What have I been doing in congress?

Day 1,167, 21:36 • Published in USA USA • by Michael Porter


What have I been doing?

Like any reasonable person starting new I first asked a question. The answer I received was good which helped initiate discussion that led to this post which was part of a new board called Congressional Orientation. With the loss of the old forums this will be a helpful tool to educate new congressmen every month and disseminate expectations to incoming Senators.

Next thing I did was ask another question. This created meaningful discussion for incoming congressmen to view and highlighted some of the social expectations that a congressional environment has.

Then I noticed Speaker of the House nominations ongoing with little to no discussion. This led me to create this thread to address the problem. One of the nominees Jasper Signa recognized my concern and created this thread which was an interesting experience. The three main nominnes discussed their philosophy and objectives a little. I felt this increased the experience of electing a Speaker and increased the standards required a little.

I have been active in the Private Congressional sections also. The only other publicly viewable duscussion I can link you to is a proposal from Athanaric to return to two month SoH terms. I feel SoH should have 2 terms and I refuted every congressman who posted in this response. I recommend reading the following two posts also since they are fairly good.



What have I voted on?

Speaker Of The House
I voted for Jasper Signa, my reasoning can be found here.

Routine MPP Votes
Japan - voted yes
China - voted yes
Canada - voted yes
Phillipines. - voted yes
Australia - voted yes
Poland - voted yes

CBO Money Transfers
http://www.erepublik.com/en/USA/law/66356
http://www.erepublik.com/en/USA/law/66435
http://www.erepublik.com/en/USA/law/66524
Voted yes to all

New Citizens Message
http://www.erepublik.com/en/USA/law/66525

Only in game vote of interest
Spanish MPP

I am not going to go into the full extent of what is going on but I did hold my vote until the President gave his advice to congress. I do not view it as the position of congress to dictate foreign policy. We are granted the ability to disagree with the Executive Branch but we are never as informed as the POTUS or his main advisors. Haliman advised congress to vote against the MPP due to simultaneous natural enemy declarations between Spain and Brazil. Voting against the Spanish MPP was a diplomatic statement in support of our formal alliance of PANAM. Brazil is a founding member of PANAM with us and we have commtted ourselves to them.

The shifting of eRepublik from a bipolar to a multipolar and a slow drifting back to a bipolar world has more back stories than I know so I chose to defer to the POTUS on this.

If you made it this far I thank you for reading.