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              US: Veteran Senator Third in Presidential Succession

   by VOA News

   A long-time U.S. senator, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, is now third in the
   line of presidential succession in the country.

   Leahy, a Democrat who has served in the Senate since 1975, was sworn in
   Tuesday as the president pro tempore in the upper chamber of Congress.
   It is a largely ceremonial position he is assuming after the death
   Monday of Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye.

   But the position, by law, also puts the 72-year-old Leahy third in line
   to the U.S. presidency, behind Vice President Joe Biden, another
   Democrat, and House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican.

   In the U.S., no one below vice president has assumed the presidency
   upon the death or resignation of the president.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.
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