NSG Senate Chamber [NSG Senate] - Version 3

[Byzantium Imperial]

id like to switch my vote on NPWWA from nay to aye

[Senate President pro Tempore]

NPSEA: Nay
COPA: Aye
LTPA:Aye
APF:Aye
APA:Nay
NPWWA:Aye
NFSA:Abstain

LPA Vote???

Senators, I urge you to make sure you have voted on ALL bills before voting, unless you purposely choose to not vote (in which I ask you to state so). This has happened numerous times in just this voting period.

[Prussia-Steinbach]

NPSEA: Nay
COPA: Nay
LTPA: Nay
APF: Nay
APA: Nay
NPWWA: Yea
NFSA: Yea

LPA Vote?????

Sorry, copied format from voter prior to me.

LPA: Yea

[Senate President pro Tempore]

LPA Vote?????

Sorry, copied format from voter prior to me.

LPA: Yea

Thank you.

[Beta Test]

I would like to change my abstention on NPWWA to an AYE

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Current Vote Count on the Environment & Energy Category

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Began: 1:47 PM Sat Aug 10, 2013; EDT (UTC -4 | New York City)
Ends: 1:47 PM Mon Aug 12, 2013; EDT (UTC -4 | New York City)
World Clock

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NPSEA
21 for
7 against
2 abstain

COPA
21 for
6 against
3 abstain

LTPA
21 for
8 against
1 abstain

APF
21 for
9 against
0 abstain

APA
18 for
10 against
1 abstain

NPWWA
15 for
7 against
8 abstain

LPA: 1 unclear vote by National Empire
20 for
8 against
3 abstain

NFSA
20 for
6 against
4 abstain

[Lamaredia]

NPSEA: AYE

COPA: AYE

LTPA: ABSTAIN

APF: AYE

APA: AYE

NPWWA: ABSTAIN

LPA: ABSTAIN

NFSA: ABSTAIN

[National Empire]

I vote aye on LPA. Somehow I missed that one.

[Lamaredia]

I would like to change my vote on NPSEA to NAY, and for my votes on NFSA and NPWWA to AYE!

[Free South Califas]

You are correct, I forgot to change the days. I will change them.

However, you are wrong about the times. Look at this post:

viewtopic.php?p=16023757#p16023757

We are not regulating UTC. Last vote counter, we did PDT. As long as we state the time zone, it should be all right.

And UTC isn't the right time zone anyway, that would be CET. Please stick to your guns on this, or at least use CET so it makes any sense. I'm pretty sure not all of us are from London either. (ETA: I guess 'UTC - x' is fair enough but this OOC wankery won't be enforced on me, at least.)

Edit after seeing your post: I'm American, so I know what EDT is, but those joining us from other parts of the world may not, so it might be nice to put "EDT (UTC-4) instead of just EDT (New York).

Another round of this, and in the Chamber no less? He gave a link to a world clock. If you want to do it differently, you should help count the vote.

I would like to change my vote on the Animal Protection Act from an Aye to an Abstain.

One further point on that act is, it legalizes hunting yet makes accidentally killing and animal a crime. Where is the common sense and the consistency.

One more. One more. Just one more. Just a little bit. Just a tiny bit more. I'll just have this one comment in the Chamber during voting and then I'll go. Oh, and one more thing...how about you take your comments to the Lobby? By the way, you're complicit in the text of the APA, as the entire Senate has been explicitly asked for suggestions for the last 2 days after having 2 additional days to debate it.

[Bleckonia]

I change my vote on ApA from a nay to an aye because it allows animal testing.

[The Nihilistic view]

You are correct, I forgot to change the days. I will change them.

However, you are wrong about the times. Look at this post:

viewtopic.php?p=16023757#p16023757

We are not regulating UTC. Last vote counter, we did PDT. As long as we state the time zone, it should be all right.

And UTC isn't the right time zone anyway, that would be CET. Please stick to your guns on this, or at least use CET so it makes any sense. I'm pretty sure not all of us are from London either. (ETA: I guess 'UTC - x' is fair enough but this OOC wankery won't be enforced on me, at least.)

