If the Building that they are having the State of the Union Address got Bombed by Terrorists?

Start all over again to select the President.

If the Capitol had been bombed tonight by terrorists our new president would have been Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. He was the one chosen to stay behind incase of such an event.

Last year it was the Attorney General Gonzalez and the year before that it was the Veterens Affairs Secretary(I think).

The Vice President Dick Cheney

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

President pro tempore of the Senate (1) Robert Byrd

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates

Attorney General Michael Mukasey

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne

Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Conner (2)

Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez (3)

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao (4)

Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson

Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings

Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff

NOTE: An official cannot succeed to the Presidency unless that person meets the Constitutional requirements.

1. The president pro tempore presides over the Senate when the vice president is absent. The president pro tempore is elected by the Senate, but by tradition the position is held by the senior member of the majority party.

2. Acting.

3. Carlos Gutierrez was born in Cuba and is ineligible.

4. Elaine Chao was born in Taiwan and is ineligible.

The designated survivor, this year it was the Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne. Or it would be the President Pro Tempore which is Robert Byrd.

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There is always one member of the cabinet who does not attend the state of the union so in that event, there would be a clear successor to the Presidency.

One Cabinet member is required not attend the State of the Union speech so if that happens, he/she will be President. The Cabinet Department varies each year.

Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne

There is always a cabinet member or congress member elsewhere and he is the one for this speech and would be President if everyone died there

I believe the Secretary of the Interior is not there tonight someone was saying.

Rush