SENATE BILL: PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION AMENDMENT (Sent to Regions)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Sponsor: Oakvale

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The sponsor has 24 hours to begin advocating for this.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I apologise for the all caps. *cringe*

My reasoning is fairly basic - the people elect a President trusting his or her (who are we kidding?) judgement in choosing his successor - the Vice-President. In the event that the Vice Presidency's vacant it makes sense that the President's successor should also be chosen by him, hence a member of the Cabinet.

Furthermore, a member of the President's Cabinet is more likely to be closer to his philosophy and ideology than is the PPT - who could be any random Senator, meaning that Atlasians would be more likely to get an executive that's closely aligned with the views and outlook of the departing President.

And, yeah, I think we can all agree we can't afford some freak incident where Yankee becomes President and leaves the Senate.

Almost happened in June 2011.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

For one thing, I would like to see if someone is opposed this and get at least one good reason not to. And that may sound nuts, but I don't feel comfortable on Constitutional Amendments when the Senate is an echo chamber and then uh-oh it just failed the Midwest and Pacific or the Mideast and the IDS and thus is rejected.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Are we going to see some amendments here or is it done?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senators this bill is now at final vote, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye

For some reason I don't feel comfortable with this, though.


Vote on Senate Passage of the Presidential Succession Amendment:

Aye (: Averroës Nix, Ben, Franzl, HagridoftheDeep, jdb, Napoleon, NC Yankee and Snowstalker
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Oakvale
Vacant Seats (1): Spamage

With eight votes in the affirmative and none in the negative the bill has passed the Senate and is sent to the Regions for ratification.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I was really confused as to why I apparently didn't vote on this despite clearly remembering doing so but then I realised I encountered the "It has not been 20 seconds blah blah blah" thing and must have forgot to resubmit. *cringe*

There is something about this amendment. I voted Nay initially and then changed it to Aye a few seconds later, as I shook it off, somewhat.