SENATE BILL: Equal Rights Amendment (Sent to the Regions)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Scott, you of course have 24 hours to advocate for this. I trust that won't be a problem, unlike a certain other Senator whose display name begins with the same letter.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Scott, you of course have 24 hours to advocate for this. I trust that won't be a problem, unlike a certain other Senator whose display name begins with the same letter.

Screw you, Yankee.

Unless you were talking about Seatown....in which case I say screw you for insulting a constituent of mine.

The fact that you don't know its not you, suggest that it might as well have been based on your attentiveness.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

By a vote of 2-1, the Committee recommends that the ERA be passed in its current form.

By a vote of 2-1, the Committee discourages amending Senator TJ's revisions to the legislation.

And finally, by a vote of 2-1, the Committee discourages amending Senator Clarence's revisions to the legislation.

Also, when do we vote on Clarence's amendment?

Whenever he actually introduces one. Just posting a text is not enough to be considered as an actual amendment. Why? Because their have been dozens of different texts of various things posted here in this thread. Unless it is labled "Amendment Proposed/Offered/Introduced/Filed" or he says "I offer this amendment" it is just another text that is meant to spur the debate along. I didn't see him do this when he posted the text being referred to as "Clarence's Amendment". The only appearence of the word amendment that I saw is the same that is present in the underlying text signifying that it is being offered to amend the constitution. So that doesn't count.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Status: A vote is now open on the above amendment, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

It think that such an amendment would result in the underlying Constitutional Amendment itself being rendered self-defeating in terms of its ultimate goals. So I will vote Nay.

Perhaps a better wording would have achieved the goal of the amendment author, but I don't know what that would be and none such was arrived at in the deliberations.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Amendment 50:33 by TJ in Cleve:

Aye (2): Clarence and TJ in Cleve
Nay (6): AndrewCT, Ben, NC Yankee, Redalgo, sbane and Scott
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Seatown

The Amendment having received enough votes to fail, is not adopted.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Is Clarence going to introduce his text as an amendment?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I figure it is best to separate my amendments....

Amendment 1

No organization shall be required to alter its membership policies as a consequence of this amendment

I am sorry Clarence, but there is no indication of how this would be incorporated into the text. Therefore I have to flag this under Article 4, Section 2, Clause 1 of the OSPR. Could you please revise the text?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Status: A vote is now open on the above amendment, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Nay


Vote on the Amendment 50:34 by Clarence :

Aye (2): Clarence and TJ in Cleve
Nay (6): AndrewTX, Ben, NC Yankee, Redalgo, Scott and Seatown
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): sbane

The amendment has failed. Final vote Time?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senators, this Constitutional Amendment is now at Final Vote, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE


I guess I would rather do right then be on the right here. The Regions can make the final say here.


This has enough votes to pass, Senators have 24 hours to change their votes.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Senate Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment:

Aye (7): AndrewTX, Ben, NC Yankee, Redgalo, sbane, Scott, and Seatown
Nay (2): Clarence and TJ in Cleve
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

The Amendment has achieved the 2/3rds vote necessary for passage and is forwarded to the Regions for ratification.

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