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Yes, he does attend cabinet meetings.
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Eleanor Roosevent
The vice president is not obligated to attend cabinet meetings. If he does, it is at the sole discretion of the President. For critical issues it makes sense since the vice president may be called to take over for the President at any moment.
Cabinet meetings are normally conducted every week
Cabinet members typically work in government buildings such as the White House or the relevant government department's headquarters. They also attend cabinet meetings, which are usually held in the White House or in other locations designated by the president.
The Cabinet meetings of the United States of America are not held by a majority whip.
Under Tony Blair, cabinet meetings were held most Thursdays of the year, in addition to a handful of emergency Cabinet meetings. It is not possible to determine exactly how many meetings were held, but we can safely assume that in Tony Blair's decade in power, approximately 500 meetings of the Cabinet - give or take roughly a dozen - were held, in addition to many more meetings of Cabinet committees.
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this varies according to the president's wishes. in Reagan's first year as president, he held 36 cabinet meetings but Clinton only held 6 in his first year. cabinet meetings in the usa are not nearly as important or regular as cabinet meetings in the UK.
There is a room in the White House that is designed for cabinet meetings.
The seating order at cabinet meetings most accurately reflects the importance, in the Presidents eyes, of those cabinet departments. It is far more likely the Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense would be seated closer to the President than the Secretary of Education.