Category talk:Presidents Pro Tempore of the United States Senate

Byrd is dead. The King of Pork came very close to dying on the anniversary of the death of the King of Pop. This time next year anyone who is a King of P____ might get nervous.

Daniel Inouye (D-HI) is now PPT.

We might want to go back to having Senators contest the election rather than automatically falling to senior senators. Byrd was 92, wheelchair-bound, and had only cast two votes in the 111th session. The idea that the presidency might have fallen to someone so incapacitated is frightening. Though of course in practice it's never actually happened that anyone other than the Vice President became President, so I suppose there's no harm in it. Turtle Fan 20:05, June 28, 2010 (UTC)