What happens if a Vice President resigns and nobody takes his place? - Constitution Daily (blog)
The exact quote in the Times was, “in a sign of the conflicting pressures surrounding Mr. Biden, the vice president has told people that the terminal brain cancer of Beau Biden, who died in May, had caused him to consider resigning the vice... ” It also established a process where Congress must approve a replacement Vice President. ” The reality is that despite political divisions, a President and Congress would probably move quickly to fill a Vice Presidential vacancy because of the considerable problems triggered by the lack of a Vice President. In October 1973, President Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew just two days after Agnew’s resignation as Vice President. Ford was confirmed within two months in a very difficult political environment, with Nixon (a Republican) getting a Congress controlled by Democrats to approve Ford. A year later, Ford was able to get Nelson Rockefeller confirmed as his replacement after a four-month process. While on the surface, the Vice Presidential “job description” seems light in the Constitution, compared with the expectations for the President, the 25 Amendment was ratified by the states in 1967 and. Source: blog.constitutioncenter.org
