The current president pro tempore is Daniel Inouye from Hawaii.
No, Nancy Pelosi is not the president pro tempore. Patrick Leahy currently holds that position.
$193,400 is the annual salary of the pro tempore and the two party leaders. The rest of the senators are paid $ 174,000 per year.
"Pro tempore" means temporary.
Daniel Inouye is the current president pro tempore. Inouye is from Hawaii.Senator Patrick Leahy is the President pro tempore as of August of 2014. Leahy is the senior US Senator from the state of Vermont.
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President Pro Tempore of the Senate. The office also existed in the Confederate States of America.
The president pro tempore presides over the Senate when the Vice President is absent. The current president pro tempore (as of 5/17) is Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah.
Usually abbreviated to pro tem, pro tempore means 'for the time being'.
Patrick Leahy from Vermont is the current president pro Tempore. The pro tempore is a senator elected by the Senate. By tradition they elect the majority party member with the longest seniority in the Senate. Leahy is in his 7th term and was 72 when he replaced 88-year-old Daniel Inouye in Dec, 2012.
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As the people's representative to make various legislation, this gives the members of the senate the honorary position.