Senate Protest and Analysis Thread

[Filuwaúrdjan]

On the request of a concerned constituent:

Deregistration Bill

Whereas,
1. Federal Statutes and the Constitution are seemingly silent on the matter of "deregistration".
2. To date the ability to deregister has apparently been at the whim of the Executive, with Presidents apparently changing its status by Executive Order.

The Senate resolves that,
1. A right to deregister, specifically, the right to have oneself removed from the voter rolls, is hereby granted to all citizens of Atlasia.
2. Any citizen who has deregistered shall no longer be able to vote in any federal election or vote.
3. Should a citizen who has deregistered, re-register with Atlasia within sixty days of their deregistration, then they remain bound by the requirements of Article V, Section 2, Clause 7 as amended by the Seventh Amendment.
4. The Department of Forum Affairs may make regulations as necessary to specify how requests for deregistration should be made.
5. Previous deregistration requests that have been honored should remain so, and those that have not been honored should remain so.
6. All Executive Orders issued in contradiction of this Law in the past or future are void.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Isn't there supposed to be a confirmation thread for Ebowed?

He's still a Senator isn't he?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The State Department backs what Senator Bell just said.

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Why does the Senate hate Local Government?

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Nothing on the people in Lebanon who have nothing to do with Hizbollah being killed?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I don't think that offering to sell anyone arms that the moment would be an especially good signal for us to send out... and the Lebanese government is in no position to attack Hizbollah.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Could someone write a bill that stops the automatic purging of voters from the electoral roll?

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Could someone introduce a bill returning full funding to the Appalachian Regional Commision?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

My views on the Budget are, I think, quite clear to all these days.

And I'd like to say "sorry" again...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It would seem that this "immediately re-introduce my dead pet-bill once it's been killed" thing has become quite a trend.

Yay.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I might do something similar with some of the bills I've introduced.

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Hear, hear

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Any way of moving the Jury Reform bill up the glut?

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My intention is that the Financial Services Regulation Bill is to be fairly open-ended. This is a debate that we ought to have.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Context?

Have you been watching the news recently?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I recently noticed that the wording of the act that bans affirmative action is, frankly, dangerous. Thus...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I think it would have been better if HW had just tried to repeal the most obviously obnoxious features of Taft-Hartley rather than the whole thing; I don't think that we're going to get a bill passed that includes the full legalisation of the closed shop.

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I don't see why tariffs are better than subsidy...

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I beg the PPT to strike down this frivolity.

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Crazy fetishists.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I am opposed to the bill in question. In real life the legislature does not imprison people after a quick vote. I'm not opposed to making trolling a criminal offense here, but this goes too far.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I can see that this Senate is going to be a bundle of laughs.

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The point of the legislation in question isn't to make money for fantasyland, but to limit the damage caused by fantasyland's one-sided trade policies to areas traditionally dependent on the industries in question.

Probably the best thing to do would be to repeal all the existingde facto subsidies for other countries industries "free trade" acts and replace them with, you know, actual free trade agreements, but I don't think that's likely here.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'd like to protest the complete inability of this Senate to do things. You have a long to-do list, including possibly calling a Constitutional Convention, reshaping the government. Let's see some discussions and voting here.

Senators would much rather partake of the well-known pleasures of this city's red light district, following, as they do, in the fine example of that greatest of Senators, Naso.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A better idea would be to allow parties to regulate their own membership.