Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for an election for the office of President and the office of Vice President in the case of a vacancy both in the office of President and the office of Vice President, or in the case of a vacancy in the office of President if the person serving as Vice President was chosen as provided by the 25th article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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Constitutional Amendment - Sets forth procedures providing for an election for the office of President and the office of Vice President in the case of a vacancy in both the office of President and the office of Vice President. Provides that in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both of the President and Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives or, in the case of a vacancy in the office of speaker, such other officer as the Congress may declare, shall act as President until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. Provides that in cases where there are two years or more remaining in the then current Presidential term, each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors for President and vice President equal to the number of Senators and Representatives to which the State is entitled in the Congress.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 21 March 1975

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