Editing President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate

The '''president pro tempore of the United States Senate''' 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|vice president of the United States]], despite not being a senator, is the president of the Senate. It also establishes that the Senate must choose a president pro tempore to act in his absence:
{{Blockquote| The Senate shall choose their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he or she shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.}}
The president pro tempore is third in the line of succession to the presidency, after the vice president and the [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House of Representatives]] and ahead of the [[Secretary of State]], however this has been changed on occasion, most notably by the Presidential Succession Act of 2018,<ref>https://trello.com/c/26ncKuRZ/172-public-law-66-8-presidential-succession-act-of-2018</ref> which, due to a clerical error, resulted in N_ightmarre becoming [[president of the United States]] in 2021.

== List of presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate ==
To be done at a later date.

== References ==
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