[CondoleezzaProtege]

If the vote is a tie, Vance is in Europe and won’t be present to break it?!

[9YearLurker]

We’d better not have any flippers!

[dayglored]

> If the vote is a tie, Vance is in Europe and won’t be present to break it?!

I'd bet that if the vote is this afternoon, and it's a tie, that Vance gets on a fast jet back to Washington so that he arrives here this evening to break the tie. Fortunately the timezone difference is in his favor.