Thursday, April 7, 2011

Succession Research

Speaker of the House

John Boehner is speaker of the house and is next in power to the vice President. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1977, for Xavier University. On January 5, 2011 he swore in the 112th Congress as the 53rd Speaker of the House. The house under the new majority is working to make the legislative process more open and to ensure the priorities of the American are reflected in the priorities of lawmakers. his goal is to remove government barriars to private-sector job creation and economic growth, cutting government spending, reforming Congress, and rebuilding the bonds of trust between the American people and their representatives in Washington.
 
Vice President

Joe Binden is the first person in line for president if the president dies.  Vice president was US Constitution.
He votes in the senate when there is a tie vote while the Senate has added supermajority rules that have diminished this Constitutional power, in important circumstances the Vice President retains the ability to affect legislation.  He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council. Then, at age 29, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate. As a Senator from Delaware for 36 years, Senator Biden established himself as a leader on some of our nation's most important domestic and international challenges

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