I Am Not On This List....

I always wondered about this just for academic reasons. The [new proposed and to be voted on] order of those in line to assume the presidency if President Bush is unable to serve would be:

Vice President: Dick Cheney
House Speaker: Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.
Senate President Pro Tem: Ted Stevens, R-Alaska
Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice
Treasury Secretary: John Snow
Defense Secretary: Donald H. Rumsfeld
Attorney General: Alberto Gonzales*
Homeland Security Secretary: Michael Chertoff
Interior Secretary: Gale A. Norton
Agriculture Secretary: Mike Johanns
Commerce Secretary: Carlos Gutierrez
Labor Secretary: Elaine Chao*
Health and Human Services Secretary: Mike Leavitt
Housing and Urban Development Secretary: Alphonso Jackson
Transportation Secretary: Norman Y. Mineta
Energy Secretary: Samuel Bodman
Education Secretary: Margaret Spellings
Veterans Affairs Secretary: Jim Nicholson

*The Constitution, however, requires that the president be a natural-born citizen, so Gutierrez, born in Cuba, and Chao, born in Taiwan, would be ineligible.