Senate Office of NC Yankee (Updated Senate Index)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The congestion has continued throughout the day so I am glad I made the appointment for tomorrow.

Are you in any Facebook Groups for long COVID? I've heard this is a relatively common thing for people who had bad cases.

I do not use Facebook.

The doctor said it is inflammation in the lungs, but based on my profile, age and lack of underlying conditions, I should be able to recover back to normal at "some undefined point in time". She did x-rays but the week ended without them calling me back to tell me what they found.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The x-rays came back negative. If the chest congestion and tightness remain, the next step is to have the test done to check for asthma and COPD. The thinking is that since I have allergies, then it is possible I was developing asthma but my body was suppressing that only for Covid to aggravate the situation.

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

The x-rays came back negative. If the chest congestion and tightness remain, the next step is to have the test done to check for asthma and COPD. The thinking is that since I have allergies, then it is possible I was developing asthma but my body was suppressing that only for Covid to aggravate the situation.

Will be praying for you mate. Thanks for keeping us updated. Get well soon.

[Spark]

The x-rays came back negative. If the chest congestion and tightness remain, the next step is to have the test done to check for asthma and COPD. The thinking is that since I have allergies, then it is possible I was developing asthma but my body was suppressing that only for Covid to aggravate the situation.

My prayers and hopes are extended to you for a speedy recovery.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The x-rays came back negative. If the chest congestion and tightness remain, the next step is to have the test done to check for asthma and COPD. The thinking is that since I have allergies, then it is possible I was developing asthma but my body was suppressing that only for Covid to aggravate the situation.

We’re with you! Keeping you in my thoughts old friend.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Archiving 27th Senate Noticeboard

Important Links - New Congress Session
Regional Gov't Thread


Bills/Resolutions Introduced

Amendments Introduced

Votes
Vote on President Pro-Tempore of the Senate: NC Yankee
Vote on Final Senate passage of the Continuing Resolution: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the POBA Act: Abstain
Vote on Final Confirmation of CraneHusband as Comproller General: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the National Silver Alert Act: Aye
Vote on final Passage of the J.K. Sestak Congressional Reform Resolution: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of House Amended Red-Green New Deal: Nay
Vote on Final Passage of the Arsenal of Democracy Act: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the Let Them Do Their Jobs Act: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the Access to Credit for Small Business Act: Aye

Statements on the Floor
Request for update on budget process
Responsibility in Senate Finance matters
Inquiring about ongoing drilling in expanded regions included in POBA act
Gauging impact on jobs and oil production from POBA
Concerns about Joint Sessions
A possible utility for joint session in select circumstance
Sunset Clause in Joint Session proposal
Arsenal of Democracy Post
Comptroller Hearing and Scoring Bills
Comptroller and Unofficial bill Scores Question
Restriction on Chambers only voting on their own rules
Concerns about the follow through on administrative actions in bills
Activity in Game and CraneHusband
Stronger tendency for Cabinet positions to Inactive
Resolutions and thoughts on Religious Freedom Resolution in Particular
Question about Credit Unions Bill
Questions about Budget

Statements in Other Chamber
Joint Resolution Dealing with rules changes in both houses
More on House and Senate Rules

Non-Floor Speeches

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This past week was my first full week at work since December 6th - 12th and with this being right as the company started its new fiscal year at the beginning of February they rolled out new productivity standards. If it were just that it would be one thing, but they keep putting me in areas I am not as experienced in and keep making all kinds of veiled threats and dire warnings about tasks. They know about my lingering problems but any kind of understanding or accommodation is seemingly not in the cards and it is getting to the point where I feel like I am daily having to choose my job and having money to live over my health. Wednesday night through Thursday was especially bad since I pushed myself too hard Wednesday and then had the above problem happen on Thursday with unfamiliar assignments and constant pressure/stress from above.

[Mike Thick]

That's really sh**tty, Yankee. I'm sorry. Wish there was something we could do.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

feel like crap and I have to work. Already should have left actually.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Its a like a yo-yo, I began to think this time is different, this time it won't come back. Then I don't get enough sleep, the weather changes, I push myself too hard at work to please people who will never satisfied and it comes right back. The chest tightness I mean.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I have begun exploring my options for a new Deputy PPT. My basic criteria is that I want to keep it being from a Laborite, I would prefer some level of administrative experience, which frankly most all the options have and then beyond that activity levels. I hope to have a selection made in the next couple of days.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I will have to update and archive the Senate index tomorrow as since it is now over a week out of date sifting through a couple hundred posts is not something I can do in the few minutes I have while I should be getting ready for work.

