The Senate’s $1.9 trillion all-nighter
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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:40.0 | Alright. |
| 0:42.0 | Should I do this? |
| 0:45.0 | On this vote, the A's are 50, the A's are 50, the Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, |
| 0:55.0 | and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. |
| 1:06.0 | Lizo Paltex vox, vice president Kamala Harris cast her first tie-breaking vote early this Friday morning in a Senate vote arama. |
| 1:15.0 | Lee, what is a vote arama? |
| 1:18.0 | Beyond being the best name for a Senate procedure. |
| 1:24.0 | It's one of the key steps to getting a budget reconciliation bill passed, which is a way to pass legislation with just 51 votes instead of 60. |
| 1:34.0 | And Democrats may end up using this route to advance COVID-19 relief. |
| 1:39.0 | And we explain the heck out of budget reconciliation with our colleague Dylan Matthews in our episode titled 46, |
| 1:46.0 | which came out on inauguration day. |
| 1:49.0 | But a vote arama we have yet to explain. |
| 1:52.0 | This is something that doesn't happen terribly often, I imagine. |
| 1:55.0 | Right. It's happened just a handful of times in the last decade. |
| 1:58.0 | It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. |
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