What does the vice president do?
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1.  First in succession for President\n\n2.  Serves as President of the Senate, among which duties are to break ties.\n\nThe role of Vice-president is a serious one, because of these two items, and should always be considered when voting a ticket.
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Well, there's President Cheney and his under secretary Carl Rove. Then there's Vice President Donald Rumsfeld with his under secretary Condeleeza Rice.\n\nOh, yeah. The Puppet. George "dubya" Bush.
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Number One Observatory Circle: Life at the Vice President's ResidenceToday, Vice President Richard Cheney and Lynne Cheney live in the Vice President's Residence. Like many Vice Presidential families, the Cheneys have ...\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/life/vpresidence.html -Before 1974, Vice Presidents and their families lived in their own home, but the cost of securing these private homes had grown substantially over the years. After years of debate, Congress agreed to refurbish the house at the Naval Observatory as a home for the Vice President.
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The Republican candidate in 2008 will have to distance themself as far from Bush as possible to have even a prayer at winning.  Being Bush's vice president will hurt them, not help them.  As for Cheney, he will be vice president until he dies, or until the term ends, whichever comes first.  He is the most powerful person on the planet, and he loves the job too much to give it up.
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Vice President (Richard B. Cheney) \nSpeaker of the House of Representatives (J. Dennis Hastert) \nPresident pro tempore of the Senate (Ted Stevens) \nSecretary of State (Condoleezza Rice) \nSecretary of the Treasury (John W. Snow) \nSecretary of Defense (Donald H. Rumsfeld) \nAttorney General (Alberto Gonzales) \nSecretary of the Interior (Gale Norton) \nSecretary of Agriculture (Mike Johanns) \nSecretary of Commerce (Carlos Gutierrez, ineligible) \nSecretary of Labor (Elaine Chao, ineligible) \nSecretary of Health and Human Services (Michael Leavitt) \nSecretary of Housing and Urban Development (Alphonso Jackson) \nSecretary of Transportation (Norman Y. Mineta) \nSecretary of Energy (Samuel W. Bodman) \nSecretary of Education (Margaret Spellings) \nSecretary of Veterans Affairs (Jim Nicholson)
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Depends on who you ask.\n\nThe President Power\n\nVice President Dick Cheney recently told the Washington Post that when the Bush administration entered office, it was determined to reinvigorate the presidency and reverse the steady reduction in executive power and prerogative that had persisted since Watergate. But what reduction could the vice president have had in mind? “The vice president,” noted Sen. John E. Sununu (R-N.H.), “may be the only person I know of that believes the executive has somehow lost power over the last 30 years.”\n\nWhether or not the vice president was correct in his analysis of the state of the presidency in the year 2000, there can be no question that since then George W. Bush has dramatically expanded the powers of the president—primarily though not exclusively in matters pertaining to the war on terror.\n\nOne of the most notorious examples involved the torture of prisoners, a power the administration claimed in the face of law and international agreements to the contrary. “The assertion in the various legal memoranda that the President can order the torture of prisoners despite statutes and treaties forbidding it was another reach for presidential hegemony,” wrote Anthony Lewis in the New York Review of Books. “The basic premise of the American constitutional system is that those who hold power are subject to the law … . Bush’s lawyers seem ready to substitute something like the divine right of kings.”\n\nArguably the greatest controversy of all was the revelation at the end of 2005 that the Bush administration had engaged in domestic surveillance without the necessary warrants. James Bamford, author of two books on the National Security Agency, points out the pertinent aspects of what would appear to be the relevant law: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), passed in 1978. According to Bamford, then-Attorney General Griffin Bell testified before the intelligence committee that FISA acknowledged no “inherent power of the President to conduct electronic surveillance.” As Bell himself put it, “This bill specifically states that the procedures in the bill are the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be conducted.”\n\nIn the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush administration officials spoke again and again of the president’s inherent powers. But the pertinent statute in this case disclaims any such powers and requires that the president proceed according to the guidelines set out by Congress, which involves securing warrants from a special court. As things stand, the president is claiming a right to engage in surveillance of any American, unrestrained by any institutional check, in the service of the war on terror—a war that by its very nature must go on indefinitely and, indeed, that we can never really know is truly over.\n\nAccording to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the reason the administration did not seek to revise FISA to give the president the clear and unambiguous power to order these wiretaps was that even a Republican Congress would not have gone along. In a Dec. 19 press briefing, the attorney general said, “We have had discussions with Congress in the past—certain members of Congress—as to whether or not FISA could be amended to allow us to adequately deal with this kind of threat, and we were advised that that would be difficult, if not impossible.”\n\nThe administration’s claim, as set forth by the attorney general, is that Congress implicitly agreed to such wiretaps when in the days following Sept. 11 it authorized the use of force against the perpetrators and their allies. Of course, if Congress really had authorized them, it is not clear why it would be so difficult for the administration to persuade Congress to amend FISA accordingly in light of this permission.\n\nGonzales’s argument calls to mind H.L. Mencken’s 1937 “Constitution for the New Deal,” a satirical rewrite of the U.S Constitution, whi
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In the Vice-Presidential mansion!
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In case of a tie, the vice-president gets the tie breaking vote.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard_Fillmore#Vice-Presidency
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A U.S. president cannot become vice president if he serves more than 2 terms because if something were to happen to the president, the vice president would be first in the line of succession to become the next president.  Example:  Say Vice President Cheney were elected president.  He cannot select current President Bush to be his vice president because President Bush would have already served 2 terms as president and could not serve another term as president if something were to happen to President Cheney.  Not sure about Speaker of the House.
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Richard (Dick) B. Cheney is the Vice President of the United States.
