Senate Committee Structure

[JohnFKennedy]

I volunteer to be a member of the Foreign Relations Commitee.

^^ That is if I am not re-elected to the President Pro Temporeship. Assumedly if I am not either Defarge or Supersoulty will be elected so  this won't have too much effect, heh.

[JohnFKennedy]

We have four volunteers for defense/foreign relations committee.

Two of whom are running for PPT which means the odds are they won't both be able to be on the committee so this *should* work itself out.

[JohnFKennedy]

We have four volunteers for defense/foreign relations committee.

Are the defense and foreign relations committees the same thing?  It seems to me that they'd have different purposes.

Al's suggestion makes them so.

[JohnFKennedy]

This is how the committees should be divided:

Senate Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
Senate Appropriations and Taxation Commitee
Senate Education, Health & Welfare Commitee

I like this proposal personally.

[JohnFKennedy]

This is how the committees should be divided:

Senate Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
Senate Appropriations and Taxation Commitee
Senate Education, Health & Welfare Commitee

If you want to go with something like this, it might be advisable to construct the cabinet in a similar manner:

Secretary of State & Defense
Secretary of Economic Affairs
Secretary of Education, Health & Welfare.

Basically this means that a major policy area presently not represented in cabinet is represented. Also, the position of SecState seems totally useless presently: When do you last remember a SecState doing something?

That is an interesting proposal actually Peter, though assumedly we would keep the Secretary of Forum Affairs and the Attorney General too.

[JohnFKennedy]

We need some more people in the EHW Committee.  Me and Nym do not constitute a committee.

If no one else wants it, I'm fine with moonlighting

If we are to have three committees I would far prefer it if we have three Senators in each committee (hopefully in a way that is representative of the Senatorial make-up) with the PPT (as was suggested) not included. I don't think anyone should be serving on more than one committee.