Northeast Assembly Thread

[Lambsbread]

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Do we not have protection against cruel and unusual punishments in our constitution? If not then disregard my striking out provisions 3 and 4. Or else those provisions are unnecessary.
 Regardless of what is in the constitution, we should change “criminal” to “suspect” for this bill.

Edit: Wormy is right, all the provisions from 3 to 9 I would think are already in the constitution. And if not, we should pass a constitutional amendment guaranteeing those rights, not a repealable act of the Assmebly. And I see you already changed the wording for "Criminal" so you can disregard that.

Okay. I'll propse provisions 1 and 2 as an amendment to the NE Constitution.

[Napoleon]

I think we should remove section 9.

[Lambsbread]

I think we should remove section 9.

"Okay. I'll propse provisions 1 and 2 as an amendment to the NE Constitution."

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

I'm pretty sure there's already a federal abolition of the Death Penalty.

[Lambsbread]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Well, I suppose you could make a case that this should be passed incase the death penalty ban is turned back to the regions.

[tpfkaw]

Debate is now closed, we shall now vote on this bill (since it hasn't been formally amended or withdrawn...)

[Lambsbread]

*sigh* I guess it's too late to withdraw it.

Just let it fail by vote.

Abstain.

[tpfkaw]

Abstain.

[The Economist]

Nay

[Napoleon]

Nay

Can anyone lead to me the rent laws of this region?

[Sbane]

Nay

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

Can anyone lead to me the rent laws of this region?

I am not sure there are any unless they were passed prior to the Northeast Assembly's inception.


Also, just a heads-up on that sex education bill, Jake:

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You might want to amend Section B of the Bipartisan Safe Sex Education Act in addition to your new bill so the two don't come into conflict.

[Free Palestine]

Abstain

[tpfkaw]

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Sponsor: Rep. Jake Matthews

The question is whether the bill should be considered?

The ayes have it.

Debate shall continue until March 21, 2011, 2:28 PM EST, unless debate is extended or shortened in accordance with the SOAP.

The sponsor, Jake Matthews, has the floor.

[Lambsbread]

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Friends,

We are all here because we share a common goal of creating a better Northeast Region. I personally believe that we as legislators do not deserve higher yearly salaries than the average Joe or Jane who actually work long hours that demand hard physical labor. Our job is to debate mindlessly until we are blue in the face in an attempt to make citizen's lives easier. I believe it is time to offer up a reward to our hard working citizens via the Payback Act.

Thank you.

[tpfkaw]

While I agree with the basic idea of cutting legislative salaries, the administrative costs of redesigning tax returns and creating a new tax deduction would dwarf the savings from cutting said salaries.  I think it would be best just to simply cut legislative salaries.

[Lambsbread]

While I agree with the basic idea of cutting legislative salaries, the administrative costs of redesigning tax returns and creating a new tax deduction would dwarf the savings from cutting said salaries.  I think it would be best just to simply cut legislative salaries.

But then what would we do with the money that we cut from salaries?

[tpfkaw]

While I agree with the basic idea of cutting legislative salaries, the administrative costs of redesigning tax returns and creating a new tax deduction would dwarf the savings from cutting said salaries.  I think it would be best just to simply cut legislative salaries.

But then what would we do with the money that we cut from salaries?

Reduce deficit/increase surplus?

[Lambsbread]

While I agree with the basic idea of cutting legislative salaries, the administrative costs of redesigning tax returns and creating a new tax deduction would dwarf the savings from cutting said salaries.  I think it would be best just to simply cut legislative salaries.

But then what would we do with the money that we cut from salaries?

Reduce deficit/increase surplus?

Alright. I'd like to strike out section 5 and amend section 4 to read:

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The title of the bill is hereby changed to the NE Legislative Salary Cuts Act of 2011

[Lambsbread]

Friends,

Our speaker has left Atlasia. In his absence, we must call upon Governor Ghost_white to hold an election for a new speaker. I'd like to ask anyone who is interested in becoming speaker to say so.

I would like to express my interest in filling the vacated position.

[Sbane]

While I agree with the basic idea of cutting legislative salaries, the administrative costs of redesigning tax returns and creating a new tax deduction would dwarf the savings from cutting said salaries.  I think it would be best just to simply cut legislative salaries.

I agree with our late speaker here.

[Sbane]

Friends,

Our speaker has left Atlasia. In his absence, we must call upon Governor Ghost_white to hold an election for a new speaker. I'd like to ask anyone who is interested in becoming speaker to say so.

I would like to express my interest in filling the vacated position.

I will support you as long as you know what the hell you are doing.

[tpfkaw]

Friends,

Our speaker has left Atlasia. In his absence, we must call upon Governor Ghost_white to hold an election for a new speaker. I'd like to ask anyone who is interested in becoming speaker to say so.

I would like to express my interest in filling the vacated position.

Um, I fully intend to serve out my term, I'm just not running for reelection.

[Lambsbread]

Friends,

Our speaker has left Atlasia. In his absence, we must call upon Governor Ghost_white to hold an election for a new speaker. I'd like to ask anyone who is interested in becoming speaker to say so.

I would like to express my interest in filling the vacated position.

Um, I fully intend to serve out my term, I'm just not running for reelection.