Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Pennsylvania
Federal Government
What happens if when voting on a bill, the Senate or the House of Representatives splits their vote 50/50? For example, if every member of the Senate was present (100) and 50 memebers voted for the bill and 50 memebers voted against it.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Federal Government
Then the vice president gets to vote to break the tie. That could even happen if say 80 members were present and the vote was 40-40.
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Re: Federal Government
The Vice President, in his capacity as President of the Senate, casts the tie-breaking vote when the Senate is deadlocked. He does not get to vote unless the senators are tied.
A tie in the House means that the bill does not pass. Passage requires a majority vote in favor of the bill, and there is no majority where the vote is evenly split.
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