Senate Resolution Calling for a Constitutional Convention.

[JohnFKennedy]

I call for the Yeas and Nays

Yea

Only the President of the Senate or the President Pro Tempore can call a vote on something......As we haven't got a President Pro Tempore yet we must wait for the Vice President to call a vote or for a PPT to be elected.

[JohnFKennedy]

I will put this to a vote on the seventh as has been requested to keep those outgoing Senators happy .

[JohnFKennedy]

I will indeed put this to a vote today (the seventh) as I said I would, however, would we prefer a 17 or 11 delegate convention? I think we should decide that first.

[JohnFKennedy]

I propose to amend the delegation apportionments to meet Ernest's recommendations.

I would like to quickly call a vote on the amendment.

[JohnFKennedy]

All Senators please vote yea nay or abstain on my proposed amendment.


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Yea

[JohnFKennedy]

If I counted correctly, that's six yeas and one abstention, enough to pass the amendment.
Could you call the final vote soon?

Five yeas and one abstention actually, but that is enough to pass.

Would all Senators now vote upon the amended version of the resolution (with 17 delegates allotted to the convention).

[JohnFKennedy]

Yea

[JohnFKennedy]

The midwest and pacific governors should be raising hell about being under represented.

The Pacific has the same number of delegates as the Mid-East and the South-Eastern Regions so I fail to see why they would be angry. The Mid-West has almost nobody in it so they aren't really either.

[JohnFKennedy]

The midwest and pacific governors should be raising hell about being under represented.

The Pacific has the same number of delegates as the Mid-East and the South-Eastern Regions so I fail to see why they would be angry. The Mid-West has almost nobody in it so they aren't really either.

it means the northeast can trample the rights of the midwest at will.

Not on its own it can't. The North-Eastern Region has seven delegates out of a total of seventeen, the other regions could trample on the North-East if they joined together as could the regions by going against any of them, I fail to see your point?

[JohnFKennedy]

With six votes in favour to one against the resolution has passed.

I believe it calls for the first meeting to be the seventeenth of January so I hope the Governors can get picking on delegates!

[JohnFKennedy]

It also specifies that the President is to call for the Convention.

Yes it does I know he has to do that, as does he I believe, oh and to correct my earlier statement it says the first meeting should be by the seventeenth.