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No. The Pres is always in full communication with his staff and it doesn't matter where he is. The VP does not take over for him unless he is incapacitated. Thank God. Would you want Cheney in charge for 5 minutes? Bush is bad enough.
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Umm if the President dies, the Vice President steps into office...
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Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States are elected every four years indirectly through the United States Electoral College. They are the only nationally-elected offices in the United States, since executive officers and judges are appointed, United States Senators are elected at the state level, and United States Representatives are elected at the district level.\n\nOn election day, the voting public selects its preferred candidate, usually by voting for a slate of electors put forward by the candidate's party. The ballots for each voting citizen typically has the names of the candidates for President and Vice President (running together on a ticket), and votes for those individuals translate at the state level into votes for the electors chosen from their respective parties. Although State Legislatures have the constitutional power to appoint slates of electors, all fifty states have established popular election of presidential electors. In December, following the general election, Electors gather at their respective State capitals to cast their ballots, which are then transmitted to Congress under the care of the sitting Vice President of the United States. Originally, under Article 2, the electors cast two votes for the office of President, the individual with the most votes becoming President, the runner up becoming Vice President. This changed with the 12th amendment, with each elector casting one vote for President and one vote for Vice President. The ballots are counted and certified in January before both houses of Congress. Should a candidate for either President or Vice President fail to achieve a majority of votes, the United States House of Representatives (voting by state) chooses the next president from among the candidates while the United States Senate (voting normally) selects the vice president.
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President Vice President \n\nGeorge Washington (1789-1797) John Adams (1789-1797) \nJohn Adams (1797-1801) Thomas Jefferson (1797-1801) \nThomas Jefferson (1801-1809) Aaron Burr (1801-1805) \n George Clinton (1805-1809) \nJames Madison (1809-1817) George Clinton (1809-1812) \n none (1812-1813) \n Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814) \n none (1814-1817) \nJames Monroe (1817-1825) Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825) \nJohn Quincy Adams (1825-1829) John C. Calhoun (1825-1829) \nAndrew Jackson (1829-1837) John C. Calhoun (1829-1832) \n none (1832-1833) \n Martin Van Buren (1833-1837) \nMartin Van Buren (1837-1841) Richard M. Johnson (1837-1841) \nWilliam Henry Harrison (1841) John Tyler (1841) \nJohn Tyler (1841-1845) none (1841-1845) \nJames K. Polk (1845-1849) George M. Dallas (1845-1849) \nZachary Taylor (1849-1850) Millard Fillmore (1849-1850) \nMillard Fillmore (1850-1853) none (1850-1853) \nFranklin Pierce (1853-1857) William King (1853) \n none (1853-1857) \nJames Buchanan (1857-1861) John C. Breckinridge (1857-1861) \nAbraham Lincoln (1861-1865) Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865) \n Andrew Johnson (1865) \nAndrew Johnson (1865-1869) none (1865-1869) \nUlysses S. Grant (1869-1877) Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873) \n Henry Wilson (1873-1875) \n none (1875-1877) \nRutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) William Wheeler (1877-1881) \nJames A. Garfield (1881) Chester Arthur (1881) \nChester Arthur (1881-1885) none (1881-1885) \nGrover Cleveland (1885-1889) Thomas Hendricks (1885) \n none (1885-1889) \nBenjamin Harrison (1889-1893) Levi P. Morton (1889-1893) \nGrover Cleveland (1893-1897) Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897) \nWilliam McKinley (1897-1901) Garret Hobart (1897-1901) \n Theodore Roosevelt (1901) \nTheodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) none (1901-1905) \n Charles Fairbanks (1905-1909) \nWilliam Howard Taft (1909-1913) James S. Sherman (1909-1912) \n none (1912-1913) \nWoodrow Wilson (1913-1921) Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1921) \nWarren G. Harding (1921-1923) Calvin Coolidge (1921-1923) \nCalvin Coolidge (1923-1929) none (1923-1925) \n Charles Dawes (1925-1929) \nHerbert Hoover (1929-1933) Charles Curtis (1929-1933) \nFranklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) John Nance Garner (1933-1941) \n Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945) \n Harry S Truman (1945) \nHarry S Truman (1945-1953) none (1945-1949) \n Alben Barkley (1949-1953) \nDwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) Richard Nixon (1953-1961) \nJohn F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1963) \nLyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) none (1963-1965) \n Hubert Humphrey (1965-1969) \nRichard Nixon (1969-1974) Spiro Agnew (1969-1973) \n none (1973) \n Gerald Ford (1973-1974) \nGerald Ford (1974-1977) none (1974) \n Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977) \nJimmy Carter (1977-1981) Walter Mondale (1977-1981) \nRonald Reagan (1981-1989) George Bush (1981-1989) \nGeorge Bush (1989-1993) Dan Quayle (1989-1993) \nBill Clinton (1993-2001) Al Gore (1993-2001) \nGeorge W. Bush (2001- )
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Like, where the Vice Pres. lives and works?\n\n"Number One Observatory Circle"\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_One_Observatory_Circle
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Well, assuing you mean the secreatry of state it would be:\n\nThe secretary is the president's foreign policy adviser. The incumbent is responsible for coordination among various agencies in developing and implementing foreign policy; leading and coordinating U.S. representation abroad; conveying U.S. foreign policy to foreign governments and international organizations through U.S. embassies and consulates in foreign countries and diplomatic missions to international organizations; conducting negotiations and concluding agreements and treaties on issues ranging from trade to nuclear weapons; and coordinating and supporting international activities of other U.S. agencies and officials.\n\nHope that helps, below is a link to job descriptions for the presidents entire cabinet :-)