Washington Democrat Patty Murray has become the first female president pro tempore of the Senate and is third in line to the presidency.
When Sen. Patty Murray was elected to the Senate in 1992, she says, male senators treated her with some trepidation. But now the Washington state Democrat has outlasted almost all of them and become the first woman appointed president pro tempore — a senior member of the majority who presides over the Senate and is third in line to the presidency.
She assumed the post of president pro tem upon the retirement of Vermont’s Patrick J. Leahy, who served almost five decades in the Senate and stood beside her as she was sworn in. “It’s different,” Murray said, “But I’ve been through a lot of changes in my life, and I tend to just focus on what I need to do.”
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