The Speaker's Word: 71st Congress, Vol. 4 - This Week in Congress
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The Speaker's Wor
Welcome to THE SPEAKER'S WOR
Dateline: Sunday, November 17 (Day 2189)
Location: 71st US Congress
Editor: George Armstrong "Old Man" Custer
Music: David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
The Word of the Day:
: 1 : Follow up to Last Week's Reports
: 2 : This Week's Congressional Activity
: 3 : The Week Ahead
Editor's Notes: First of all, my apology for getting this weekly edition of the Word out a day late.
And... welcome back to The real Speaker's Word newspaper at its proper home in the eUSA Congress Org.
The past three editions of the Speaker's Word may be found at:
The Speaker's Wor
The Speaker's Wor
The Speaker's Wor
Follow-up to Last Week's Congressional Activity Reports
The New Citizen Message thread remains open, mostly focusing on Ajay/RGR's frequent changing of his Party's name and how to accurately reflect this in the automated President's message to new players.
This Week's Congressional Activity
Sign-In 11/12/13: 30 Congressmen signed in; Quorum is set at 16
Increasing the Moving Tax was covered in Discussion, , Proposal and Vote.
Proposal:
WHEREAS, Plato is handing out Moving Tickets like Candy Corn on Halloween and,
WHEREAS, Moving Tickets? and,
WHEREAS, there is suddenly activity on the Moving Ticket market and,
WHEREAS, lots and lots of people don't want to actually USE Moving Tickets and,
WHEREAS, people are considering these things "found money" and,
WHEREAS, Congress likes to find money too and,
WHEREAS, an increase in Moving Ticket Tax might be a good way to take advantage of the sudden boon,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Congress should raise the Moving Ticket tax up from 1% to (let's go whole hog) 15%.
The in-game VAT & Import Taxes: Moving Tickets Vote actually ran twice, once for the Import Tax and once for the VAT Tax. Both passed without dissent.
Speaker Evry started [Discussion] SCI Related eUS Code Amendments, which seeks to change how the President may hire and fire members of the SCI (Select Committee on Intelligence), and setting a maximum number of SCI members. SCI's function is to authorize release of Reserve funds beyond as set in the regular Budget. This Discussion, if moved to a Proposal and Vote, is intended to prevent "stacking the SCI" with cronies who might do crazy things at the direction of a "rogue President."
Quoting Israel Stevens: "It provides the body with some legitimacy, and helps to keep it above petty politics. Getting elected President means you're going to have enemies/rivals, and not being able to remove Congressmen unless they aren't elected in game is a way to keep SCI out of politics.
It is literally, Country>Party"
Quoting Oblige: "Nothing in here is really required. I am steadfastly opposed to our insane trend of continuously modifying the constitution every five minutes. ... My general opposition to all of these constitutional amendments is that they're written to address single occurrence scenarios. Legislation built around such a principal is almost assuredly bound to have adverse consequences and generally fails to actually prevent the things it was intended to stop."
This is an ongoing discussion.
Speaker Evry also started [Discussion] Congressional Procedural eUS Code Amendments.
I don't know where to start with this. Maybe just a couple quotes, and readers should click through and try to digest this themselves.
Evry: "The point of this whole thing is to essentially (and hopefully) end the semantic-based arguments we've been having lately. Currently, a newer congressman doesn't understand why Congress does things a certain way, and asks why. They're told by the older congress folks that we've always done it this way. The newer congressman doesn't like that answer and attempts to create some sort of argument to the effect of "Well, it's not in the eUS Code/Constitution!". The "Precedent" clause would allow us to move past it, basically citing this as why we continue to do things how we've always done them without the need to legislate every tiny procedural point."
Custer: "fu*k.
such is the evolution of the Constitution and Code.
everything that's not perfectly and exactly clear gets legalese'd to the nittiest detail, till the whole mess is beyond comprehension.
then.. old fu*ks will remember.. we finally throw the whole thing out and replace it with a short version, one which makes sense but is vague in details.. then we begin the process of rewriting every possible "understood and obvious" detail back in..
are we really going down that road again..?
really?"
This, too, is an ongoing discussion.
