HOUSE BILL: September 2017 Foreign Relations Review (Passed)

[Anna Komnene]

Just popping in to chime in briefly to remind everyone that in Atlasia's world Saudi Arabia is alleged to have executed over 100,000 homosexuals. The president has suspended military aid to them and appointed a commission to investigate. And the Secretary of State seemed to agree that giving aid to the Saudis would not be a good idea at the present time.

So seeing a campaign to reinstate full aid to the Saudis here is very strange to say the least... I would highly encourage members to consider supporting this amendment if they're on the fence.

[Anna Komnene]

Points 1 and 4 were basically me trying to figure out how to incorporate the House amendment about the disputed territories. Not sure what happened with Transnistria, but sounds like it amounts to the same thing. We could just pick one and adjust it if you want (without needing a vote I assume)

[Anna Komnene]

So thoughts on what to do here Yankee/PiT? This is the House amendment I was referring to about points 1 and 4. It probably just got overlooked since it was so long ago. The House adopted the amendment, so I don't think its a big problem that it wasnt in the final vote text and we could just adjust it now. What do you think? Points 2 and 3 are probably easy fixes too.

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[Anna Komnene]

Both references to Guatemala have the same listed policy so that can be fixed easily.


I was under the impression that all House amendments had already been offered in the Senate.


 

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Number 4 also is not a problem, as the final text passed is the sum total of all the amendments passed by the House. If something is left off accidentally, it still present in the current text and thus the "actual" final text.

So 3 and 4 are easily fixed.

All of the amendments were offered. It's just that when I went to put the amendment into the text, it didn't really... fit anywhere. That's why I put the addendum explaining what everything meant and then I interpreted it literally and went in and changed all of the disputed territory instances to reflect the spirit of the amendment.

Anyway, the rules gives the Vice President the power to resolve disputes between the houses. This isn't really a dispute, but I think PiT could just pull together a final text that fixes any issues and we can all just sign off on it.

[Anna Komnene]

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