World War II Commemoration Act (Law'd)

[minionofmidas]

World War II Commemoration Act

1. V-E Day, short for Victory in Europe Day, shall be made a national holiday.

1a. V-E Day shall be observed on the eighth day of the fifth month of the Gregorian calender year.

1b. Should V-E Day occur on a Saturday or Sunday, it shall be observed on the following Monday.

2. V-J Day, short for Victory over Japan Day, shall be made a national holiday.

2a. V-J Day shall be observed on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Gregorian calender year.

2b. Should V-J Day occur on a Saturday or Sunday, it shall be observed on the following Monday.


Sponsor: PiT

[HappyWarrior]

I plan to vote aye.

[DownWithTheLeft]

The more often the government is closed, the less harm they can do.  I plan to support this measure

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I would like to make an amendment;

3. F.L. 13-1 (the "Needless Celebrations Removal Act") and F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") are hereby repealed.

[Associate Justice PiT]

I would like to make an amendment;

3. F.L. 13-1 (the "Needless Celebrations Removal Act") and F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") are hereby repealed.

     I accept it as friendly (if I can do that). The idea behind those bills was to move away from American holidays, though the last election proved that ~60% of Atlasians view Atlasia as a replacement of the United States.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

This is a good piece of legislation, and I urge all Senators to vote aye.

[Sensei]

i could go for this

[minionofmidas]

I would like to make an amendment;

3. F.L. 13-1 (the "Needless Celebrations Removal Act") and F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") are hereby repealed.

     I accept it as friendly (if I can do that).

Al didn't offer it as friendly.

And if he had, I would object to it being accepted as friendly. I'm ready to defend F.L.13-1. I've no problem with reintroducing MLK.

[Associate Justice PiT]

I would like to make an amendment;

3. F.L. 13-1 (the "Needless Celebrations Removal Act") and F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") are hereby repealed.

     I accept it as friendly (if I can do that).

Al didn't offer it as friendly.

And if he had, I would object to it being accepted as friendly. I'm ready to defend F.L.13-1. I've no problem with reintroducing MLK.

     I was afraid that would be the case, though I didn't know for sure.

[minionofmidas]

I would like to make an amendment;

3. F.L. 13-1 (the "Needless Celebrations Removal Act") and F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") are hereby repealed.

     I accept it as friendly (if I can do that).

Al didn't offer it as friendly.

And if he had, I would object to it being accepted as friendly. I'm ready to defend F.L.13-1. I've no problem with reintroducing MLK.

     I was afraid that would be the case, though I didn't know for sure.

The "friendly" problem could have been dealt with easily - just get him to precisize (sp?) that it's friendly, but as I said, it would get objected to anyhow so it doesn't matter.

So... the vote on Al's amendment opens tomorrow (or possibly late tonight, my time). For after that I'm introducing an amendment:
Depending on how the vote goes, either:

To include another section "F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") is hereby repealed", or to amend Al's new section to read just that.

Also, I have a friendly amendment NOW to remove those silly a's and b's and just have two sections 1 and 2.

[Associate Justice PiT]

I would like to make an amendment;

3. F.L. 13-1 (the "Needless Celebrations Removal Act") and F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") are hereby repealed.

     I accept it as friendly (if I can do that).

Al didn't offer it as friendly.

And if he had, I would object to it being accepted as friendly. I'm ready to defend F.L.13-1. I've no problem with reintroducing MLK.

     I was afraid that would be the case, though I didn't know for sure.

The "friendly" problem could have been dealt with easily - just get him to precisize (sp?) that it's friendly, but as I said, it would get objected to anyhow so it doesn't matter.

So... the vote on Al's amendment opens tomorrow (or possibly late tonight, my time). For after that I'm introducing an amendment:
Depending on how the vote goes, either:

To include another section "F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") is hereby repealed", or to amend Al's new section to read just that.

Also, I have a friendly amendment NOW to remove those silly a's and b's and just have two sections 1 and 2.

     In that case, I'll accept it as friendly. I wasn't really sure how to go about numbering it.

[minionofmidas]

Also, I have a friendly amendment NOW to remove those silly a's and b's and just have two sections 1 and 2.

     In that case, I'll accept it as friendly. I wasn't really sure how to go about numbering it.

Senators have 24 hours to object.

[minionofmidas]

Also, I have a friendly amendment NOW to remove those silly a's and b's and just have two sections 1 and 2.

     In that case, I'll accept it as friendly. I wasn't really sure how to go about numbering it.

Senators have 24 hours to object.

The friendly amendment has passed.

I would like to make an amendment;

3. F.L. 13-1 (the "Needless Celebrations Removal Act") and F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") are hereby repealed.

The vote is on the amendment.

Nay.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Aye. The more celebrations the better.

[minionofmidas]

     Aye. The more celebrations the better.

Well in that case...

maybe I should introduce the following amendment:

"Every day not currently a federal holiday is declared Atlasians Are Teh Awesome Day.

Atlasians Are Teh Awesome Day is to be a federal, school, and bank holiday."

[DownWithTheLeft]

Aye

[Torie]

Nay

[minionofmidas]

Vote count

Aye 2 (PiT, Dwtl)
Nay 2 (Lewis, Torie)

slow progress here.

[HappyWarrior]

Nay

[Sensei]

no

[Јas]

Abstain

[minionofmidas]

Vote count

Aye 2 (PiT, Dwtl)
Nay 4 (Lewis, Torie, Happy, Sensei)
abstain (voted) 1 (Jas)
yet to vote 2 (Al, Andrew)
vacant 1

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Nay

[minionofmidas]

Nay

The amendment has failed (wtf Al? This was your own amendment.)

The vote is on the amendment:

To include another section "F.L. 12-11 (the "Abolition of Martin Luther King Day Act") is hereby repealed".

Please vote aye, nay or abstain.

Aye.

[Јas]

Aye