I have made several contacts relating to the new chamber session and to debate on a bill or two.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

29th People's Regional Senate:

Slot 1 (General)
Hong Kong Solidarity & Safe Harbour Act - SB28:21
Sponsor: Blair
Status: Initial Debate Period
Since: March 01, 2021, 12:09:47 AM
Ends: March 04, 2021, 12:09:47 AM

Slot 2 (General)
Congress Should Serve The People Act - SB29:01
Sponsor: NC Yankee
Status: Initial Debate Period
Since: March 06, 2021, 01:28:51 AM
Ends: March 09, 2021, 01:28:51 AM

Slot 3 (General)
Renaming Senate Rules and Improving Senate Rules on Final Votes Resolution - SR29:02
Sponsor: NC Yankee
Status: Initial Debate Period
Since: March 06, 2021, 04:28:14 PM
Ends: March 09, 2021, 04:28:14 PM

Slot 4 (General)
Naloxone Saves Lives (NSL) ACT - SB29:03
Sponsor: Blair
Status: Initial Debate Period
Since: March 06, 2021, 06:54:17 PM
Ends: March 09, 2021, 06:54:17 PM

Slot 5 (General)
Drug Addiction Treatment Services Bill - SB28:12
Sponsor: Spark
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Slot 6 (General)
Chinese Currency Manipulation Resolution - SR28:13
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Slot 7 (General)
Making HIV/AIDs History Act - SB29:04
Sponsor: Blair
Status: Initial Debate Period
Since: March 06, 2021, 11:01:50 PM
Ends: March 09, 2021, 11:01:50 PM


Slot 8 (General)  
Earth First Act
Sponsor: Blair
Status: Initial Debate Period
Since: March 07, 2021, 01:02:13 PM
Ends: March 10, 2021, 01:02:13 PM

Slot 9 (General)
COVID-19 Funeral Relief Assistance Act - SB28:17
Sponsor: Spark498
Status: Debating
Since: February 24, 2021, 12:45:12 AM
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Slot 11 (General) - VP Administered
SB28-20: Fixing Tipped Minimum Wage Laws Act
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Slot 12 (General) - VP Administered
SB28-22: High Speed Rail Act
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Slot 14 (House Passed Legislation) - VP Administered
SB28-23: Increasing Requirements Act
Sponsor: NC Yankee
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Slot 15 (House Passed Legislation) - VP Administered
SB28-24: Urban Investment and Redevelopment Act
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Slot 17 (Emergencies) Restricted Use/Presidential Authorization  - VP Administered

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Slot 18 (Budgetary Matters)  - VP Administered

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Presidential Confirmation Hearings

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Who: Oregon Blue Dog
What: Vice President
Status: Questioning Nominee
Since: March 06, 2021, 12:15:45 AM
Ends: March 09, 2021, 12:15:45 AM

Who:FalterinArc
What: Joint Session: Deputy President of Congress
Status: At Final Vote
Since: March 07, 2021, 12:28:45 AM
Ends: March 10, 2021, 12:28:45 AM

Who: Devout Centrist
What: Secretary of State
Status: Questioning Nominee
Since: March 06, 2021, 11:37:30 PM
Ends: March 09, 2021, 11:37:30 PM

Who: Peanut
What: Game Moderator
Status: Questioning Nominee
Since: March 07, 2021, 12:28:45 AM
Ends: March 10, 2021, 12:28:45 AM


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Passed Legislation:
Childcare Costs Reduction Act - SB28:14 - Passed 5-1

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Rejected/Tabled Legislation:


Treaties Ratified:

Queue

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Temporary Amendment Tracker:

• March 06, 2021, 06:57:10 PM s29:03 Blair amendment to the Covid-19 Funeral Relief...
• March 06, 2021, 11:54:32 AM s29:02 Spark amendment to the Chinese Currency...
• March 06, 2021, 11:06:35 AM s29:01 NC Yankee amendment to Congress Should Serve...

General
SB28:12 Drug Addiction Treatment Services
SR28:13 Chinese Currency Manipulation Resolution
SB28:14 Childcare Costs Reduction Act
SR28:15 Middle East Peace and Two State Solution
SB28:16 Farmer Stabilization Act of 2021
SB28:17 COVID-19 Funeral Relief Assistance Act
SB28:18 Religious Freedom Act of 2021

VP
SR28:19 Streamlining Congressional Debate Resolution
SB28:20 Fixing Tipped Minimum Wage Laws Act

General
SB28:21 Hong Kong Solidarity & Safe Harbour Act

VP
SB28:22 High Speed Rail Act
SB28:23 Increasing Requirements Act
SB28:24 Urban Investment and Redevelopment Act

General
SB29:01 Congress Should Serve the People Act
SR29:02 Renaming Senate Rules and Improving Senate Rules on Final Votes Resolution
SR29:03 Naloxone Saves Lives (NSL) ACT
SB29:04 Making HIV/AIDs History Act
SB29:05 Earth First Act

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Just updated the Senate wiki, good thing I didn't update it after the Congressional Reform Resolution, because copy and pasting the old text of that section back in would have been painful. Just had to add the links to the bottom for all three.

