I don’t buy that as an excuse for not going on the record to vote for or against an amendment to $2 Trillion legislation. As least have the minority leader and majority leader agree to a unanimous consent to cast your YES vote and force the VP to cast HER vote.
Much ado about nothing. Would it have made a difference? kamala’s their trump. Use your head.
The VP, while President of the Senate, is neither minority nor majority leader and only has a vote when the chamber is equally divided.
There isn’t a Canadian equivalent, but the closest one would be our Speaker of the House, who has about three orders of magnitude less clout than the U.S. speaker of the House, whose legislative power is the closest U.S. equivalent to the Prime Minister (legislative power only), albeit close to two orders of magnitude less clout.