HELP ITS TIMED! The role of the president pro tempore of the Senate is
•to be the leader of the Senate.
•to assign all joint committee members.
•to act as assistant to the party leader when needed.
•to act as a ceremonial role within the Senate.

The Constitution requires the Senate to elect a president pro tempore to serve as presiding officer in the absence of the vice president.

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.