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After Chester Arthur succeeded to the presidency, leaving the Senate evenly divided and without a tiebreaking vote, Republicans retained committee chairmanships, Democrats controlled Senate-wide staffing, and Independent Democrat David Davis held the position of president pro tempore.
- The First Hurdle Is The Organizing Resolution
- The Prospect of Ditching The Filibuster
- If The Filibuster Stays, What Can Democrats do?
- Who Controls The Senate For Now?
Incoming Democratic Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and outgoing Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have to agree on a set of rules, known as an organizing resolution, which governs how the Senate works. The organizing resolution determines everything from committee membership and staff budgets, to who gets the best office space. Ev...
In theory, Senate Democrats could change the cloture rule—and, with it, the need for 60 votes. They could, in other words, kill the filibuster. There are two ways that Democrats could do that. The first is by holding a vote to change the Senate’s standing rules. The only problem is that a vote to change the rules requires a two-thirds majority. So,...
Because so much legislative action can be thwarted by a filibuster—or simply by losing the support of one or two moderate Democrats—the party’s slim majority will likely limit its ability to pass ambitious legislation. “It gives sort of a fighting chance to make a down payment on some of those agenda items,” Binder says. “But it’s not sufficient in...
Republicans have the majority until Inauguration Day. Georgia counties have until Jan. 15 to officially certify the results of Warnock’s and Ossoff’s elections, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has until Jan. 22 to make the victories official. (Though the process could progress more quickly). Once Warnock and Ossoff have an officia...
Jan 12, 2021 · The electoral victories of Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia last week will result in a 50-50 split between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate—a rare event; it’s only...
- Abigail Abrams
Sep 17, 2020 · It’s an outcome that practically no one wants, but it’s starting to look like a real possibility: a 50-50 Senate. An evenly split Senate would make life grueling for whoever is president next...
Jan 7, 2021 · Ties on votes can happen even when the Senate isn’t evenly split on party lines. (Note that two independents, Maine’s Angus King and Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, caucus with the 48...
Jan 28, 2021 · Democrats now have a thin majority control in Congress, but passing sweeping legislation still won’t be easy. A rule requiring votes from 60 of the Senate’s 100 members in order to advance ...
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Jan 19, 2021 · Their arrival in the Senate splits the partisan makeup in the chamber equally between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, a divide that has occurred only three times before in the nation’s history.
