SENATE BILL: Anti-Conscription Amendment (Failed)

[TJ in Oregon]

Aye

[TJ in Oregon]

A possible suggestion, similar to the amendments TJ and I wrote up when this thing emerged before was to place strict conditions
a) that it could only happen if the Atlasian homeland was attacked
b) that there were exclusions for single-parent households, students, existing emergency workers and other essential service workers

We could pull that language back out of the trash can if this fails and maybe the senate is more open to compromise than it was four months ago. I still think that language could be problematic in some cases, like World War II for instance, and prefer Ben's Amendment since it allows greater flexibility for any situation that might arise. I, of course, am still open to my language

[TJ in Oregon]

A possible suggestion, similar to the amendments TJ and I wrote up when this thing emerged before was to place strict conditions
a) that it could only happen if the Atlasian homeland was attacked
b) that there were exclusions for single-parent households, students, existing emergency workers and other essential service workers

We could pull that language back out of the trash can if this fails and maybe the senate is more open to compromise than it was four months ago. I still think that language could be problematic in some cases, like World War II for instance, and prefer Ben's Amendment since it allows greater flexibility for any situation that might arise. I, of course, am still open to my language

That amendment passed the Senate.  It failed in three regions.

No, that was the version that gave the regions the power to conscript. The version that simply left the federal government with that power to conscript in case of a land invasion failed in the senate.

[TJ in Oregon]

Why do we need to change the status of all these territories just to make the language work on an amendment? Why don't we just change the wording to include Atlasian territories and deal all the rest of this separately? None of this really needs to have to do with this bill. (Not that I agree we should forcibly change the status of our territories, but that's a separate issue)

[TJ in Oregon]

Nay

[TJ in Oregon]

Nay

I think a vote on the legislation itself would be better at this point.

[TJ in Oregon]

Nay

[TJ in Oregon]

I would like to change my vote to Aye.

I'm not in favor of an outright ban over conscription, but it is something that ought to be taken very seriously. Thus, I have decided to change my vote in favor of making it more difficult.