2007-01-04 11:29:46 · 16 answers · asked by keywest508 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
No one does, but the president can appoint someone.
Its not like the presidency where there is a list of who comes next.
2007-01-04 11:32:32 · answer #1 · answered by justa 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My US government is a little rusty, but I'm pretty sure the President appoints a new vice president. If the President dies, and the VP replaces him, then he would appoint the new VP, so it's not very likely that the speaker of the house will ever be the President (at least by those means).
2007-01-04 11:32:12 · answer #2 · answered by DOOM 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Under the 26th Amendment, it's the speaker of the house who is next in line to the president, BUT the president gets to appoint a new vice president with the advice and consent of the senate. In 1973, with Spiro Agnew facing time in Maryland on a fraud conviction, President Nixon appointed Gerald Ford, then the House minority leader, to be the vice president. A year later, in August 1974, Nixon resigned and Ford became the president, not the then Speaker of the House, Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts.
2007-01-04 11:35:49 · answer #3 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The President simply appoints someone else. The new vice president has to be approved by a majoority in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
The line of succession, several people have mentioned, is in case of some major disaster where most of the government officilals are dead.
2007-01-04 12:43:43 · answer #4 · answered by ces1958@verizon.net 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the two the President and vp of the are no longer able to serve, the Speaker of the domicile takes over as President. Then it somewhat is the President professional Tempore of the Senate, accompanied through the Secretary of State.
2016-11-26 19:45:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the order of Presidential succession is as follows:
The Vice President
Speaker of the House
President pro tempore of the Senate
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security
If for any reason a candidate is not able to become president, for being to young or not having been born in the US, the next available person will take office.
2007-01-04 11:37:32 · answer #6 · answered by greencoke 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert (rep. Illinois)
2007-01-04 11:39:43 · answer #7 · answered by Tweet 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Speaker of the House
2007-01-04 11:32:23 · answer #8 · answered by 1st time Mommy!!! :) 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
the president chooses a new VP and th senate confirms, this is how Ford became VP then president, he was never elected to either position
2007-01-04 11:39:03 · answer #9 · answered by cav 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The president appoints a new vp.
2007-01-04 11:32:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