The Senate has voted to change the line of succession -- moving the Homeland Security Secretary from last in line to number eight to take over if the President -- and everyone else in between -- is unable to do the job.
The new line looks like this:
The new line looks like this:
- Vice President Dick Cheney
- House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
- Senate President Pro Tem Ted Stevens (R-AK)
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
- Treasury Secretary John Snow
- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
- Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton
- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns
- Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez
- Labor Secretary Elaine Chao
- Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt
- Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson
- Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta
- Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman
- Education Secretary Margaret Spellings
- Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson
But Sec Gutierrez was born in Cuba and Sec Chao was born in Taiwan. The Constitution requires the President be a native born American so those two would be ineligible. (WashPost)
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