Department of Housing and Urban Development Reduction Bill

[MasterJedi]

I support Jake's amendment do this bill.

[MasterJedi]

I support Jake's amendment do this bill.

And what about my amendment?  Do you think we should keep the OPIH, or have you not seen it yet?

For some reason I missed your amendment, we could do both now you know as well, put a 2 in front of it and write it out so we could do both.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

This amendment has passed.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

This amendment has passed.

[MasterJedi]

And since that amendment has passed CheeseWhiz has asked for a new amendment to change something on the old. I hereby open up the vote on this bill, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

The following shall be changed on the Bill:

2. The Office of Public and Indian Housing is hereby eliminated.
3. The words "Office of Public and Indian Housing" shall be striken from all bills.
4. Any section of any bill that pertains to the Office of Public and Indian Housing shall be repealed.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

One more vote for this amendment to pass........

[MasterJedi]

CheeseWhiz, if this amendment fails I'll be voting against this.   But then re-introduce it with that amendment and I'll vote for it.

[MasterJedi]

We're not voting yet, I'm just giving you both versions so you can debate then.

Bill as it stands now:

1. The funding under Personell and Administration for the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be cut by 10%.
2. The Office of Public and Indian Housing is hereby eliminated.
3. The words "Office of Public and Indian Housing" shall be striken from all bills.
4. Any section of any bill that pertains to the Office of Public and Indian Housing shall be repealed.


Bill after Peter's amendments:

1. The funding under Personnel and Administration for the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be cut by 10%.
2. The Office of Public and Indian Housing is hereby eliminated.
3. Any responsibility or duty, imposed by statute, presently exercised by the Office of Public and Indian Housing will no longer be honored by the federal government.
4. Any section of enacted legislation that pertains to the Office of Public and Indian Housing shall be repealed.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

This amendment has passed.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

With 5 Ayes, 2 Nays and 1 Abstenation this amendment has passed. I hereby present it to the President for his signiture.

[MasterJedi]

There's not enough votes to override the veto so I'm not going to try. (And for some reason I read am and not pm for the 24 hours)

[MasterJedi]

I would also like to protest the actions of PPT MasterJedi. According to the OSPR Article V Section 3 the sponsor of this bill has 72 hours to decide whether he wants the Senate to vote again on overidding the Presidents veto. Your actions in unanimously declaring that their shall not be a veto overide vote is illegal according to the OSPR. The final decision rests in the current sponsor of the bill, ie Senator CheeseWhiz, and he has to publically state whether or not he wants their to be a veto overide vote. I would hope that the PPT in any future instance of such a situation occuring would use his powers in the way that the OSPR subscribes.

I just said that the bill doesn't have enough votes for a veto override so I won't go for it. I didn't say the sponsor can't.

[MasterJedi]

Yes, I would like to have an veto override vote.

I hereby open up the vote on the Veto override for this bill. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[MasterJedi]

applause!

Big Government shall conquer

It's still 3-1 on the veto override.

[MasterJedi]

Abstain
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This veto override has enough votes to fail, Senators now have 24 hours to change their votes.

[MasterJedi]

With 3 Ayes, 5 Nays and 1 Abstenation this veto override has failed.