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With such close margins, a tie vote is possible \u2014 here&#8217;s a look back at what happens when the House ties.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>An unusual scene occurred on the House floor in February 2024 as the chamber&#8217;s vote tally came to a tie at 215 to 215 when three House Republicans joined Democrats to oppose an effort to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the impasse was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alejandro-mayorkas-impeachment-vote-house-of-representatives\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">quickly resolved<\/a><\/span>, as a fourth House Republican changed his vote to oppose the bill in a procedural move that allows leadership to bring the legislation up again at a later date, it brought forward an issue that could come up again with a razor-thin Republican majority in the lower chamber \u2014 what happens if there&#8217;s a tie vote in the House?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/02\/07\/e88ff3ce-93d3-4d6d-b52e-70333353917d\/thumbnail\/620x413\/3f0f09c8ca3be62f502adbed345d4fc0\/gettyimages-1983626684.jpg#\" alt=\"A view of US Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on February 06, 2024. \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/02\/07\/e88ff3ce-93d3-4d6d-b52e-70333353917d\/thumbnail\/620x413\/3f0f09c8ca3be62f502adbed345d4fc0\/gettyimages-1983626684.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/02\/07\/e88ff3ce-93d3-4d6d-b52e-70333353917d\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/83f9d69b574bd49c2a2af05f8379342a\/gettyimages-1983626684.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">A view of US Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on February 06, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Yasin Ozturk\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>What a tie vote means in the House\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>According to House rules, in the case of a tie vote, a question before the chamber &#8220;shall be lost.&#8221; In the lower chamber, where Republicans hold just a slim majority and often see a handful of defections among their conference, there&#8217;s no tie-breaker. Unlike in the Senate, where a tie-breaking vote may be cast, no one is brought in to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<h2>Breaking a tie vote in the Senate<\/h2>\n<p>In the upper chamber, which sees tie votes with more regularity, the Vice President is called upon to cast tie-breaking votes. In recent years, with a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris has on more than 30 occasions <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kamala-harris-senate-tie-breakng-votes-record-john-calhoun\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cast a tie-breaking vote<\/a><\/span>, breaking the record set almost 200 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kaia-hubbard\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kaia  Hubbard<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Kaia Hubbard is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House fails to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas House fails to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas 03:04 The House began voting July 2, 2025, on whether to open debate for a sprawling Trump-backed domestic spending bill, but some GOP holdouts could endanger its passage. 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