United States Chain of Command

[39mto39g]

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?...&contentId=198

Ron

[PHO127]

is Pres, V Pres, Speaker of the house and I don't remember from there, I think next is the house majority leader. If it ever gets that far we are in deep dodo.

Why does the link not show the president??

[82Rigger]

This is a list of the current presidential line of succession, as specified by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. ? 19).

Current president: George W. Bush

Dick Cheney, Vice President

Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives

Ted Stevens, President pro tempore of the Senate

Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State

John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury

Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General

Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior

Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agriculture

ineligible: Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce (not a natural-born citizen of the U.S.)

ineligible: Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor (not a natural-born citizen of the U.S.)

Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services

Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Norman Mineta, Secretary of Transportation

Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy

Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education

Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs


Note -

The Secretary of Homeland Security has not yet been put into the line of succession. Senate Bill 442, approved by the Senate on July 26, 2005, would place the Secretary of Homeland Security after the Attorney General and before the Secretary of the Interior in the line of succession if it becomes law.