Pence becomes first VP to break Senate tie over Cabinet nomination

Vice President Pence has done something that his predecessor, Joe Biden, did not do even once in his eight years in the same office.
He cast a tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate.
The occasion is Tuesday’s confirmation of Betsy DeVos as President Trump’s secretary of education. The DeVos nomination has so far proven the most contentious of all Trump’s controversial Cabinet picks.
Two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, joined all 46 Democr