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New Bill Would Update Presidential Succession

By Mark Preston
Roll Call Staff
April 28, 2005, Midnight

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) are urging their respective party leaders to require presidential and vice presidential nominees to name “successors” as part of a new comprehensive proposal to establish a clear line of presidential succession.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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