Presidential Inability: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. J. Res. 100 [and Others] Relating to the Inability of the President to Discharge the Powers and Duties of His OfficeConsiders constitutional amendments and legislation to provide for the orderly devolution upon the Vice President of Presidential powers and duties if the President is unable to discharge them, and a resumption by the President upon the passing of his inability. |
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Page 136 - 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.
Page 152 - SECTION 3 Whenever the President transmits to the President pro ternpore 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.
Page 5 - As an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in...
Page 212 - What is the extent of the term " disability," and who is to be the judge of it ? The postponement was agreed to, item.
Page 6 - President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the Office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the Office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress...
Page 30 - The Legislature may declare by law what officer of the United States shall act as President, in case of the death, resignation or disability of the President and Vice President ; and such officer shall act accordingly, until the time of electing a President shall arrive.
Page 9 - ... the powers and duties of the office is founded in whole or in part on the...
Page 6 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled (twothirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 5 - Congress — (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they are deemed a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of resolutions described by subsection f.
Page 226 - Congress together in extraordinary session, at which a president ad interim shall be appointed, and the call for presidential elections issued in the manner set forth in the foregoing paragraph. Should the disability of the President occur in the last four years of the respective term, Congress, if in session, shall choose a substitute president to hold office until the end of the presidential term; if Congress is not in session, the permanent...