Congressman don hrleone made an rogue in-game Donate Proposal. It was his intent to commemorate an RL bit of history in his homeland, but as a rogue Proposal it is expected to be summarily voted down.
Additionally,[Discussion] Censure of don hrleone has become a hot topic, and as an ongoing current event is well worth your reading it.
Gnilraps' [Discussion] Smiting of don hrleone addresses the fact that there actually isn't a written rule requiring rogue Proposal makers to be formally censured with a light-hearted solution to how don hrleone might be reprimanded.
More in-game Proposals:
Mutual Protection Pacts
● Approve
President of Indonesia proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
President of Mexico proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
President of Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
President of Brazil proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
● Pending: (they'll be Approved)
President of Croatia proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
President of Albania proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
● Approve
this is a standard order of business
The Week Ahea
The above noted Discussions-- Censure or Smite of don hrleone, Congressional Procedure, and SCI hiring/firing-- are all ongoing discussions which are expected to continue being worth your time as citizens to follow what your Congress is doing with its post-Budget time.
The Legislative Branch and Public Congressional Proceedings are where Congress conducts almost all its business, and are there for you to follow our Discussions and Votes.
George Armstrong Custer
on behalf of Speaker of the House Evry and Deputy Speakers Kortanul and AlexJ1890
Please promote this edition of The Speaker's Word by using this Shout... a lot.
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😛71st Congress, Vol. 4 - This Week in Congress
Welcome to THE SPEAKER'S WOR
😨the official journal of the eUSA Congress.
Dateline: Sunday, November 17 (Day 2189)
Location: 71st US Congress
Editor: George Armstrong "Old Man" Custer
Music: David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
The Word of the Day:
: 1 : Follow up to Last Week's Reports
: 2 : This Week's Congressional Activity
: 3 : The Week Ahead
Editor's Notes: First of all, my apology for getting this weekly edition of the Word out a day late.
And... welcome back to The real Speaker's Word newspaper at its proper home in the eUSA Congress Org.
The past three editions of the Speaker's Word may be found at:
The Speaker's Wor
😛71st Congress, Vol. 3 - This Week in Congress
The Speaker's Wor
😛71st Congress, Vol. 2 - This Week in Congress
The Speaker's Wor
😛71st Congress Begins
Follow-up to Last Week's Congressional Activity Reports
The New Citizen Message thread remains open, mostly focusing on Ajay/RGR's frequent changing of his Party's name and how to accurately reflect this in the automated President's message to new players.
This Week's Congressional Activity
Sign-In 11/12/13: 30 Congressmen signed in; Quorum is set at 16
Increasing the Moving Tax was covered in Discussion, , Proposal and Vote.
Proposal:
WHEREAS, Plato is handing out Moving Tickets like Candy Corn on Halloween and,
WHEREAS, Moving Tickets? and,
WHEREAS, there is suddenly activity on the Moving Ticket market and,
WHEREAS, lots and lots of people don't want to actually USE Moving Tickets and,
WHEREAS, people are considering these things "found money" and,
WHEREAS, Congress likes to find money too and,
WHEREAS, an increase in Moving Ticket Tax might be a good way to take advantage of the sudden boon,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, Congress should raise the Moving Ticket tax up from 1% to (let's go whole hog) 15%.
The in-game VAT & Import Taxes: Moving Tickets Vote actually ran twice, once for the Import Tax and once for the VAT Tax. Both passed without dissent.
Speaker Evry started [Discussion] SCI Related eUS Code Amendments, which seeks to change how the President may hire and fire members of the SCI (Select Committee on Intelligence), and setting a maximum number of SCI members. SCI's function is to authorize release of Reserve funds beyond as set in the regular Budget. This Discussion, if moved to a Proposal and Vote, is intended to prevent "stacking the SCI" with cronies who might do crazy things at the direction of a "rogue President."
Quoting Israel Stevens: "It provides the body with some legitimacy, and helps to keep it above petty politics. Getting elected President means you're going to have enemies/rivals, and not being able to remove Congressmen unless they aren't elected in game is a way to keep SCI out of politics.
