Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeating his Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia to win reelection to the U.S. Senate creates a new reality on Capitol Hill.
For the past two years, there was basically a power sharing agreement between the Democrats and Republicans. There was a 50-50 split and Vice President Kamala Harris had the tie-breaking vote.
“There’s a big difference between a 50-50 Senate and a 51-49 Senate,” said Rick Mullaney, News4JAX political analyst and director of the Jacksonville University Public Policy Institute. “No. 1 is those committee assignments under a 50-50 Senate. It’s the same number of Republicans and Democrats on those committees. Now you have Democrats in the majority. That’s significant for investigations, in particular in which they can issue subpoenas.
“Over the last two years, each of the 50 senators has had basically a veto authority over his legislative agenda,” said Mullaney. “And the one who has exercised that veto authority the most has been Joe Manchin. That was true and there were threats of abolishing the filibuster that was true with the American Rescue Plan. For President Biden Joe Manchin has been very challenging. And so is Krysten Sinema who got some changes to the Inflation Reduction Act. That is not the case anymore.
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