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Bill: Federal Congress Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hosian Civic Union
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill asks for an amendement to the Constitution. It will require two-thirds of the legislature to vote in favor. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 4280
Description[?]:
| This act will do a number of things: - Restore the historical name of the legislature. - Make it so that to receive funding a party must form an official Caucus in the Federal Congress. - Government funding is apportioned according to the numbers of legislators a caucus has. - Rename legislators to 'Congressmen' and 'Congresswomen' or 'Congresspeople' to be abbreviated as CP. - Caucuses: A caucus must have at least 3% of the Assembly [currently 15 MAs] to be recognised as an official Caucus. - Parties with less than 3% of the legislature can either form a caucus with another party or will sit in the legislature as independents but will therefore of course receive less funding. - Make provision for a potential upper house [Senate] in the future. OOC: This system is based closely on the UK's Short Money and France's Parliamentary Group system. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The official title of the legislative assembly.
Old value:: Federal Assembly
Current: Congreso Nacional de la República de Gaduridos (National Congress of the Republic of Gaduridos)
Proposed: Federal Congress
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:55:05, September 25, 2017 CET | From | Gaduridos Conservative Party | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | We will not support this bill. It is a significant and unecersarry change and it also permits smaller parties to have less money than larger ones, despite the quality of said party and its ideas. |
| Date | 08:03:55, September 26, 2017 CET | From | Hosian Civic Union | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | OOC: Bigger parties need more money as they have more staff to pay etc. This is how it works in every country in the world. |
| Date | 10:44:39, September 26, 2017 CET | From | Hosian Civic Union | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | Before we send this to vote we would like to know who would support. |
| Date | 00:32:08, September 27, 2017 CET | From | Conservative Renew | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | We support all except changing to congressperson instead of AM. Also we are very interested in the idea of a upper chamber |
| Date | 08:56:23, September 27, 2017 CET | From | Hosian Civic Union | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | If the name of the chamber was changed AMs would no longer make sense as there would be no Assembly for them to be Members of. |
| Date | 19:23:39, September 28, 2017 CET | From | Hosian Civic Union | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | Who would vote against this in its current form? |
| Date | 07:19:32, September 29, 2017 CET | From | Conservative Renew | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | OCC: parliament is more of s historic name than federal Congress |
| Date | 08:19:43, September 29, 2017 CET | From | Hosian Civic Union | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | OOC: Was it ever called Parliament though? Plus Congress better suits our culture I think. |
| Date | 20:37:59, September 29, 2017 CET | From | Hosian Civic Union | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | Sending to vote. |
| Date | 21:20:13, September 29, 2017 CET | From | Conservative Renew | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | OCC: when I first joined it was parliament and was banned that for quite a while after |
| Date | 05:17:04, September 30, 2017 CET | From | Conservative Renew | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | *named |
| Date | 17:44:40, September 30, 2017 CET | From | Hosian Civic Union | To | Debating the Federal Congress Act |
| Message | This will need 334 seats on board to pass. We call on the Conservatives to be pragmatic and support this timely update of our system. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 223 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 139 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 138 |
| Random fact: "Jezvraljogadsrlji" means "Social" in the Jelbic languages. |
| Random quote: "The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a 'safe' code of conduct, one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone, for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you." - Harry Browne |