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What cabinet member was left out of the 2011 state of the union address?
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Ken Salazar, the Secretary of Interior
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What cabinet member is absent in 2012 state of the union address?
Tom Vislack secretary of agriculture :)
Which cabinet member is not present at the 2008 state of the union address?
Dirk Kempthorne, the Secretary of the Interior
What cabinet member takes over as president should everyone be killed during the state of the union address?
Secretary of Transportation Succession goes through the Cabinet in the order that the positions were created.
Which cabinet member did not attend the 2012 state of the union address?
Since the entire federal government usually attends the State of the Union Message, it presents an opportunity, should there be a terrorist attack, that the persons next in line to succeed the President should he die in office, would also be killed. So it is the custom to have one cabinet member not attend the State of the Union. For President Obama's address on 27 January 2010, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Department of State, did not attend.
Why was cabinet member Dirk Kempthorne not present at the 2008 State of the Union Address?
The presidential line of succession goes like this: 1) vice-president 2) Speaker of the Hosue 3) President Pro Tempore of the Senate 4) Members of the Cabinet in the order in which the departments were created. This means that if the president dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice-president becomes president. If the president and vice-president die, resign or are removed from office, then the Speaker of the House becomes president, etc. etc. Since all 18 people in the presidential line of succession could potentially be at the president's state of the union address, one Cabinet member does not attend in case there would be some sort of disastrous bombing at the State of the Union Address that killed the president, vice-president, speaker of the house, president pro tempore of the senate and the Cabinet members. The surviving Cabinet member who is not at the state of the union address becomes president so that if nothing else, the American people know who their leader is. In 2008, the Cabinet member that did not attend was Dirk Kempthorne.
Who runs the country during the State of the Union Address?
Members of Congress will select one of the Cabinet Members to be absent from the State of the Union Address in order for the Government to run continuously.
What cabinet member did not attend the 2011 State of the Union Speech?
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Which of the 15 cabinet members was NOT present at the state of union address in 2013?
Steven Chu, United States Secretary of Energy
Who would be president if all elected officials died during the State of the Union address?
Which ever cabinet secretary does not attend
Who was the designated survivor for the state of the union address for 2010?
Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Hilary Clinton was also absent from the Address, as she was at a meeting in London. If all the attendees at the Address had been killed, she would have become President. However, since the public knew about this, another member of the Cabinet had to be the designated survivor.
How many ministers are in the union cabinet in United Arab emirates?
24 member
What is the annual address given by the president to congress called?
State of the Union Address
