And what happens if that person can’t do the job? That’s where the presidential line of succession comes in. It provides a ...

a designated survivor is kept away to ensure someone in the line of presidential succession stays alive. Picking a failsafe ...

The tradition calls for a member of the president's cabinet to be absent from speeches to joint sessions of Congress to ...

speaker of the House and all other cabinet officers in the presidential line of succession were incapacitated. There is no official protocol outlining how the administration is to select a ...

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins has been selected to be the designated survivor for President Trump's speech.

The President of the United States will deliver a meeting for both Houses of Congress tonight, but Trump will excuse the ...

President Trump's speech Tuesday night was delivered in front of members of both Houses of Congress and the entire presidential line of succession — with one notable exception. Each year, one ...