The STV Congress--Congress Chamber! QUORUM CALL!!!!

[Zeke Zabertini]

Zeke sighs. "Please, Sir, we have quorum. Let's just vote on the legislation and get it over with."

[Puck]

Aye


*Votes Aye so that they can move on.*

[Republican_Man]

"Very well. The motion passes. Onto the vote on the legislation. After the vote, we will take motions, and then commence the Congressional Spring Vacation, which will last for one week."

The Speaker votes Nay on the legislation.

[lionhead]

*wakes up again in shock*


"A week!? Spring vaction? Its spring already?"

*Checks watch, sits up straight. Grabs a pen and starts writing. After writing a whole page he passes on the note too a messenger who runs out of the congress hall, the building and sprints too the White house down on 42th street. He gives the note too the Representative of the President of the United States. He is scared *beep* when he reads it and sprints too the elevator, takes it down to level -15 where he enters a very old room and there opens up a big safe and brings out a huge storage tank. He opens it and a man in a suit who looks exactly like the president steps out of it. He gets the Note handed over and reads it. Then he goes up the leevator along with the representative and enters the room where the current President is sitting, totally in Coma. The old one gets dragged away down the elevator again and the new one sits down.* (don't ask me why i had too do that, i'm just a caretaker from Holland)

[Republican_Man]

((I'm going away for a week, and have to be here for the proceedings, and the US Congress is on their "Easter Vacation." To actually AVOID offending you all, I'm calling it "Spring Vacation." Now, please, vote.))

[Zeke Zabertini]

Congressman Zabertini has decided that the GWP is inherantly flawed, and places a vote of nay.

[Republican_Man]

The Speaker read the vote on his datapad and smiled to himself.

[LightningBoy]

Congressman Moritz votes Nay on the legislation as well.

[Republican_Man]

"It is time for quorum. I apologize for having to do this now, but we do not have more time. The vote is 0 Yeas to 3 Nays. Therefore, the legislation fails. I am now open to motions."

[Zeke Zabertini]

Zeke stands. "Point of order, Mister Speaker. We do not have quorum on the vote."

[Republican_Man]

[Zeke Zabertini]

Zeke checks his datapad for the list of congress members. "According to my count, there are eighteen members in this congress. Quorum requires a majority of the congress for a vote on legislation for the vote to be valid. Right now, that is ten voting or actively abstaining members. We have three so far. There can be no valid vote until quorum is reached."

[Republican_Man]

"You are right, Congressman. I was only looking at time. Therefore, the vote may continue throughout the week, but the end of this session will not end until next Sunday, when the bill will pass or fail. You may vote when you can, and then leave if you have. Report back here on Sunday. I apologize for the inconvenience." He banged his gavel.

((What I'm saying is that because I have to be here when we end and start a new session, you can vote throughout this week ("Spring Vacation"), but do nothing more than that. Next Sunday I will end the session.))

[Seven of Nine]

Congresswoman Matzk is abstaining, because the vote doesn't apply to her area and it would be unfair for her to vote on it.

[Republican_Man]

((Whoa, this is down here! Well, okay. It's barely been active. But that will change. Your votes MUST be made by tomorrow, or they will not be counted. We HAVE to move on. I apologize.))

[Zeke Zabertini]

Yeah, we need more posters. And you need to remove the inactive ones so we don't have to wait so long for quorum.

[Republican_Man]

((I'm going to PM everyone. I will stop the vote tomorrow, go to a 2-day long recess to get people back, and then get back to legislation.))

[lionhead]

[Jeremy]

(Probably that it is not top of the page.)

[Republican_Man]

"I apologize, but this must come to an end. This legislation hereby fails. Are there any motions on the floor?"

[lionhead]

the legislation fails? what is that all about?

[Zeke Zabertini]

Zeke stands. "Mister Speaker, you cannot simply override the rules of our proceedings autonomously. Unless you're going to remove all our inactive members, there is no quorum." He continues. "I suggest that you remove those who do not participate here from membership in the Congress to resolve this issue. The only other solution is to propose an amendment to the rules of quorum in the Congress."

[lionhead]

Why don't we make the entire system more simple?

Just basics:

1.some one proposes a motion.
2. A congressman/woman from a diffrent party Seconds the motion
3. Motion gets on the floor
4. everybody in favor fo the motion votes Aye, everybody against it votes Nay.
5. Next motion.


*Any congressman can propose a motion.
*when a motion is seconded no other motions can be proposed.
*When a motion is not yet seconded other motion can be proposed
*the first motion to get seconded will go on the floor.
*If there are too few votes on a motion on the floor the Congress leader will allow the beginner of the motion too a speech and questions can be asked untill all or a given number of votes are placed (given number by the Congress leader who would surely understand the reason of that).

Perhaps this way people will actually look at this topic and vote.

Just a thought.

[Link, the Hero of Time]

*Runs in*

"so... *Takes a second to catch his breath* sorry, congressmen, I've been severely ill for the past week and a half"

"I vote Aye on the bill"

[Republican_Man]