Oh those third graders with those liberal bias questions..what can you do?

She was talking to a reporter in a national tv interview. The question was sent in by a third grader but the answer was for everybody. And even if it was a simplification for a third grader, it was still mostly wrong. The Vice President IS formally the President of the Senate, but all that really entails is overseeing procedure and occasionally casting a tie-breaking vote. The VP does not have any more ability to "really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes" than any other citizen. There's very little power over the Senate granted to the VP. The branches are still mostly separate.