President of the Senate U.S. federal government was established in 1789. The vice president with the most tie breaking votes is John Adams (served 1789–1797) with 29. The current Vice President Mike Pence, in office since January 2017, has cast seven tie-breaking votes. In state governments of the United States, the presiding officer of the state senate (the upper house) is a matter decided by the state's constitution. Some states designate the lieutenant governor as president of the senate, while in other states, the Senate elects its own president. The Tennessee Senate elects a senator Speaker of the Senate, who is given the title
President of the National Council (Austria) of the National Council at the beginning of each legislative session. The Presidium even remains active after the dissolution of the National Council, until the Council obtains its new elected leadership. This also applies if the President of the former legislative session has no mandate in the new session. In the second republic it became a political practice, that the most powerful party receives the President and the second and third most powerful party the second and third president. The exact tasks of the President and his deputies are determined in the "Nationalratsgeschäftsordnung". He is in charge of the administrative