HB 1177: Open Ports Act (Failed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I also share concerns about the affect on the shipping industry.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I would note to the House that our Secretary of State, who supports this bill, has voiced his intention to renegotiate trade policies that do not work to the benefit of Atlasia.  The Jones Act may have helped a few domestic shipping jobs, but it also unfairly impacts states like Hawaii and Alaska and the territories, such as Puerto Rico, which do not share a border with the Lower 48 states.

How about some exceptions being established by statute for storm response and so forth?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

In the absence of sponsor feedback for one reason or another, the best approach is to just put it too a vote. In the old days when amendment votes lasted five days, it was worth going to any length to avoid them.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

In the absence of sponsor feedback for one reason or another, the best approach is to just put it too a vote. In the old days when amendment votes lasted five days, it was worth going to any length to avoid them.

     My preference has been, in lieu of a sponsor, to give all Representatives the right to object, and if nobody objects then it passes. A much more convenient practice than having a sponsor at all, but it is not one that is well-supported within statute.

The rules are actually in that sense designed to produce confrontation and debate in that sense. The rules tend to treat the current text as the prerogative of the sponsor and place a degree of burden on those seeking to change it.

If we didn't have sponsors, chances are there would be even less debate as there is less investment in challenging or opposing amendments.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This vote only has 15 hours left.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I object to a final vote.

There is expected to be another amendment along the lines that LT discussed.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This is what happens when Atlas cannot hold up the globe anymore.