The Imperial Dominion of the South's Legislature

[Mr. Taft Republican]

Hey! Unanimous! Awaiting Emperor's signature.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     On the 2011 Emergency Tornado Relocation Act: by the powers vested in me as Emperor of this region, I thus sign it into law.

     Be it resolved, X Emperor PiT

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I don't think we should move on to another bill now since flood legislation may become necessary in the near future. Briefly discussing an issue raised by Darth Jbrase, he suggested that we issue a request to the Senate to be granted status as an autonomous region. Thoughts on the matter?

[Dancing with Myself]

     I don't think we should move on to another bill now since flood legislation may become necessary in the near future. Briefly discussing an issue raised by Darth Jbrase, he suggested that we issue a request to the Senate to be granted status as an autonomous region. Thoughts on the matter?

What is an Autonomous Country

[Mr. Taft Republican]

I support petitioning the Senate, though our chance of success must be rather dubious .

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I don't think we should move on to another bill now since flood legislation may become necessary in the near future. Briefly discussing an issue raised by Darth Jbrase, he suggested that we issue a request to the Senate to be granted status as an autonomous region. Thoughts on the matter?

What is an Autonomous Country

     An autonomous region is one that is accorded greater control over its own affairs while still being a subnational entity.

I support petitioning the Senate, though our chance of success must be rather dubious .

     My thoughts exactly.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I support near complete automony! I will indeed support any legislation that includes this.

[Yelnoc]

     I don't think we should move on to another bill now since flood legislation may become necessary in the near future. Briefly discussing an issue raised by Darth Jbrase, he suggested that we issue a request to the Senate to be granted status as an autonomous region. Thoughts on the matter?

What is an Autonomous Country

     An autonomous region is one that is accorded greater control over its own affairs while still being a subnational entity.

Any specifics you're looking for?  Because the regions seem fairly autonomous as is.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I don't think we should move on to another bill now since flood legislation may become necessary in the near future. Briefly discussing an issue raised by Darth Jbrase, he suggested that we issue a request to the Senate to be granted status as an autonomous region. Thoughts on the matter?

What is an Autonomous Country

     An autonomous region is one that is accorded greater control over its own affairs while still being a subnational entity.

Any specifics you're looking for?  Because the regions seem fairly autonomous as is.

     The regions are roughly as autonomous as real-life states. Actually, I'm not sure as to the specifics. It was Jbrase's idea, anyway.

[CatoMinor]

     I don't think we should move on to another bill now since flood legislation may become necessary in the near future. Briefly discussing an issue raised by Darth Jbrase, he suggested that we issue a request to the Senate to be granted status as an autonomous region. Thoughts on the matter?

What is an Autonomous Country

     An autonomous region is one that is accorded greater control over its own affairs while still being a subnational entity.

Any specifics you're looking for?  Because the regions seem fairly autonomous as is.

     The regions are roughly as autonomous as real-life states. Actually, I'm not sure as to the specifics. It was Jbrase's idea, anyway.

How about including being exempt from the federal income tax? Not receiving some federal services in exchange? Conducting our own election for our federal senate seat, with whatever voting method we chose to use.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Interestingly, giving the regions more control over the process of electing their Senators seems like something that might be happening in the near future anyway. Emphasis on "might", though.

[Mr. Taft Republican]

     Interestingly, giving the regions more control over the process of electing their Senators seems like something that might be happening in the near future anyway. Emphasis on "might", though.

Well then, let's pave the way if it's coming and be rebels if it's not!

[CatoMinor]

Well then, let's pave the way if it's coming

Agreed, they very little I've heard sounds like it would be months away if it happend, why not push for it now.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Well then, let's pave the way if it's coming

Agreed, they very little I've heard sounds like it would be months away if it happend, why not push for it now.

Agreed. We clearly can handle most of our affairs.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Congratulations to all Legislators on winning re-election. Now that we are in the 9th Legislature, let's get back to business.

