Presidential Succession

[Drakkon]

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101032.html

The Vice President Richard Cheney
Speaker of the House John Dennis Hastert
President pro tempore of the Senate1 Ted Stevens
Secretary of State Colin Powell
Secretary of the Treasury John Snow
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General John Ashcroft
Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton
Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman
Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
Secretary of Transportation Norman Yoshio Mineta
Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham
Secretary of Education Roderick Paige
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi
Secretary of Homeland Security2 Tom Ridge
NOTE: An official cannot succeed to the Presidency unless that person meets the Constitutional requirements.
1. The president pro tempore presides over the Senate when the vice president is absent. By tradition the position is held by the senior member of the majority party.
2. May move to number 8 on the list pending legislation.

now would you REALLY want the secretary of homeland security as president if the TOP 8 PEOPLE were knocked off?? maybe its just me...i dont care about the guy...im just saying the order seems a little funny 😀

 

[Beattie]

Makes as much sense as anything.

 

[Chadder007]

Where's the Rice?

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

It would make more sense to me than having, say, the Secretary of Agriculture as president.

I believe Elaine Chao (Secty of Labor) would actually be skipped, because she was born outside the United States.

 

[GasX]

I'm gonna get those rascally terrorists! huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh...

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
Where's the Rice?

You're right .. not on there.

I wouldn't have a problem with Conde Rice being President. It'd be a little weird, though. I think it's a man's job.