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The president pro tempore of the United States Senate (also president pro tem) is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. Article I, Section Three of the United States Constitution provides that the vice president of the United States, despite not being a senator, is the president of the Senate.
The office of president pro tempore was established by the Constitution of the United States in 1789. Between 1792 and 1886, the president pro tempore was second in the line of presidential succession, following the vice president and preceding the speaker. Through 1891, the president pro tempore was appointed on an intermittent basis only ...
The following is a list of state-level presidents pro tempore in the United States: [1] ... President Party Since Alabama Del Marsh: R 2010 Arizona Eddie Farnsworth ...
The president pro tempore is the second highest-ranking official of the Senate. They fill in for the president in case of absence. The current president pro tempore is Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on Tuesday became the first female Senate president pro tempore, the second-highest-ranking position in the chamber.
She also served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2023 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Murray served in the Washington State Senate from 1989 to 1993. She was Washington's first female U.S. senator and is the first woman in American history to hold the position of president pro tempore.
If the House can’t elect a Speaker by Jan. 20, the constitutionally-prescribed Inauguration Day, then the new GOP-controlled Senate’s president pro-tempore (pro-tem), Grassley, would be ...
Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate. He was also president pro tempore from 2019 to 2021. Grassley is the senior United States senator from Iowa, serving since 1981. He is in his eighth term.