<span>In the absence of Vice President the speaker of
the house should resides. <span>The Speaker
of the House is the presiding officer of the United States
House of Representatives. <span>The Speaker is second in the United States presidential
line of succession, after the Vice President and ahead of
the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate. In the United
States, the Speaker of the House is a leadership position and the
office holder who actively works to set the majority party's legislati<span>ve agenda.</span></span></span></span>
<span>In Texas, it would take </span>30 days.
Uban revolutionaries intercepted the letter from the mail and released it to the Hearst<span> press, which published it on February 9, 1898, in the </span>New York Journal<span>, in an article titled "Worst Insult to the United States in its History." Much of the press in New York began to demand De Lôme's resignation, and Hearst's </span>New York Journal<span> began a "Go Home De Lôme" campaign. These campaigns did, ultimately, lead to De Lôme's resignation. De Lôme’s unflattering remarks about McKinley helped fuel the United States of America's aggressive, warlike foreign policy.</span><span>[citation needed]</span><span> Two months later, on April 11, 1898, McKinley delivered a war message to Congress asking for "forcible intervention" by the United States to establish peace in Cuba </span>