[Paladin2]

" It’s my understanding that the Speaker doesn’t HAVE to be a sitting Congressman."

Yet the Speaker is 3rd in line. Things that make you go - HHhmmm..

[txhurl]

” It’s my understanding that the Speaker doesn’t HAVE to be a sitting Congressman.”
Yet the Speaker is 3rd in line. Things that make you go - HHhmmm..

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It sounds weird until you consider the amendment that made Senators elected by the people, instead of the states.

With the Vice President as Senate ‘leader’, the states then had control of who succeeded the President, and after that the people, with the house.