Cabinet-level administration offices

Some positions are not part of the Cabinet, but have cabinet-level rank, meaning that their occupants are permitted to attend Cabinet meetings. As of Stephen Johnson's and Rob Portman's oaths of office on April 29, 2005, these offices are populated as follows:

Office	Incumbent	State
Vice President of the United States	Richard B. Cheney	Wyoming
White House Chief of Staff	Andrew H. Card Jr.	Massachusetts
Deputy Chief of Staff	Karl Rove	Utah
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Stephen L. Johnson	Maryland
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Joshua B. Bolten	Washington, D.C.
Director of the National Drug Control Policy	John P. Walters	Michigan
U.S. Trade Representative	Rob Portman	Ohio
Director of the CIA	Porter J. Goss	Florida
United States Ambassador to the United Nations	John R. Bolton	Maryland
Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response	R. David Paulison (acting)	Florida
White House Counsel	Harriet Miers	Texas
National Security Advisor	Stephen Hadley	Washington, D.C.
Director of National Intelligence	John Negroponte	New York

Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government. As first in the presidential line of succession, the Vice President becomes the new President of the United States upon the death, resignation, or removal of the President. The Vice President also serves as the President of the Senate, and may break tie votes in that chamber.

The current Vice President of the United States is Dick Cheney.

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Constitutional requirements:

Ø a natural-born citizen of the United States

Ø at least thirty-five years of age

Ø a resident of the U.S. for 14 years.

The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires vice presidents to meet the same requirements as presidents.

Traditionally, the Vice President-Elect takes office just before the President-Elect. Unlike the President, the Constitution does not specify an oath of office for the Vice President. Several variants of the oath have been used since 1789; the current form, which is also recited by Senators, Representatives and other government officers, has been used since 1884.

Election

The tumultuous affair led to the adoption of Amendment XII in 1804, which directed the electors to use separate ballots to vote for the President and Vice President. While this solved the problem at hand, it ultimately had the effect of lowering the prestige of the Vice Presidency, as the Vice President was no longer the second choice for President.

The Constitution also prohibits electors from voting for both a Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate from the same state as themselves. In theory, this might deny a Vice Presidential candidate with the most electoral votes the absolute majority required to secure election, even if the Presidential candidate is elected, and place the Vice Presidential election in the hands of the Senate. In practice, this requirement is easily circumvented by having the candidate for Vice President change the state of residency as was done by Dick Cheney who changed his legal residency from Texas to Wyoming, his original homestate, in order to run for election as Vice President alongside George W. Bush.

Formally, the Vice Presidential candidate is nominated by the party convention. However, it has long been the custom that the Vice Presidential candidate has been effectively named by the Presidential candidate. Often, the Presidential candidate will name a Vice Presidential candidate to bring geographic or ideological balance to the ticket or to appeal to a particular constituency.

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