Mildly Interesting

17559 readers

7 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

263

Kamala Harris has cast more tie-breaking votes in the Senate than any VP in history (33) (ballotpedia.org)

submitted 4 months ago by ccunning to c/mildlyinteresting

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

While her two closest competitors John C. Calhoun (31) and John Adam’s (29) aren’t far off, it took them both two terms to reach those numbers.

The most any fellow one term VP had was 19, achieved by George M. Dallas (1845-1849).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Probably because the Senate GOP blocked a lot of potential legislation from even coming to a vote, and the GOP in the House spent an indecent amount of time squabbling over who was to be Speaker.