[Preechr]

Actually, the ONLY responsibility of the VP is to head the Senate, but he is not a member of the legislative branch, either, surprisingly enough. Max is gonna love this... hehe... The Vice-President of the United States is actually a bureaucratic island of himself it seems. His office is there mainly for purposes of succession and, as a Constitutional afterthought with regard to ties in the Senate. VPs have traditionally subordinated themselves to the President, so as to obtain more responsibilities through Executive assignments, but unless the President tells him to do something and the VP assents, his main function is to stand there and glower eeeevily until the President dies unexpectedly.