Edit after seeing your post: I'm American, so I know what EDT is, but those joining us from other parts of the world may not, so it might be nice to put "EDT (UTC-4) instead of just EDT (New York).

Another round of this, and in the Chamber no less? He gave a link to a world clock. If you want to do it differently, you should help count the vote.

One further point on that act is, it legalizes hunting yet makes accidentally killing and animal a crime. Where is the common sense and the consistency.

One more. One more. Just one more. Just a little bit. Just a tiny bit more. I'll just have this one comment in the Chamber during voting and then I'll go. Oh, and one more thing...how about you take your comments to the Lobby? By the way, you're complicit in the text of the APA, as the entire Senate has been explicitly asked for suggestions for the last 2 days after having 2 additional days to debate it.

I'm sorry FSC, of course how selfish of me I should have put my life on hold for a week so I could have been totally through with the bills. I shall in future endevour to stay glued to my keyboard 24/7 to make sure I can do an in depth critique of every word of every bill voted on in future.

[New Zepuha]

NPSEA: Nay

COPA: Yea

LTPA: Yea

APF: Abstain

APA: Yea

NPWWA: Yea

LPA: Yea

NFSA: Yea

[Ainin]

I would like to change my vote on NPSEA to NAY, and for my votes on NFSA and NPWWA to AYE!

...initially from?

[Lamaredia]

I would like to change my vote on NPSEA to NAY, and for my votes on NFSA and NPWWA to AYE!

...initially from?

Aye on NPSEA, and Abstain on NFSA and NPWWA were the original ones.

[New Bierstaat]

This bill has enough sponsors to be added to the queue.

Ferry Transit Act
Author: New Bierstaat (LC - 171)
Co-Sponsors: Belmaria (LC), Grand Republic of Hannover (NL), Maklohi Vai (LD - 189), Venelaria (RG - 375), Beta Test (LD - 126)
Urgency: Low
Category: Domestic Development

The Senate of Aurentina,

REALIZING that Aurentina's non-compact shape renders many areas close together but difficult to traverse between due to bodies of water being in the way,

HAVING CALCULATED that ferry transit between some of these cities would be fairly cheap and help in the transit of people, vehicles, and goods between said cities,

SEEING the benefit of government revenue from such a transit establishment,

ENACTS the following:

1. The Aurentine Ferry Commission (AFC) is hereby established. 
2. Authority is given to the Ministry of Transportation to oversee the AFC.
3. The Ministry of Transportation will have authority to assign parts of numbered routes to ferry routes to assist with continuity of such routes when this is prudent and necessary. 
4. The AFC will determine all ferry routes, times and frequency of service, and fares. 
5. Fares must be reasonable and must cost no more than £0.30 per kilometer traveled.
6. The AFC's authority to determine fares will be subject to the Ministry of Transportation and the courts.

7. Private corporations will be allowed to operate ferry routes in Aurentine waters subject to all relevant legislation. 
8. Nothing in this bill will be interpreted to allow the abolishment of the private ferry industry.

[Phocidaea]

Wow, there's still a little time left for a vote! Damned Alaskan time, screwing me up.
NPSEA: Aye
COPA: Abstain - why cork oaks, of all things?
LTPA: Aye
APF: Aye (but it sounds like a twelve-year-old came up with the higher ranks)
APA: Nay. It only excuses "members of the insect kingdom" which is taxonomically flawed both in practical application and from a pedantic viewpoint. Insecta is not a kingdom, and it only contains insects, and thus any other invertebrate is still legally an "animal" under this act. Really, Mr. Califas, I do recommend you return to a secondary school and take a course on biology. I apologize for shouting in the chamber, but I would like to request that any senator reading this before the deadline reconsider their vote in light of it, lest we turn into a Jainist theocracy by accident.
NPWWA: Aye
LPA: Nay. You do realize this renders illegal dropping trash on the floor of your own home, even if you are going to throw it out later?
NFSA: Aye

[The Nihilistic view]

