Senate Committee Structure

[Peter]

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?

[Peter]

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

Thanks to Fritz and Ernest, the occupiers of those jobs actually have something to do when in office, so obviously it would be best to keep them.

<rant>I would like it if the SecTreasury or SecEconomic Affairs actually did something, like, I don't know, take part in budget discussions, or some other radical idea like that, but thats just me.

Also, perhaps the SecState might care to comment when proposals that remove us from NAFTA and the UN come to the floor

Pretty much you can trace my resignation back to these points, there were always two cabinet secretaries who did diddly squat and were never held accountable</rant>

[Peter]

If you want to go with Senators picking their committees in order of seniority, the order is presently as follows (not including JFK):

1. States (April Midterms)
2. Nym90 (Oct Midterms)
=  Defarge
=  Bono
5. Siege40 (byelection to fill Migrendel seat in Nov)
6. Al (Dec Midterms)
=  Supersoulty
=  WMS
=  Gabu
Quite how you would work out the sixth place tie would be interesting.