It is literally, Country>Party"
Quoting Oblige: "Nothing in here is really required. I am steadfastly opposed to our insane trend of continuously modifying the constitution every five minutes. ... My general opposition to all of these constitutional amendments is that they're written to address single occurrence scenarios. Legislation built around such a principal is almost assuredly bound to have adverse consequences and generally fails to actually prevent the things it was intended to stop."
This is an ongoing discussion.
Speaker Evry also started [Discussion] Congressional Procedural eUS Code Amendments.
I don't know where to start with this. Maybe just a couple quotes, and readers should click through and try to digest this themselves.
Evry: "The point of this whole thing is to essentially (and hopefully) end the semantic-based arguments we've been having lately. Currently, a newer congressman doesn't understand why Congress does things a certain way, and asks why. They're told by the older congress folks that we've always done it this way. The newer congressman doesn't like that answer and attempts to create some sort of argument to the effect of "Well, it's not in the eUS Code/Constitution!". The "Precedent" clause would allow us to move past it, basically citing this as why we continue to do things how we've always done them without the need to legislate every tiny procedural point."
Custer: "fu*k.
such is the evolution of the Constitution and Code.
everything that's not perfectly and exactly clear gets legalese'd to the nittiest detail, till the whole mess is beyond comprehension.
then.. old fu*ks will remember.. we finally throw the whole thing out and replace it with a short version, one which makes sense but is vague in details.. then we begin the process of rewriting every possible "understood and obvious" detail back in..
are we really going down that road again..?
really?"
This, too, is an ongoing discussion.
Congressman don hrleone made an rogue in-game Donate Proposal. It was his intent to commemorate an RL bit of history in his homeland, but as a rogue Proposal it is expected to be summarily voted down.
Additionally,[Discussion] Censure of don hrleone has become a hot topic, and as an ongoing current event is well worth your reading it.
Gnilraps' [Discussion] Smiting of don hrleone addresses the fact that there actually isn't a written rule requiring rogue Proposal makers to be formally censured with a light-hearted solution to how don hrleone might be reprimanded.
More in-game Proposals:
Mutual Protection Pacts
● Approve
😛
President of Indonesia proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
President of Mexico proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
President of Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
President of Brazil proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
● Pending: (they'll be Approved)
President of Croatia proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
President of Albania proposed a mutual protection pact with USA
● Approve
😛Do you agree to transfer 400000 USD from the country accounts to Congressional Budget Office?
this is a standard order of business
The Week Ahea
😛
The above noted Discussions-- Censure or Smite of don hrleone, Congressional Procedure, and SCI hiring/firing-- are all ongoing discussions which are expected to continue being worth your time as citizens to follow what your Congress is doing with its post-Budget time.
The Legislative Branch and Public Congressional Proceedings are where Congress conducts almost all its business, and are there for you to follow our Discussions and Votes.
George Armstrong Custer
on behalf of Speaker of the House Evry and Deputy Speakers Kortanul and AlexJ1890
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The Legislative Branch and Public Congressional Proceedings are where Congress conducts almost all its business, and are there for you to follow our Discussions and Votes.
o7
Thanks for getting this info out to the public.
I do appreciate the effort.
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You got back into the Org!
Quality.
Thanks for the updates. o7
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Excellent update regarding the eAmerican legislature; voted and shouted.
Good to see consistent updates for the people, even if a day late.
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Custer: purely as a matter of curiosity -
Censure generally means a stern verbal rebuke, a verbal upbraiding, delivery of words of chastisement. I'm aware that it means something else on the forum where censure equals loss of some forum privileges. How come it means something different than the normal usage/ how come a good word like "punishment" isn't preferred?
got me, olivermellors. I wondered that when I first encountered the term as used by eUS Congress.
could be that the actual punishment is so weak; it really is stripping the censured Congressman of his right to speak, but there's no way to revoke in-game Proposal voting privileges.
This is why. Congress can't actually expel members, it's mechanically impossible.
so "punishment" would be pretty far from an accurate term..
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This is awesome
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Nice paper logo... I wonder who created it.
big confusing hodge podge of illegible scrawling, with some official looking badge stuck onto it..? looks like someone must've been really high to do that.
Honestly, who keeps letting these people into congress...