SB 2017-106: Congressional Procedure Amendment (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I agree with PiT.


I think there should also be an exception that opens the door back up for conference committees. I think that would be a much easier way to handle the complex projects like Healthcare (considering all the other difficulties and roadblocks we have so far experienced) then to have it got locked into this auto-pilot system where it could be bounced around and killed.

Now that being said, there are elements of this auto-pilot system that I like, especially since it helps provide a tangible action for the VP that is coded into the constitution and there is nothing requiring a future VP to continue with the signing of bills passing both chambers like Goldwater has been doing, so I am always mindful of regressing. On that note, we should also be mindful of trying to make this transformation of an active VP, a long lasting situation.

The rules changes help, but I would note the last time we had a good run of good VPs (4/5 active between March 2013-July 2014) and we ended up with the rules involving the VP being gutted "in the name of simplicity" (whispers: also partisan/personal animous towards Windjammer).