Mideast Assembly Thread

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The 36th Session of the Mideast Assembly is now called to order.  We will now take nominations for Speaker of the Assembly for the next 48 hours.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I accept the nomination.

Seeing no other nominations, I ask unanimous consent that Inks.LWC be elected Speaker.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Seeing no objection, the motion carries, and Inks.LWC is elected Speaker.

Legislation may now be introduced.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

We'll be doing the normal budget this session anyway. If you have something in mind, feel free to introduce it. Otherwise, i'll try to get it up this weekend with changes from last year.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

We need to make a change. What would you all say to expanding the number of people who can bring legislation for consideration?

We obviously aren't dealing with clogging issues. I say we change the rules to just allow legislators to start a thread for their bill. The speaker can control voting within those threads but Assemblyman do not have to wait on the speaker to get their bill considered.

But then the Speaker can't change the title, and people miss votes. Sorry I missed your bill, but all you had to do was send a PM....

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

No, no, no. I'm not blaming you or anyone. I just think it'll gin up more activity if we let people directly post bills to the floor. I think that will add some much-needed activity to the region. This isn't about you, Inks. It's not about anyone in particular. It's about the region.

Again, the problem with that becomes difficulty in notifying people of the status of the bill. There's no need for this change, and it would only complicate things.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I'll have all bills up this evening.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Technically, Cassius would have go through a confirmation hearing before officially becoming a senator, as has been the case in the past. That should all be done once we get our Speaker.

I have checked, there isn't any any Mideast senate vacancy law.
So, the Governor has the only power to appoint a new senator, according to the federal constitution.

No, there's a provision. I'm on my phone now, so I can't get it, but it's there.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Article III, Section 6 of the Constitution.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Very well. I look forward to answering any questions you may have for me.

We normally have a separate confirmation thread that is typically started by the Speaker. Since there is no speaker at the moment, and I know of no law forbidding me to do so, I will open a thread for your confirmation to try and speed up the process in the interests of ensuring representation of our region in the Atlasian Senate.

Article III, Section 6, cl. 2:

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[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Just a reminder to the Assembly that a budget has to be passed first.