Talk Elections

Could the Senate please vote on the following act:

All homosexual couples will be granted the right to join in a civil union, entailing all the rights of marriage excluding adoption rights.

Vote either aye, noe or you can abstain.

I vote aye.

I encourage my district 2 Senators to vote "aye" on this act, or you just lost a vote ;)

I am considering proposing an amendment that removes the adoption clause.

I am unsure if it would pass with that, that is why I included the clause, I want this to be a stepping stone towards equality.

Yay Harry :)

Nay

Nay

Nay

To Thurmond and Steve:

We need to rally Harry against this.

I officially propose and amendment to change the bill to state:
All homosexual couples will be granted the right to join in a civil union, entailing all the rights of marriage.

With the amendment, I vote yes.
I'll hold off for now on voting without the amendment.

I vote against the proposed amendment.

I vote against the amendment

Nay

I am in favor of the amendment. I encourage the Senate to pass the amendment to the bill, which I will then sign in its entirety.

With amendment: Aye
Without the amendment: Nay

Whilst I believe that a male and fmelae are needed to develope a fully rounded child, I also believe it is better for a child to at least have a family then none at all, and therefore support the right of all mentally sound and caring people to adopt.

Some would argue that  homosexuals aren't mentally sound, but I can assure you, we are.

YEA on the amendement.
I will vote on the bill when the amendement either fails or passes.

Well, seeing as how this Bill will not pass without the amendment I vote aye on the amendment.

Aye on the amendment.

Like Sen. Texasgurl I will wait until the amendment has either failed or passed to vote on the bill itself.

we have five votes fr the amendment, Michael Z, I am unsure as to whther you have voted for the amendment or not. If you have, the amendment has pssed.

He has -

I'm an idiot.

The amendment, and therefore the bill, is passed I believe.

Needs a two thirds majority doesn't it? That is 7 votes.

No, it's not a constitutional amendment, just an amendment to a bill.

No, I mean the actual bill itself.

Bills only need a majority to pass, only constitutional amendments need 2/3.

And to overturn your vetoes heh.

Votes for the Amendment-
Aye- Harry, Hughento, JFK, Michael Z, Texasgurl24 (5)
Nay- Boss Tweed, StatesRights, StevenNick (3)

If we can get Beet or ShapeShifter to vote Aye, the Amendment passes.

so now we need to vote on the amended bill. no?

Yes on the amendment.

NOW, you do, yes. Since Beet voted yes on the amendment. The amendment has passed, and the amended bill should now be voted on.

I vote for the amended bill, Gustaf see UAC forums and please get AIM working :P

It appears that no more Senators will vote on this...can we consider it passed since it has a majority of those who have voted so far?

YES on the amended bill.

Should we consider this passed, so that I can sign it? That's what I was asking. It has a majority of those voting, but not of the total membership. But if we are going to go by the rule that once a week has passed, there is no more voting in the Senate, then it should be considered passed with a majority vote of those who have voted.

Yes on the amended bill.

I think it shopuld be signable, but i'm not sureDan knows, hopefully :)

Ok, then I hereby sign this bill into law.

Eric Benjamin Nyman

aka President Nym90

Congrats ;D

*gets on bended knee*

ILV, will you civilly unite with me?

*produces the big kahuna of rings*

Errr...

*tries to put it politely*

I'm sorry, Hugh, but I'm not that way.  I've had a girlfriend for 11-1/2 months before, you know!

I'll take the ring though!

*snatches ring*

Wow, a girlfriend at age 13? We should have all been so lucky.

BTW, Hugh, are you going to vote on the anti-drug testing act??

Correction: Ages 11-12 8)

*COUGH*lying*COUGH*

I could give you her AIM screenname, but I don't think she'd want me to give out her screenname to a random Brit from a political forum :P

That's not only disturbing, it's disgusting.