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Question

Congress passed the Predidential Succession Act of 1947 tha stated the order of succession after the Vp is as follows:
A.president Pro Tempore of the sentate, secretary of state, treasurey, defense, and other cabinet heads
B.Speaker of the house, president pro tempore of he senate, secretary of state treasurey defense and other cabinet heads
C.secretary of state treasury speaker of the house secretary of defense tempore of the senate and other cabinet heads
D.predient pro tempore of hte senate treasury secretary of state treasury and other cabinet heads

Answer 1

"The new law restored the Congressional officers to places directly after the Vice President, but switched their order from the 1792 Act - placing the House Speaker first and the President Pro Tempore second. The Cabinet officers then followed, again in the order in which their respective departments were created with one exception: the Secretary of Defense (a department created in 1947 following a merger of the Departments of War and Navy) was placed fifth in the overall order, directly after the Secretary of the Treasury. This placed the Defense Department in the place that would have been held by the Department of War, its predecessor."

"Presidential Succession Act : Current Act (1947)" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act#Current_Act_.281947.29

"Current order"

"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)

"1 Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate Richard Cheney
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd
4 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
5 Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson
6 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
7 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
8 Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne
9 Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns
-- Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez
(ineligible; not a natural-born citizen)†
-- Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
(ineligible; not a natural-born citizen)†
10 Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt
11 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson
12 Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters
13 Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman
14 Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
15 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson"

"United States presidential line of succession : Current order" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession#Current_order

Answer 2

Speaker of the House is next in order after the Vice President, so B is the correct answer. In other words, if both President Bush and VP Cheney were to die or become incapacitated, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would become the first woman president.