Vice Presidential Vacancies: Congressional Procedures in the Ford and Rockefeller Nominations

Authors

Congressional Research Service. Library of Congress
Government and Finance Division. Library of Congress

Files

Description

This report was issued approximately a month and a half before the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. If Clinton had been impeached and removed, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment would have been used to fill the vice presidential vacancy.

Start Date

8-21-1998

Publisher

Congressional Research Service

City

Washington, D.C.

Keywords

25th Amendment, Twenty-Fifth Amendment, Presidential Succession, Vice Presidential Succession, Congressional Procedures