Addressing the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting Sept. 10, 2022, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted about how, as president of the Senate, she had broken “John Adams’s record of casting the most tiebreaking votes in a single term.”
Harris was reliving how, a month earlier on Aug. 7, she had broken a tie vote in support of the $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act, a boondoggle spending bill—which actually had the opposite effect, further fueling runaway inflation.
Harris also cast the tiebreaker for an even more expensive boondoggle, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, on Feb. 5, 2021—a scant two weeks after taking office.
Harris went on to exult: “I cannot wait to cast the deciding vote to break the filibuster on voting rights and reproductive rights. I cannot wait!”
Two years and two weeks…
