re: #286 KGxvi

Random question, since I just went down a mini-rabbit hole on the Senate leadership… why isn’t the President Pro Tem of the Senate treated like the Speaker of the House? As in, why isn’t the leader of the majority party the PPT instead of the longest tenured member of the majority? Especially since the PPT is third in line of succession for the presidency?

I imagine it goes back to when the Senate was elected by the state legislatures. The Pro Temp assuming an elder statesman type role.