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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...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: This story is important to understand how Legislation is now going to proceed through the United States Senate, given the rare occurrence of a 50/50 tie between Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Floor. The Biden Administration has been delayed in the U.S. Senate as the Senate has struggled for the last almost four weeks to establish “Organizing Rules”. The Senate installs these Rules via a Senate Resolution at the start of each new Congress (the two-year 117th Congress began January 4, 2021). On Wednesday, though, negotiat...

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...

ANC’s interference in Premier Job Mokgoro’s work is unconstitutional – DA By Baldwin Ndaba Share Johannesburg – The DA in North West has labelled the provincial ANC’s decision to monitor and regulate the activities of Premier Job Mokgoro following the suspension of his ANC’s membership as “unconstitutional”. On Sunday, the ANC suspended Premier Mokgoro’s party membership, claiming that he and four other ANC members colluded with the ANC to elect fellow ANC member Priscilla Williams as chair of chairs in the North West Provincial Legislature. The AN...

───   16:47 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 Job Mokgoro. File image The DA in North West has labelled the provincial ANC’s decision to monitor and regulate the activities of Premier Job Mokgoro following the suspension of his ANC membership as “unconstitutional”. On Sunday, the ANC suspended Premier Mokgoro’s party membership, claiming that he and four other ANC members colluded with the ANC to elect fellow ANC member Priscilla Williams as chair of chairs in the North West Provincial Legislature. The ANC wanted Lenah Miga for the position. According...