Harris has already cast more tiebreakers than Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt and Walter Mondale, who each had one.

Vice President Kamala Harris received a golden gavel from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in honor of her 32nd tie-breaking vote in the Senate, a new record.

Vice President Kamala Harris made history Wednesday when she cast her 31st tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate as vice president, matching the record set by John C. Calhoun.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., presents Vice President Kamala Harris with a golden gavel after she cast her 32nd tie-breaking vote in the Senate on Tuesday.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call ...

Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday broke a 50-50 Senate tie to begin debate on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Debate on the bill, which would grant $1,400 ...

The Democratic pickup of a U.S. Senate seat gives Harris a new lease on life. She will have more time in more ways than one. So far, she’s been tied to the Senate as the tie-breaking vote in the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris — with the help of about 100 opinionated colleagues — broke a nearly 200-year-old record in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, casting her 32nd tie-breaker vote in the U ...

WASHINGTON – Around 5 a.m. Friday in the nation's capital, bleary-eyed senators who had spent hours debating a COVID-19 relief bill looked up to see Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over ...