who is head of the senate?
2016-12-19T10:12:29-05:00. Modern presidents pro tempore, too, rarely preside over the Senate. In practice, the junior senators of the majority party typically preside in order to learn Senate procedure. The current Vice President of the United States and President of the United States Senate is Joe Biden.
The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate, despite not being a senator, and that the Senate must choose a president pro tempore.