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Bill: COM Foreign Policy Cooperative Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM)
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: February 2564
Description[?]:
| We hope this cooperative reform will allow parties to compromise that could not on the INF sponsored Foreign Policy Reform bill of October 2562. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign embassies.
Old value:: Any other country may establish an embassy on national soil.
Current: Foreign countries may establish an embassy after obtaining approval from the Foreign Office.
Proposed: Foreign countries may establish an embassy after obtaining approval from the Foreign Office.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning immigration.
Old value:: Quotas are based on individual applicant's qualifications.
Current: Quotas are based on individual applicant's qualifications.
Proposed: Everyone is allowed to reside permanently in this nation.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards giving aid to foreign countries.
Old value:: The government only gives aid for disaster relief in foreign countries.
Current: The government gives moderate aid to countries in need.
Proposed: The government supplies "tied" aid to poorer nations in return for trading rights.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The national refugee policy.
Old value:: All refugees are welcome but no financial aid is given to them.
Current: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Proposed: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:30:28, April 18, 2008 CET | From | United Socialist Peoples Party | To | Debating the COM Foreign Policy Cooperative Reform |
| Message | The USPP is willing to support this legislation, as articles 1-3 meet our approval. However it is our belief that refugees should not be limited by whether or not they are the victim of "extreme circumstance." Providing all refugess with aid is avidly promoted by the USPP. |
| Date | 21:27:40, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Telamon Minarchist Party | To | Debating the COM Foreign Policy Cooperative Reform |
| Message | We support the third article; government policy concerning immigration. But being opposed to the other three articles to one degree or another means we will vote against this bill as currently stands. Lenny Nozick Answers All Of His Own Fan Mail, TACP |
| Date | 22:38:17, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Rightful Radical Party | To | Debating the COM Foreign Policy Cooperative Reform |
| Message | Article II is unacceptable, thou all others are very wise. We will vote against this bill if it stands together with article II. It would be a pity. Vojislav Krkljus Chairman of the RRP |
| Date | 22:53:08, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the COM Foreign Policy Cooperative Reform |
| Message | The DCD has supported article III regarding foreign aid and article IV regarding the national refugee policy as they stand, but we supported these policies half heartedly as inclusions to bills which we favored overall. Our party is particularly lenient on the issue of providing foreign aid, as we believe both the current and proposed policies are suitable. However, we adamantly support article IV as proposed by the COM party, as this is the choice policy of our party. We do not believe Telamon has the capacity to welcome flocks of international vagabonds from anywhere for any reason, but we should feel obligated to help those who are victims of extreme circumstances. We also support Article I regarding foreign embassies, because although we are an internationalist party, we do not believe any country we do not permit to do so should be establishing embassies in our country. We prefer Article II regarding immigration as it stands, but the change in policy is not such an outrage that it overrides our support for articles I and IV. We will support this bill. James Lott Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
| Date | 23:15:20, April 18, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Ordo Malleus (COM) | To | Debating the COM Foreign Policy Cooperative Reform |
| Message | Oftentimes, and especially when compromising, we must swallow medicine we don't like the taste of but do not hate. We do this to accomplish a result that we may otherwise be unable to achieve. We believe that no party will be completely satisfied with this bill but that most parties will be willing to adopt this bill to make some gains in areas they care about. We do not favor everything in this bill but have included the provisions to give each side something it has asked for. -Thorden Raxney COM Party Leader |
| Date | 00:44:26, April 19, 2008 CET | From | Radical Party | To | Debating the COM Foreign Policy Cooperative Reform |
| Message | Here, here. We applaud Article III and the COM's true devotion to harmony and compromise. This has my personal endorsement. Natalya Petrovskaya-Guillaume President of the Republic of Telamon |
| Date | 17:50:21, April 19, 2008 CET | From | Rightful Radical Party | To | Debating the COM Foreign Policy Cooperative Reform |
| Message | The article II stands as it is, so we vote against. Vojislav Krkljus Chairman of the RRP |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 305 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 130 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 66 |
| Random fact: Players are expected to behave in a courteous, co-operative manner and make a reasonable effort to act with the consent of all players involved, even where the rules do not make consent strictly necessary. In particular, players have a responsibility to take reasonable care that other players are not misinformed either about the role-play or the Game Rules. |
| Random quote: "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) |