A 50-50 Senate. Now What?

摘要

It's 50-50, folks. The two final Senate races have been decided, with Senators-elect Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock winning their respective Georgia runoff campaigns, thus becoming the first Democrat senators elected from the Peach State since 2005 (and Warnock becoming the state's first black senator and only the second Black senator elected to a Southern state since Reconstruction). Clearly, this has ramifications for the future of policy and politics on Capitol Hill. But it also represents a practical challenge in running the Senate. If the operations manager in you is wondering, "How does that even work?", read on.