1026 - The Freedom to Drink Act

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Seriously? I wrote this damn bill forever ago as a Senator, and now I will (hopefully) finally be invloved in the House vote?

It is sad that regularly updated noticeboards became a lost science after the reset (well even before that at times). It does so much to ensure bill resolution and certainly to avoid both bills and amendments to bills being lost.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

16 and 17?  Allowing minors to drink alcohol is an extremely scary notion. I prefer 21 to be the age, as it has been since the 1984 bill did with the highway standards. But this needs to be a regional thing, and I support allowing the regions to choose between 18 and 21, with 21 being the standard. 

You make it sound as if I'm suggesting a complimentary bar in every elementary school.

Devil rum shall indeed destroy A-murica!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I've always thought that a uniform age of 18 works well; in my own experience you have a year or so drinking in secret, and then by the time you're 18 you actually become more responsible and start going to pubs/having it with meals etc (I feel like I have no right to talk about licensing ages since I'm from the binge drinking capital of the World, combined with being a student)

Anyway what I argued for in the Senate many moons ago was for a federal minimum of 18, with allowances for raising the age to 21 if regions/states wished to (but wouldn't because 21 is a stupidly high age)

Really?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I wished my days lasted that long.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So does this go to the Senate now, or to the President?

Senate now. It was sponsored by a Representative.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

And we can all drink to that!