Palin thinks the VP runs the Senate

[Care4all]

Read above. Crimson's pointed it out a dozen time. The VP would call for votes, appoint chairs, open and close sessions. They may also choose to participate in discussion. No one ever said that the VP would make the decisions for all the Senate, but they VP COULD have a more active role if they chose.

ALL of that is done with votes and procedures of the senate....

example... some senator calls to adjourn, another seconds the vote, the president of the senate bangs his hammer, calls for a vote on the proposal to adjourn, the vote is cast and counted and handed to the president and the president reads off what the senators voted, bangs his hammer again telling the chamber to quiet down, then the majority leader picks the next thing to discuss or vote on with so much time alotted to each side, they have so many speakers, the president of the senate keeps track of their time...bangs haqmmer when times are up./


Please, watch c-span, you and Crimson will view with your own eyes what the president of the senate's duties are and NONE of them control the agenda or the bills being brought up...THAT is NOT his duty....

it is a parliamentory procedural position.

 

[FarmGal]

ALL of that is done with votes and procedures of the senate....

example... some senator calls to adjourn, another seconds the vote, the president of the senate bangs his hammer, calls for a vote on the proposal to adjourn, the vote is cast and counted and handed to the president and the president reads off what the senators voted, bangs his hammer again telling the chamber to quiet down, then the majority leader picks the next thing to discuss or vote on with so much time alotted to each side, they have so many speakers, the president of the senate keeps track of their time...bangs haqmmer when times are up./


Please, watch c-span, you and Crimson will view with your own eyes what the president of the senate's duties are and NONE of them control the agenda or the bills being brought up...THAT is NOT his duty....

it is a parliamentory procedural position.

Thank you! That was the point I was trying to make. Pretty well nothing would describe the VP's role in the Senate unless there was a tie vote to break.

 

[Navy1960]

The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders (also called Senate Floor Leaders) are two United States Senators who are elected by the party conferences that hold the majority and the minority respectively. These leaders serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate. By custom, the Presiding Officer gives the Majority Leader priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor of the Senate.

The Majority leader customarily serves as the chief representative and "face" of his or her party in Senate, and sometimes even in all of Congress if the House of Representatives and thus the office of Speaker of the House is controlled by the opposition party.

Many state senates are organized in the same way as the United States Senate


The Democrats began this practice starting in 1920 while they were in the minority. In 1925 the majority (of the time) Republicans also adopted this language when Charles Curtis became the first Majority Leader.

The Constitution designates the Vice President of the United States as President of the Senate. The Constitution also calls for a President pro tempore to serve as the leader of the body when the President of the Senate (the Vice President) is absent. In practice, neither the Vice President nor the President pro tempore—customarily the longest-serving (most senior) Senator in the majority party—actually presides over the Senate on a daily basis; that task is given to junior Senators of the majority party, in part so they may learn proper parliamentary procedure. For these reasons, it is the Majority Leader who in practice manages the Senate.

In recent years, it has become more common for the leader of the minority party to be referred to as the leader of his party ("Democratic Leader" or "Republican Leader") instead of as "Minority Leader."


Technically according to the constitution even though the Vice President had no voting powers they are the President of the Senate, it has just become custom in the 20th century for the Vice President not to exercise that job. By assigning a president pro tempore the Vice President assigns their duties to that person, however, at anytime the Vice President can assume those constitutional duties.

The Vice President of the United States is the ex officio President of the Senate and can only vote to break a tie. By convention, however, the Vice President presides over very few Senate debates, attending only on important ceremonial occasions (such as the swearing-in of new senators) or at times when his vote may be needed to break a tie vote. The Constitution authorizes the Senate to elect a President pro tempore (Latin for "president for a time") to preside in the Vice President's absence; the most senior senator of the majority party is customarily chosen to serve in this position.

"The rules which are to govern the proceedings of this House, so far as they shall depend on me for their application, shall be applied with the most rigorous and inflexible impartiality, regarding neither persons, their views, nor principles, and seeing only the abstract proposition subject to my decision. If in forming that decision, I concur with some and differ from others, as must of necessity happen, I shall rely on the liberality and candor of those from whom I differ, to believe that I do it on pure motives." Thomas Jefferson on taking over the job of Vice President in the Senate.