The Vice President of the United States is the ex officio President of the Senate, with authority to preside over the Senate's sessions, although he can vote only to break a tie. For decades the task of presiding over Senate sessions was one of the vice president's principal duties.
However, because they ride atop the water, rather than cutting through it as other hulls do, flat-bottom boats are usually limited in the size of their motors. The flat surface may also give a spine-jarring ride in anything less than calm weather.
The hull bottom, up to the full length spray foils was one piece. Each hull side was a piece with the two halves joined at the stem and the vee of the transom. This method was used, not for structural or aesthetic reasons, but rather the factory did not have enough headroom to mold the boat in one piece.