People's House Labor Conference (8th Congress Members Sign-in)

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Shamelessly ripping this off Yankee.
Since all the leadership posts in this are vacant, I am assuming control as Dean-elect of the House of the position of Labor House Conference Chair on an interim basis.

Minority Conference Positions:
Declarations:
Deputy Speaker (selected by Speaker Yankee): Peebs
Minority/Congressional Leader: Peebs
Minority/Congressional Whip: OneJ_
Conference Chair: 1184AZ
Policy Chair: simossad

Due note, the Speaker has to be elected by the whole House upon its swearing in, through the process designated in the rules of the House, pending amendment.

First off Members of the House Conference for the 5th Congress, please sign-in (OneJ_, simossad, and AZ, you cannot vote on legislation or introduce bills until you swear in on March 3rd, this is only for Conference purposes):
Peebs
simossad
1184AZ
OneJ_

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Now where is that damn attorney's number?

[Representative simossad]

X Simossad

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Now where is that damn attorney's number?

12614

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Fantastic work, Peebs. For reference:

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[Pragmatic Conservative]

X1184AZ

[OneJ]

[X] OneJ_

[OneJ]

I would like to declare my candidacy for Minority Whip.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Keep in mind, I mentioned that the nomination period would open February 27.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Shamelessly ripping off Yankee again.
Deputy Speaker of course has to help administer the House, put bills on the floor and run the votes and such.
Minority leader is basically the floor leader for the Party Conference. I suppose she could introduce bills and such that the conference supports.
Minority Whip, is suppose to scour for votes on such legislation.
Conference chair has duties established in the Labor bylaws, including administering leadership elections for the Conference.
And Policy Chair I guess can develop legislation for the conference to pursue.

[Representative simossad]

I'd like to declare my candidacy for Policy Chair.

[Blair]

To be a bore wouldn't it be incorrect for us to have a deputy speaker (as we're not in the majority)

We could see that role merged in with Minority Leader to create the position of Congressional Leader (which gives you a nice comfy office at Labor HQ as a member of the LNC)

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

To be a bore wouldn't it be incorrect for us to have a deputy speaker (as we're not in the majority)

We could see that role merged in with Minority Leader to create the position of Congressional Leader (which gives you a nice comfy office at Labor HQ as a member of the LNC)

I assumed that, but Yankee already offered me the position, so whatever.

[Blair]

To be a bore wouldn't it be incorrect for us to have a deputy speaker (as we're not in the majority)

We could see that role merged in with Minority Leader to create the position of Congressional Leader (which gives you a nice comfy office at Labor HQ as a member of the LNC)

I assumed that, but Yankee already offered me the position, so whatever.

oh cool, the roles can be merged then

[Pragmatic Conservative]

I will run for Conference Chair.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Out of curiosity (and because, as Deputy Chair, it's sort of my job to ask), how do these positions relate to the new office of Congressional Leader established in the Labor Party bylaws? After reading Peebs' second post, it sounds like y'alls plan is for the "Conference Chair" to do double duty as the Congressional Leader, but I had always envisioned the latter role operating as the Minority Leader.

For reference:

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[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

In compliance with the rules, I hereby (officially) open the nominations.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

...Fair enough.
I'm assuming we've all already declared.

48 hours!

Congressional Leader
[ ] Peebs (NC)

Congressional Whip
[ ] OneJ_ (MS)

Conference Chair
[ ] 1184AZ (WA)

Policy Chair
[ ] simossad (MN)

[Representative simossad]

Congressional Leader
[ X ] Peebs (NC)

Congressional Whip
[ X ] OneJ_ (MS)

Conference Chair
[ X ] 1184AZ (WA)

Policy Chair
[ X ] simossad (MN)

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Congressional Leader
[X] Peebs (NC)

Congressional Whip
[X] OneJ_ (MS)

Conference Chair
[X] 1184AZ (WA)

Policy Chair
[X] simossad (MN)

[OneJ]

Congressional Leader
[X] Peebs (NC)

Congressional Whip
[X] OneJ_ (MS)

Conference Chair
[X] 1184AZ (WA)

Policy Chair
[X] simossad (MN)

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

That was easy.
With 3 of the 4 Laborite Reps voting,
Peebs has been elected Congressional Leader,
OneJ_ has been elected Congressional Whip,
1184AZ has been elected Conference Chair, and
simossad has been elected Policy Chair.
AZ can still vote, but his vote won't change the outcome.

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Congressional Leader
[X ] Peebs (NC)

Congressional Whip
[X ] OneJ_ (MS)

Conference Chair
[ X] 1184AZ (WA)

Policy Chair
[ X] simossad (MN)

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Bumping this for the 6th Congress. You know the roles.

Declarations:
Congressional Leader: Peebs (inc.)
Congressional Whip: OneJ_ (inc.)
Conference Chair: Clyde1998
Policy Chair: simossad (inc.)

Since we forgot to replace AZ as Conference Chair, I will serve as acting conference chair.

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

I'll run for re-elex as leader.