     I am thinking that we should act to deal with the damage from the flooding. According to this article abstract, damage costs could reach $9 billion. I don't have a New York Times subscription, so I can't view anymore than that. Thoughts on how to proceed?

[Yelnoc]

Just as a general note; use real life publications on the tornadoes and flooding damage.  There are no differences between the Atlasian and American natural disasters excepting what action the state (regional) government(s) take.

[Dancing with Myself]

If we have enough surplus left, we can give money to the regions with damage. For the un populated regions that are damaged as well as populated regions, we can hire un-employed workers to clean up the mess. it would lower the unemployment rate

[Pingvin]

I'm gonna run for legisature, but I will be absent from May 28th to late August. Would it be possible to me to run?
Also, I'm pro-autonomy and from RPP.
Can we use National Guard to solve our flood problems??

[Yelnoc]

I'm gonna run for legisature, but I will be absent from May 28th to late August. Would it be possible to me to run?

Legislative elections are held every other month.  May's election was just held, so the next one is in July and then September.  Executive elections are also held every other month; the next one is this June and then August.  If you will not be here at all between that time, you will have to wait until August or September to run.  Just so you know, candidacies are declared in this thread.

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Notice that Emperor PiT (equivalent to the Governor) already deployed the IDS Militia, which serves a similar position to the state guards in the USA.

[Dancing with Myself]

I'm gonna run for legisature, but I will be absent from May 28th to late August. Would it be possible to me to run?

This is not the place to announce that you are. Sorry

[Associate Justice PiT]

     We should have plenty of surplus left. I am thinking that we should allot $9 billion to the Tornado and Disaster Management Institution to award in contracts. The idea of employing people to clean up the mess in unpopulated areas is interesting, though I am not sure that it would be easy to qualify or quantify the damage done. What exactly would qualify as a mess in an area that is not inhabited or used by humans?

[Dancing with Myself]

     We should have plenty of surplus left. I am thinking that we should allot $9 billion to the Tornado and Disaster Management Institution to award in contracts. The idea of employing people to clean up the mess in unpopulated areas is interesting, though I am not sure that it would be easy to qualify or quantify the damage done. What exactly would qualify as a mess in an area that is not inhabited or used by humans?

Land that is abandoned or does not have any house near by could qualify. I saw on CBS news that there is quite a bit of abandoned areas in Louisiana

[Associate Justice PiT]

     We should have plenty of surplus left. I am thinking that we should allot $9 billion to the Tornado and Disaster Management Institution to award in contracts. The idea of employing people to clean up the mess in unpopulated areas is interesting, though I am not sure that it would be easy to qualify or quantify the damage done. What exactly would qualify as a mess in an area that is not inhabited or used by humans?

Land that is abandoned or does not have any house near by could qualify. I saw on CBS news that there is quite a bit of abandoned areas in Louisiana

     My question is what would constitute a mess out there? When there's no property to be damaged or used land to be rendered unusable, it's difficult to set a standard for the amount of flood relief to be given. I would prefer to limit the amount we budget to this problem, in case another disaster arises.

[Dancing with Myself]

     We should have plenty of surplus left. I am thinking that we should allot $9 billion to the Tornado and Disaster Management Institution to award in contracts. The idea of employing people to clean up the mess in unpopulated areas is interesting, though I am not sure that it would be easy to qualify or quantify the damage done. What exactly would qualify as a mess in an area that is not inhabited or used by humans?

Land that is abandoned or does not have any house near by could qualify. I saw on CBS news that there is quite a bit of abandoned areas in Louisiana

     My question is what would constitute a mess out there? When there's no property to be damaged or used land to be rendered unusable, it's difficult to set a standard for the amount of flood relief to be given. I would prefer to limit the amount we budget to this problem, in case another disaster arises.

We can get the workers to eliminate the debris in the area in case of future use

[Associate Justice PiT]

     It's fine, though I'd suggest not budgeting a huge amount to doing that. We could also use them to clear debris off of used land, since somebody will have to do that too. At any rate, we need to get the other Darths here.