I used the "Past Noticeboard" links in the current 29th Thread, skimmed for SR coded bill numbers and ignored foreign policy and amendment stuff. I was able to review a year and a half of of relevant resolutions and edit the changes in just about ten minutes or so.


We have done so much to make wiki updating easier.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Archiving 28th Senate Index. My god this was massive.

Important Links - New Congress Session
Regional Gov't Thread


Bills/Resolutions Introduced

Amendments Introduced

• January 22, 2021, 12:13:54 AM S28:04 NC Yankee For Ted amendment to Congressional...

Votes
Vote on President Pro-Tempore of the Senate: NC Yankee
Vote on Final Senate Passage of the COVID-19 Family and Essential Worker Security Act Aye
Vote on Final Senate Passage of the No Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Act: Aye
Vote on Final Senate Passage of the Budget Aye
Vote on Final Senate Passage of the Aid to Venezuela Act: Aye
Vote on Final Senate Passage of the Fixing J.K. Sestak... Aye
Vote on Final Senate Passage of the End Fire and Rehire Act: Aye
Vote on Final Senate Passage of the Vaccine Production Act: Aye
Vote on Motion to Table the Chinese Currency Manipulation Resolution: Nay
Vote on Final Passage of the Youth Preparedness Act: Aye
Vote on S28:07 by Tack to the Walter Reuther... : Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the Farmer Stabilization Act: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the Breaking Big Corporations: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the Special Elections Amendment: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of Middle East Resolution: Aye
Vote on Amendment S28:11 by Tack50: Nay
Vote on Confirmation of Scott as Vice President: Aye
Vote on Confirmation of FalterinArc as Deputy PoC: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the Civilian Conservation Corps: Abstain
Vote on Final Passage of the Religious Freedom Act of 2021: Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the Streamlining Congressional Rules Resolution: Reluctant Aye
Vote on Final Passage of the Filling Congressional Vacancies (House original text): Nay
Final Vote on Passage of the The Walter Reuther & Cesar Chavez Solidarity Act: Nay
Final Vote on Passage of the Childcare Costs Reduction Act: Aye


Statements on the Floor
Budget Suggestion
Latest Covid Bill and relation to budget effort
Relationship of Covid support to previous efforts
Relationship between Covid programs Part II
Narrowing Down Dates in Budget Debate
Question About authorship of previous budget
Pushing Budget Debate forward
Pressing for feedback in budgetary debate
Housing Reform Issue
Pressing for more responses in budget
Requesting Senators to comment
Market Share consideration in Breaking up Big Companies
Inquiry about alternative structure for home program
Pressing Debate on Big Corporations Bill
Pressing for responses on Housing Bill
Pushing debate in CCC bill
Concerns about lack of debate in Big Corporations Bill
Support for Union Elections regulated by Labor Department, opposition to Card Check
Long standing approach to seek quorum
Bumping question in Housing Reform about tenant applications
Preference for consolidating efforts over creating new ones
Clarifications suggested in amendment to Big Corporations Bill
Only expanding reach of bills if their is appetite to address the additional issue
Inquiring about Communication with Comptroller about Cost Estimates on CCC
Hammering Things Down in Breaking up Big Corporations Bill
Possible personal connection to End Fire and Rehire Bill
Threat of retaliation with signed affirmations instead of union votes
Special Elections Amendment concerns
Reposting required actions on Breaking Big Corporations Act.
Drug Addiction Treatment Services Act Concerns
China Resolution
More on Special Elections Amendment
Senators Interacting
Partial Terms and Representation
House candidates and niche support
Personal role in House Appointments and Approaches
Reposting Concerns on Special Elections Amendment
Technical difficulties
Drawing the line between intimidation and the other side in union elections
Status inquiry on breaking big corporations
feedback on amendment to Special Elections Amendment
Continuing to probe debate parameters in potential union elections
Need for member appetite for expansive efforts on bills
Concerns for Drug Addiction bill overlap
Preference for feedback from former sponsors
Probing overlap in Childcare Bill
Communicating Devout Centrist's concerns about overlap on Drug bill
Currency Manipulation
Conditional triggers in legislation
Inquiry about opposition to organized religion to a colleague
Funding and Drug Treatment Bill
Freedom of Religion
Reforming VP Confirmation Process
VP Vacancy Process
Fixed Appropriation in Bills
Shifting Currency Manipulation Resolution to a general statement on trade practices
Concers with Streamlining Rules Resolution as a "Joint Act"
Constitutional Issues with Streamlining Rules Resolution as a "Joint Act"
Separate passage of rules for each chamber
Corrected Text for Streamlining Congressional Rules Resolution
Corrected text to the Special Elections Amendment
Fixed Costs in Drug Addiction Treatment bill
Requesting background on "salami slicing" in Chinese Foreign Policy
Importance of checking for redundancy in bills
Need for defining Salami Slicing in Chinese Resolution
Income threshold in Funeral Relief bill
Need for hyperlinking referenced texts in bills
Inquiring as to impact of Hong Kong Resolution
Further Actions on Hong Kong
Increasing Requirements Advocacy


