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Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Subcategories

• Presidential Succession Act

Resources in This Category

• Ben's Guide (9-12): The Order of Succession

  http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/government/national/succession.html
  Shown are links to offices held by those who are in the order of succession. From the Government Printing Office.

• Miller Center Commission on Presidential Disability

  http://millercenter.org/policy/commissions/priorcommissions#disability
  The Commission examined the 25th Amendment in order to identify potential difficulties in presidential succession that might arise in extremely complicated scenarios. Includes link to PDF of the report.

• Presidential Succession

  http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa010298.htm
  Order of succession if the President of the United States if the sitting president quits, dies, becomes disabled or is impeached.

• Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
  Includes history, text and application of the Amendment.

 

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