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-as of [9 JULY 2024]-
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-CHUCK GRASSLEY-
([republican senator] from [iowa])
-[3 JANUARY 2025] – [PRESENT]-
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-PATTY MURRAY-
([female democratic senator] from [wisconsin])
-[3 JANUARY 2023] – [3 JANUARY 2025]-
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*ORRIN HATCH*
(90th ‘president pro tempore’)
(republican)
(utah)
(elected 6 january 2015)
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(/หproส หtษmpษriห/ or /หproส หtษmpษreษช/),
also president pro tem
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-the president pro tempore of the United States Senate is the 2nd-highest-ranking official of the โUnited States Senateโ-
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(โpro temporeโ is latin for โfor the time beingโ)
(as the โpresident pro temporeโ temporarily assumes leadership of the senate when the โvice presidentโ is โunavailableโ)
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(‘Article One’, Section Three of the United States Constitution provides that the Vice President of the United States is, despite not being a senator, the President of the Senate, and mandates that the Senate must choose a president pro tempore to act in the Vice President’s absence)
(unlike the vice president, the president pro tempore is an elected member of the Senate, able to speak or vote on any issue)
(selected by the Senate at large, the president pro tempore has enjoyed many privileges and some limited powers)
(during the vice president’s absence, the president pro tempore is empowered to preside over Senate sessions)
(in practice, neither the vice president nor the president pro tempore usually presides; instead, the duty of presiding officer is rotated among junior senators of the majority party to give them experience in ‘parliamentary procedure’)
(since 1890, the most senior senator in the majority party has generally been chosen to be ‘president pro tempore’ and holds the office continuously until the election of another)
(this tradition has been observed without interruption since 1949)
(since enactment of the current ‘Presidential Succession Act’ in 1947, the ‘president pro tempore’ is third in the line of succession to the presidency, after the vice president and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and ahead of the ‘Secretary of State’)
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๐๐|/\-*WIKI-LINK*-/\|๐๐
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๐๐๐ โ *โPRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSIONโ*
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*โSENATE LEADERSHIPโ* โ ๐๐๐
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*๐โจ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* โจ๐ท*
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๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ*we won the war* ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