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  Share Source: AP Photo/Al Goldis, File The Senate confirmed President Biden’s 10th cabinet member on Thursday afternoon, as a few nominees face bipartisan pushback. Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) was confirmed by the Senate to serve as Biden’s Secretary of Energy.  While she received bipartisan support, Granholm’s vote was closer than other nominees brought forth by the president. The Senate confirmed her by a vote of 64-35.  64-35: Senate confirms former Michigan Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm to be Energy Secretary for President Biden. pic.twitter.com/6lyy...

Highlights Given the U.S. Senate's 50-50 split, a power-sharing agreement is necessary to determine how Senate committees and floor procedure will operate for the 117th Congress. The agreement was adopted by unanimous consent on Feb. 3, 2021. The agreement is largely based on the Senate's power-sharing agreement that was forged two decades ago for the 107th Congress, and governs certain aspects of committee makeup, discharge procedures and procedures on the Senate floor. This Holland & Knight alert reviews the contexts of the agreement and what it could mean for clients and the legislative ou...

Organizing the Senate The Senate ended weeks of uncertainty yesterday when it approved an organizing resolution for the 117th Congress. The breakthrough came after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced that they had reached an agreement [1] on how to share power in the evenly divided Senate. While Schumer replaced McConnell as Senate majority leader last month thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote, his fellow Democrats had not yet assumed control of the Senate’s committees or officially appointed its principal...

  Share Source: AP Photo/John Locher The Senate voted to confirm another one of President Biden’s cabinet nominees, the fifth one thus far. By a vote of 56-43 Alejandro Mayorkas was approved by the upper chamber to serve as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  Confirmed, 56-43: Executive Calendar #4, Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of Homeland Security @DHSgov— Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) February 2, 2021 While serving under former President Obama in DHS, Mayorkas was found to have given “favoritism and special acc...

The Senate confirmed another of President Biden’s cabinet nominations on Monday afternoon, the third thus far. With bipartisan support for her confirmation, Janet Yellen will serve as Treasury Secretary in