Wow, there's still a little time left for a vote! Damned Alaskan time, screwing me up.
NPSEA: Aye
COPA: Abstain - why cork oaks, of all things?
LTPA: Aye
APF: Aye (but it sounds like a twelve-year-old came up with the higher ranks)
APA: Nay. It only excuses "members of the insect kingdom" which is taxonomically flawed both in practical application and from a pedantic viewpoint. Insecta is not a kingdom, and it only contains insects, and thus any other invertebrate is still legally an "animal" under this act. Really, Mr. Califas, I do recommend you return to a secondary school and take a course on biology. I apologize for shouting in the chamber, but I would like to request that any senator reading this before the deadline reconsider their vote in light of it, lest we turn into a Jainist theocracy by accident.
NPWWA: Aye
LPA: Nay. You do realize this renders illegal dropping trash on the floor of your own home, even if you are going to throw it out later?
NFSA: Aye

You do realize this renders illegal dropping trash on the floor of your own home, even if you are going to throw it out later?

That is a good point, how am I supposed to fit a washing machine in my waste bin before I go to the dump?

[New Bierstaat]

In light of Senator Phocidaea's comment and as a scientist myself, I must also change my vote on the APA from YES to NO. I am not opposed to the overall purpose of the bill, but it includes text that is not scientifically correct.

[Venaleria]

Wow, there's still a little time left for a vote! Damned Alaskan time, screwing me up.
NPSEA: Aye
COPA: Abstain - why cork oaks, of all things?
LTPA: Aye
APF: Aye (but it sounds like a twelve-year-old came up with the higher ranks)
APA: Nay. It only excuses "members of the insect kingdom" which is taxonomically flawed both in practical application and from a pedantic viewpoint. Insecta is not a kingdom, and it only contains insects, and thus any other invertebrate is still legally an "animal" under this act. Really, Mr. Califas, I do recommend you return to a secondary school and take a course on biology. I apologize for shouting in the chamber, but I would like to request that any senator reading this before the deadline reconsider their vote in light of it, lest we turn into a Jainist theocracy by accident.
NPWWA: Aye
LPA: Nay. You do realize this renders illegal dropping trash on the floor of your own home, even if you are going to throw it out later?
NFSA: Aye

You do realize this renders illegal dropping trash on the floor of your own home, even if you are going to throw it out later?

That is a good point, how am I supposed to fit a washing machine in my waste bin before I go to the dump?

2nd time I've had to say this to you.

Lobby....

A new vote count will be up shortly.

[HumanSanity]

Senator Callaghan, upon hearing the bells calling for a vote, arrived at the floor.

Senator Callaghan of the 82nd District of Aurentina casts his vote on the National Park Service Establishment Act as AYE

Senator Callaghan votes AYE on the Cork Oak Preservation Act.

Senator Callaghan votes AYE on the Loggerhead Turtle Protection Act.

Senator Callaghan votes AYE on the establishment of the Animal Protection Force.

Senator Callaghan votes NAY on the Animal Protection Act.

Senator Callaghan votes AYE on the National Preservation of Wilderness and Wildlife Act.

Senator Callaghan votes AYE on the Littering Prevention Act.

Senator Callaghan votes NAY on the National Forestry Services Act.

[Deutsche Demokratische Republik]

NPSEA: Aye.
COPA: Aye
LTPA: Aye
APF: Aye
APA: Aye.
NPWWA: Nay.
LPA: Aye.
NFSA: Aye.

[Free South Califas]

If I might trouble this august chamber, could Mr. President pro tempore do the honor of adding this to the Senate Procedures queue, and putting the first amendment before it when it's posted if it hasn't been already?

Second Amendment to SIMBEDS
viewtopic.php?p=16038204#p16038204

[United Provinces of Atlantica]

NPSEA: Aye
COPA: Aye
LTPA: Aye
APF: Aye
APA: Aye
NPWWA: Nay
LPA: Aye
NFSA: Aye

[Angleter]

I, Macedonian Grand Empire, give Angleter permission to vote on my behalf for 3 weeks.

And thus:

NPSEA - Abstain
COPA - Abstain
LTPA - Abstain
APF - Nay
APA - Nay
NPWWA - Nay
LPA - Abstain
NFSA - Aye