...two members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate, together with the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and the present Auditor General, shall be constituted a committee of eight, to make a full and complete...

...election; defeated by voice vote Senator Wiley's amendment to place in the line of succession, after the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Cabinet, the highest ranking military or naval officer; and defeated by voice vote Senator...

...case of the removal, death, resignation or inability of the President or Vice President, should be the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and then the Secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense, the Attorney General, Postmaster General,...

...Senate (84 CR 974, 1013). There were several speakers during the commemorative exercises, including the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Chief Justice, and the President of the United States (84 CR 2246-2252). Chief Justice Hughes' address...

...the President and the Vice Presidential Succession Act of 1948 provides then for the succession to the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and then on down through the Cabinet. But in setting up the new Cabinet position of Health, Education,...

...of acting as President may fall. These officers, under current arrangements, are the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and the 10 department heads of Cabinet rank.2* The statute should provide, therefore, that in the event...

...in event neither the President nor Vice President is available. As the chairman knows, these include the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, the Attorney General, the Postmaster General, and...

...would appoint a commission of great national prestige — perhaps two Justices of the Supreme Court, the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate — in order to avoid embarrassing the Vice President — and two members of the executive branch,...

...objections to a purely appointive President, one who had not been elected, we went to the succession through the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate and then added to that, because of the atomic threat, the line of succession going beyond the Speaker...

...with the advice and consent of theSenate, HR 9346, 9354 and 9366, 88th Congress, 1st session (1963) ; the Speaker of the House, the President pro tempore of the Senate, or the head of any executive department in line of succession to the Presidency, HR 9362, 88th Congress,...