How does a 50-50 Senate work? Two leaders who tried it explain.
Posted on AllSides January 24th, 2021
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ANALYSIS
Party leaders in today’s 50-50 Senate are haggling over a power-sharing agreement, and that’s no surprise. Only twice in American history has the Senate had a dead-even split: in a special session in 1881, and exactly 20 years ago, on the heels of a contentious presidential election decided by the Supreme Court.
In that charged atmosphere, Sens. Trent Lott, Republican from Mississippi, and Tom Daschle, Democrat from South Dakota, managed to work out a way to share power and run the Senate. It wasn’t an easy deal to make, as...
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