Besides :LIB: firsts for the record book, what does she do? Vice presidents aren't automatically useless; Dick Cheney ran the empire for a while for example.
Besides :LIB: firsts for the record book, what does she do? Vice presidents aren't automatically useless; Dick Cheney ran the empire for a while for example.
No. Furthermore, the Senate has decided that it requires a supermajority to actually pass most legislation with the exception being reconciliation bills, so in most situations where a tie occurs in the senate the VP's deciding vote is meaningless, if I'm not mistaken.