Statements in Other Chamber
Legislative Friction
Relationship with Other Countries and Foreign Aid conditions
Pre-debate Cloture Vote
Realism in Foreign Policy simulation
Danger to extreme exclusivity in Registration law changes
Risk of over reaction in activity laws

Non-Floor Speeches
Dangers of Going too Far in Response to Offsite-Recruitment with Past Examples
Southern Elections Bill Recommendations
Response to Semi-Presidential Thread
Contesting Radical Control of the Language of Reform
Exclusivism and Power in Chamber Administration
Game Reductionism and the "Thankless Jobs"

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

My noticeboard post and amendment tracker should be completely up to date as of this moment. That leaves the index in the second post of this thread and that is going to be probably too tall an order for tonight.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Just started some more votes. Not fond of doing Senate stuff on my phone but these sessions succeed or fail in the first couple weeks.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

We are about to have a number of free slots. We have had a fairly decent start in terms of the number of bills and amendments so far, but I would like to see that keep going for the other 75% of this session. This week has been a bit slower than the previous ones, hopefully we can return to the starting pace over the course of the next week and continue forward on a solid footing for the rest of this session.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Its a good thing I have slowed down on my posting at least somewhat but even so, updating the index from the 13th onwards is going to be painful as hell and worse still I kind of need an hour or more to do that and it is not something I can easily split up because once I edit the post I have no indication of where I left off, so I have to do it all at once. I might squeeze it in tomorrow morning but that is a tall order for a work day.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I would like to see some more Senate bills as we are emptying out slots now on the Senate originated side and we have none to replace them.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Also, I will note that I have a lot of things going on at once and my hope is these will make certain things easier. Once I transition completely over to the new computer build, that will merge my ability to access discord and my primary Atlas posting computer into the same machine. This will also hopefully be comfortable for me since I did some rearranging in my room and the Windows Seven Computer is now five feet further away and thus making that kind of multitasking impossible right now.

I am waiting on a new computer desk that will fit it, which should arrive next week.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

For the last several years, my allergies had been getting less bad even during historically bad periods like say Spring time when there is a lot of pollen or when I am exposed to large amounts of dust. A big part of the reason why this has probably happened is the medication that have been on has succeeded in suppressing them more and more. However since I had Covid, this appears now to have reversed itself and just like I was experiencing the same fatigue and muscle ache problem from 2018 a month ago, I am now experiencing more historical norms of allergy problems and combined with some degree of lung irritation and tightness (which is new). To make matters worse we had a warm spell that triggered a lot of pollen release here beginning last week and it was just during this period as well that administrative problems led to me going a week without my allergy medication. As a result, the last few days have been rather miserable for me.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The Senate Index is now updated to include all of my Senate actions up through the present moment. I have also fully updated the Senate as well and I will once again reiterate my call from before for more Senate bills. I am working on another Senate rules amendment at present to clear up some issues that were brought up so more time ago, but I will explain more about that in a short while.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

As for the Senate rules, I have now updated and created a new wiki page because it wouldn't let me update the old one to reflect the name change. I will leave both linked on the wiki for now to ensure that there are no problems, but the OSPR one is the one that most accurately reflects current Senate rules at this time. I have moved the articles around and included the added one about Final votes, that was the primary objective behind the last Senate rules amendment.

Now that such has been done, I want to tinker with the definitions section to add some clarity as to legislation by type and also fix some other things that I might come across since last time I ended up finding more things that I wanted to do in the process of trying to address just one so the likelihood is that such will be happening again.