Senate Committee Structure

[Gabu]

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

I volunteer to be a third member on this committee.

[Gabu]

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.

[Gabu]

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.

I suppose, but it seems to me that they should be separate.  I don't think that Al's suggestion was set in stone.

[Gabu]

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.

I suppose, but it seems to me that they should be separate.  I don't think that Al's suggestion was set in stone.

You really can't have any more than 3 committees, and Defense and Foriegn Policy seem to go together better than most other things do.

Yes, you have a point.

[Gabu]

This is how the committees should be divided:

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

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?

Both of these ideas are quite excellent ones, I think.

[Gabu]

We need another member on Appropriations & Taxation. Seeing as Gabu proposed that military spending wossname, he's being "volunteered" for the third place on the commitee ;-)

I proposed that bill for John Ford and I'm already on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

[Gabu]

Shall we proceed to create these committees, or wait until the Constitutional Convention?  Either way, feel free to express your interest in joining any of the following committees

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

Foreign Affairs and Defense for me

I don't think that we need a new Constitution to create Senate committees.  Now should be fine.

At any rate, I'd like to be on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.