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Bill: 2097 Defence Review
Details
Submitted by[?]: Covenanters (IA)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 2097
Description[?]:
| DEFENCE VISION FOR THE 22ND CENTURY Defending the Commonwealth and its interests. Strengthening international peace and security. A force for good in the world. We achieve this aim by working together on our core task to produce battlewinning forces: • fit for the challenge of today; • ready for the tasks of tomorrow; • capable of building for the future. This will be achieved by diverting funds from the expensive space agency, which will become a supervisionary body to regulate private space exploration. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards space exploration.
Old value:: The government shall fully fund a state-owned space agency which controls all national space-related activity.
Current: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Proposed: The government shall operate a space agency that contracts with and oversees private space-exploration companies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:13:25, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the 2097 Defence Review |
| Message | The proposals aren't really there to do this. I presume the SofS for Defence has access to increase the military budget and spends more on training and procurement for our conventional forces, so a yes vote here should be seen as a demand for him to do so. |
| Date | 00:31:44, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the 2097 Defence Review |
| Message | This is wide open to debate, by the way, as to what proposals can be used to strengthen our conventional armed forces and the description as well. |
| Date | 02:26:56, August 16, 2005 CET | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the 2097 Defence Review |
| Message | i agree with the bill, but not the destination of the diverted funds. still, this is something that i have pushed for many times. i will vote yes, but do not expect my support when it comes to giving the money to the military. i would much rather educate our children than kill someone else's |
| Date | 05:48:46, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the 2097 Defence Review |
| Message | I'll support this, but with the large space agency budget being so dramatically reduced, there probably is enough for both. |
| Date | 09:33:07, August 16, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the 2097 Defence Review |
| Message | 'i will vote yes, but do not expect my support when it comes to giving the money to the military'. Well that's the last thing I would expect to hear from the Defence Secretary! |
| Date | 14:56:39, August 17, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the 2097 Defence Review |
| Message | We vote yes, but not for military reasons(although space-based weapons WOULD be cool). We have always been a party devoted to the advancement of science, ever since our ancestors. Our plan had always been to have there be a space agency fully controled by the state for a few decades, and THEN to turn it over to the private companies. That way, the government could get the agency STARTED, and then the private companies could have a base from which to advance. Seeing how the Space Agency has already done that, we believe it has served it's purpose. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 422 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 193 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 77 |
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| Random quote: "A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics." - Sam Himmell |