It’s 50-50, folks. The two final Senate races of Election 2020 have been decided. Senators-elect Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won their respective Georgia run-off campaigns, thus becoming the first Democrat senators elected from the Peach State since 2005 (and Warnock becoming the state’s first black senator and only the second black senator elected to a Southern state since Reconstruction). Clearly, this has ramifications for future policy and politics on Capitol Hill. But it also represents a practical challenge in running the Senate. If the operations manager in you is wondering, “How does a 50/50 Senate even work?”, read on.
While rare, an evenly split Senate has occurred a handful of times in history, most recently in 2001 when President George W. Bush was sworn into his first term. It was a partisan mirror image back then, with Republican Vice President Dick Cheney as the ceremonial president of the Senate and, therefore, the tie-breaker. While the US Constitution ma
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