HB 29-38: Congress Should Serve The People Act (TABLED)

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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

People's Regional Senate
Passed 3-1-1 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,

Status: Awaiting Sponsor
Sponsor: Awaiting

[Sirius_]

Section 4 be like

[Talleyrand]

I shall be opposing this bill. I do not believe $50,000 is an adequate salary for a member of congress nor do I believe we should waste money placing busts of players in the Capitol.

[Sirius_]

Amendment proposal:

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
Cool 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

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

lol @ "Cool Susan B. Anthony"

Feminism is indeed very cool!

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24 hours to object to the amendment. (sorry forgot I was doing this for this bill )

[Dr. MB]

24 hours to object to the amendment. (sorry forgot I was doing this for this bill )

If the 24 hours have been passed up you can just declare it adopted

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Sorry this slipped through. Amendment adopted.

Also, we still need a sponsor...?

[Dr. MB]

I don't support this bill. There's no valid reason for the (fake) pay cut and this bust list can get too easily corrupted by outside forces.

[SevenEleven]

Please vote this down. I honestly have no idea how it passed through the Senate.

[Talleyrand]

Motion to table.

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Do we have a second?

[Continential]

Motion to table.

I'll second this motion.

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Tabling vote opened. 72 hours.

[Continential]

Aye

[Harvey Updyke Jr🌹]

Aye to table.

[Dr. MB]

Aye

[Talleyrand]

Aye

[lfromnj]

Aye

[Joseph Cao]

Nay.

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72 hours has elapsed. The tabling motion carries, 5-1-0-3.