• Provides for a President pro tempore of the Senate to act as President of the Senate when the Vice President is absent

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The Senate shall chuse [sic] their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of the President of the United States.


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  • Since World War II the President pro tempore has been the senior member of the majority party

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