President pro tempore is the presiding officer of US senate. His responsibility is to maintain order and decorum of the house and its regulations. Normally the senior most senator from majority party is elected as President pro tempore.
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George Washington was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention.
The president Pro-Tempore is the presiding officer in the senate. That individual is in charge of the Senate agenda in the absence of the vice president.
The Vice President of the United States is the presiding officer in the Senate. It is only in the absence of the Vice President that the president pro tempore is empowered to preside.
Bishop Charles Harrison Mason 1866-1961