Ebowed
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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2007, 01:02:07 AM » |
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I'll take a minute to explain how I plan on handling the job if I'm chosen by my peers.
The Senate has been moving painfully slow recently. Despite an increase in available slots and a large amount of legislation to consider, much of what the Senate manages to pass consists of constitutional amendments and miscellaneous attempts at tweaking the OSPR. The Sixteenth Senate managed to pass four pieces of statute (or five, depending on how you group the Atlasian-Kuwait Free Trade Act). This is a heavy decrease in productivity.
I hope to streamline the Senate's activity to ensure that we don't spend weeks at a time on single pieces of legislation. Senators will feel more confident in introducing legislation because they know it will be debated in due time. In past sessions, legislation was bogged down by minor amendments where voting was kept open longer than it needed to be. As President of the Senate a year earlier I worked in coordination with PPT MasterJedi to produce one of the most efficient, productive senate sessions ever seen. I hope to do this again, should the Senate allow me the oppurtunity.
Currently, we have legislation in the pipeline that was introduced in the fifteenth session-- more than two months ago. Legislation that will deal with "real world", economic issues are overlooked in favor of minor, often futile forum affairs reform. The result is a low interest among the public in Senate activity and a general feeling of boredom among the Senate itself. If we are to resolve this we need to take a different direction quickly. Therefore I ask for the Senate's support in this PPT election so that we can begin debating legislation at a more suitable pace and allow for more ideas, proposals, and suggestions to be considered.
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