Homeland Security Sec. goes to #8 in line to presidency

donsu

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Wed Jul-27-05 01:48 PM
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Homeland Security Sec. goes to #8 in line to presidency

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/line_of_succession;_ylt=AsQIi4IgJUUXLOfq42XflAis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Senate Changes Line of Succession

The Senate approved a bill Tuesday to raise the homeland security secretary from last to eighth place in the presidential line of succession, just after the attorney general.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Mike DeWine (news, bio, voting record), R-Ohio, passed without objection just before the chamber adjourned. The companion House bill, sponsored by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., is pending before the Judiciary and Government Reform committees.

If the bill also passes the House, the order of those in line to assume the presidency if
President Bush is unable to serve would be:

(here is the entire list of names)
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Ohio

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Kilroy003

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Wed Jul-27-05 01:54 PM
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1. Hell, if seven other Prezes' had already

taken the dirt nap or the 25th, I can't imagine that anyone would want to become # 8.

What an honor...

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Lerkfish

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Wed Jul-27-05 01:55 PM
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2. why is this even necessary?

the shift, I mean.

is it because they expect the top 7 to be thrown out of office?

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Kilroy003

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Wed Jul-27-05 01:56 PM
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3. Oh, I hadn't thought of that.

Maybe...

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woodsprite

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Wed Jul-27-05 02:25 PM
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7. That's what I'm thinking - getting their neocon ducks in a row. n/t

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GreenPartyVoter

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Wed Jul-27-05 01:59 PM
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6. I think it's just that DHS sec'y wasn't feeling important enough

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K-W

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Wed Jul-27-05 03:48 PM
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9. Like most things congress does, it isnt.

If the top 7 people in the white house went down, we would need to have emergency elections.

This is just a way for congresspeople to seem like they are doing something involving homeland security.

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gristy

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Wed Jul-27-05 01:58 PM
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4. not unreasonable

Moved him/her just ahead of Secretary of the Interior.

Here's the current order:

* Vice President
* Speaker of the House of Representatives
* 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

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Lerkfish

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Wed Jul-27-05 03:45 PM
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8. yes, but notice the top seven are in the tight cabal

* Vice President
* Speaker of the House of Representatives
* President Pro Tempore of the Senate
* Secretary of State
* Secretary of the Treasury
* Secretary of Defense
* Attorney General

From the secty of the interior on down, they are appointees but not in the inner corrupt circle, and Homeland Security is.

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Kilroy003

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Wed Jul-27-05 01:59 PM
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5. So it's...

Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 01:59 PM by Kilroy003

Nevermind.

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