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The President of the Senate has what is called a "casting vote," defined as the decisive vote of a presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided.








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WhiteHouse.gov - Vice President Joe Biden* - Official biography of Vice President Joe Biden.
United States Seante - Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate)* - U.S. Senate Historical Office's compendium of information about the office and the people who have held it, including detailed discussion of the role of the Vice President in presiding over the Senate.

  • Vice Presidential Tie-Breaking Votes - The Constitution gives the Vice President of the senate United States senate power to vote when the Senate senate is equally divided, and senate the Senate Historian has senate listed all of those occasions when senate the Senate senate President has broken a tie vote.
  • Federalist No. 68 by Alexander Hamilton - Hamilton wrote that "to secure at all times the possibility senate of a definite resolution of the body, it is necessary senate that the President [i.e. the Vice President of the U.S.] senate should have only a casting vote."
  • Senate Precedents Regarding the Vice President of the United States - Details about historical Senate precedents regarding the President senate of the Senate are provided by Riddick\'s Senate senate Procedure.[PDF]
  • Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, Section XVII - Thomas Jefferson was the second Senate President. Section senate XVII of senate president his Manual covers debate, and says senate that no one is senate president to speak superfluously or senate tediously, and that the Senate President\\'s senate president decision is senate without appeal. This rule has since been modified.
  • Constitutional Role of the Vice President of the United States - The Framers of the Constitution explain why they legislative branch designated senate president the Vice President of the United States legislative branch as President senate president of the Senate, in Article I, legislative branch Section 3, Clause senate president 4 of the Constitution.
  • The Senate and the United States Constitution - The position of the Vice President as President senate of the legislative branch Senate was borrowed from the New senate York Constitution.
  • Definition of "Casting Vote" in Oxford English Dictionary - The President of the Senate has what is called a senate president "casting vote," defined as the decisive vote of a presiding senate president officer, when the votes of the assembly or house are senate president equally divided.


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