Vice President Kamala Harris could kill the filibuster herself
She s president of the Senate under the Constitution. That could be useful. Actual Senate gavel not pictured.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
Feb. 8, 2021, 10:34 AM UTC
It was 5:30 a.m. on Friday and all eyes were on Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Constitution has given Harris, as vice president, a second job a side gig to most modern observers. She s not just President Joe Biden s No. 2; she s also president of the Senate. And it s not a role she should overlook. It may, in fact, be the key to transforming Biden s agenda from notions into laws. In the right hands, in a Senate as closely divided as this one, it s a job that can finally break the chamber s famed deadlock and transform Washington.