Kamala Harris officially resigned from Senate on January 19 ahead of his inauguration as the 49th Vice President of the United States of America.
Harris will preside over the upper house of the chamber after assuming the charge as the Vice President. In an Op-Ed written in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 18, she indicated after becoming the Vice President, it will be in her capacity to be the president of the Senate.
Harris wrote, "As I resign from the Senate, I am preparing to take an oath that would have me preside over it."
Harris will have the power of a tie-breaking vote when both Republican and Democratic parties will hold 50 seats in the chamber.
It will be historic for America as Harris will be the first woman Vice President and first woman of color, Indian American and African America to assume the office.
Harris will be taking oath of office on Regina Shelton's Bible. Shelton's Bible has been an integral part of Harris' every big moment of her political career. When she took the oath of office to become the Attorney General of California and when she swore to defend the constitution of America as a Senator from California, she took oath on Regina Shelton's Bible.
In an article written in Bustle, Kamala Harris in 2019 wrote, "I carry Mrs Shelton with me always." It will be one of the two Bible that will feature at Harris' coronation.
Another Bible belongs to Justice Thurgood Marshall was Civil Rights icon and Supreme Court justice to value his role in Harris' choice of Howard University for graduation.
Harris began referring to Shelton as her 'Second mother.' Shelton used to own three houses in a single block in Oakland where she ran nursery in one of the houses. After Harris' mother separated from her husband, she moved into an apartment above the nursery.
Harris will be sworn in by the Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor. She is also the first woman to administer the oath to Harris.