SENATE BILL: Congress Should Serve The People Act (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This has failed, if blair votes by time I get home I will include him in the count.

Why don't some of you guys offer some amendments inclusions or materials, pay etc.

[Blair]

Nay

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Amendment:
Aye (1): NC Yankee
Nay (5) Blair, Falterin, Pericles, seven and Spark.
Abstain (0)

Didn't Vote (0)

The amendment has failed.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Who wants to offer the next amendment?

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Boo!

[Continential]

SENATE BILL
To clean up the Congress and make it actually serve the people

Be it enacted by the Congress of the Republic of Atlasia assembled

Section 1. Title

This legislation may be cited as the Congress Should Serve The People Act.

Section 2. Congressional Pay Reform

1. The salary for members of Congress shall be reduced from its present $174,000 per year to that of the average median income for a skilled worker. Henceforth, the salary for all members of Congress shall be $50,000 per year, adjusted annually and retroactively since 2014 to account for increases in the average median income for skilled labor in the Republic of Atlasia.

2. Henceforth, Congressional leadership shall no longer be paid a salary higher than what is paid to rank-and-file members of Congress

3. Henceforth, no Congressman shall be permitted to claim an income outside that of income earned as a Congressman, until his or her term has expired.

Section 3. The Congressional Cafeteria

1. The Congressional cafeteria shall henceforth only procure materials from worker owned and managed cooperatives. In cases where a worker owned or managed cooperative does not produce materials needed by the Congressional cafeteria, the procurement of materials must be from a company that uses union labor.

2. All renovations to the Congressional cafeteria, or to any part of the chambers of Congress, shall henceforth be made with union labor.


Section 4. Honoring the Past

1. Congress shall utilize excess funds gained as a result of the reduction in Congressional salaries to contract union sculptors to create a series of busts for display in the House and Senate foyers. These busts shall honor those who fought to create this country and further expand its promises of freedom and equality, and whose philosophy, ideas and leadership have  shaped and will continue to influence Atlasian political thought.

2. The busts shall be of the following persons:

1) George Washington
2) Thomas Jefferson
3) Thomas Paine
4) Frederick Douglass
5) Harriet Tubman
6)  John Brown
7) Abraham Lincoln
8) Susan B. Anthony
9) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
10) Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones
11) Eugene Debs
12)  Walter Reuther
13) Cesar Chavez
14) WEB Dubois
15) Martin Luther King, Jr.
16) John Lewis
17) Nym90
18) Adam Griffin
19) AHDuke99
20)  Truman
21) Sestak
22) Windjammer
23) Blair
24) Pericles
25) PiT
26) Lumine
27) Tmthforu94
28) TJ in Cleve
29) Cris
30) Cincinattus
31) Kingofthebenchpress
32) Al Widdershins
33) Averroes Nix
34) oakvale
35) Maxwell
36) John Engle
37) Xahar
38) Hashemite
39) TNF
40) Snowstalker
41) sirnick

I have an amendment

[SevenEleven]

Who wants to offer the next amendment?

Do we need a next amendment? It seems fine as is.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Who wants to offer the next amendment?

Do we need a next amendment? It seems fine as is.

Tack gifted us this to play around with.

There is still the issue of material to be used that was discussed on the previous page.

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I see that the only Federalist Senator has ignored my amendment.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I see that the only Federalist Senator has ignored my amendment.

I didn't see it on my phone.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I see that the only Federalist Senator has ignored my amendment.

Many of those names were removed by Tack intentionally.

There are times I admire your dedication to the historical events, but at times I get the impression that you are just a chaotic individual playing with the red button to see if things go boom.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So I actually did give them numbers, in my notepad document, but I didn't transfer them to the amendment tracker because I hadn't verified their accuracy.

the defeated one is 29:04.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL
To clean up the Congress and make it actually serve the people

Be it enacted by the Congress of the Republic of Atlasia assembled

Section 1. Title

This legislation may be cited as the Congress Should Serve The People Act.

Section 2. Congressional Pay Reform

1. The salary for members of Congress shall be reduced from its present $174,000 per year to that of the average median income for a skilled worker. Henceforth, the salary for all members of Congress shall be $50,000 per year, adjusted annually and retroactively since 2014 to account for increases in the average median income for skilled labor in the Republic of Atlasia.

2. Henceforth, Congressional leadership shall no longer be paid a salary higher than what is paid to rank-and-file members of Congress

3. Henceforth, no Congressman shall be permitted to claim an income outside that of income earned as a Congressman, until his or her term has expired.

Section 3. The Congressional Cafeteria

1. The Congressional cafeteria shall henceforth only procure materials from worker owned and managed cooperatives. In cases where a worker owned or managed cooperative does not produce materials needed by the Congressional cafeteria, the procurement of materials must be from a company that uses union labor.

2. All renovations to the Congressional cafeteria, or to any part of the chambers of Congress, shall henceforth be made with union labor.


Section 4. Honoring the Past

1. Congress shall utilize excess funds gained as a result of the reduction in Congressional salaries to contract union sculptors to create a series of bronze busts for display in the House and Senate foyers. These busts shall honor those who fought to create this country and further expand its promises of freedom and equality, and whose philosophy, ideas and leadership have  shaped and will continue to influence Atlasian political thought.

2. The busts shall be of the following persons:

1) George Washington
2) Thomas Jefferson
3) Thomas Paine
4) Frederick Douglass
5) Harriet Tubman
6)  John Brown
7) Abraham Lincoln
Susan B. Anthony
9) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
10) Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones
11) Eugene Debs
12)  Walter Reuther
13) Cesar Chavez
14) WEB Dubois
15) Martin Luther King, Jr.
16) John Lewis
17) Nym90
18) Adam Griffin
19) AHDuke99
20)  Truman
21) Sestak
22) Windjammer
23) Blair
24) Pericles
25) PiT
26) Lumine
27) Tmthforu94
28) TJ in Cleve
29) Cris
30)  Cincinnatus
31) Dereich

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senators have 24 hours to object to the amendment. Forgot to do this last night.

[Senator-elect Spark]

No objection.

[SevenEleven]

Late to the party but who is Dereich?

[Blair]

Late to the party but who is Dereich?

I'll be corrected but I think he was a Governor/Senator back in the Imperial Dominion of South?

I think he'd left the Senate before I joined in 2015? I feel like the Bob Byrd of the senate sometimes so I can't imagine how Yankee feels.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Late to the party but who is Dereich?

I'll be corrected but I think he was a Governor/Senator back in the Imperial Dominion of South?

I think he'd left the Senate before I joined in 2015? I feel like the Bob Byrd of the senate sometimes so I can't imagine how Yankee feels.

He was Senator from the Midwest and he was "Emperor" of the Imperial Dominion of the South. The "IDS" never had this "Governor" position. Also the IDS only ever had one Regional Senator for entirety of that name and setup's existence since it began one year after I joined the Senator and was abolished one month before I left that office in March 2015.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I think he'd left the Senate before I joined in 2015?

Actually he only joined the Senate in early 2016 as the last Midwest Senator, you were Governor of Lincoln at the time I think.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Late to the party but who is Dereich?

He has managed to write in the same Laborite ex player in every election for the past six years? five years? seven years? something like that. I think it was because he lost a bet or something back in 2013.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

And yes, the amendment is adopted.

Ironically I expected more commentary about my selection of bronze.

[Continential]

Wasn't Dereich a Justice?

[Continential]

Also there is an error in Cincinnatus as you have it as Cincinattus

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Also there is an error in Cincinnatus as you have it as Cincinattus

Fixed as a typo.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Wasn't Dereich a Justice?

Yes, in 2016. After the reset.