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The Vice President of the United States is also the President of the Senate. He or she can only cast a vote in the case of a tie. This role is defined in Article 1 Section 3 of the U. S. Constitution.
who is the president
of senate in the federal goverment thanks The Vice-President of the United States is the president of the Senate. This means he gets to cast the tie-breaking vote.
Since the vice-president is rarely around to preside over the Senate, the Senate choses a president pro tempore (pro tempore means "for the time being") to preside in his absence. Usually, the president pro tempore is the most senior senator from the majority party.
The current President pro tempore of the Senate is Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia). Obviously, the current president of the Senate is Joe Biden.
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