The 115th Congress-Washington 2017

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House Floor

Rossi: "Aye."

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

De NIeto: "Nay."

[Velahor]

House Floor
Smith: "Aye" (In a sorta unsure tone of voice)

[Chewion]

House Floor

"Aye." Before sitting down he gave Rossi a small nod.

[Vaquas]

Representative Yang: "Aye."

Representative Johnson: "Nay."

[Jovuistan]

Mullins: "Aye."

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Jamie Johnson: "NAY"

He do the smile and and the wave to Donald.

[Vaquas]

"I revise my vote to Nay."

Yang scowled.

"Slip of the tounge."

[Dentali]

"Can we read a final copy of the bill before voting?"

[Dentali]

Brennan: "Nay"

[Imperial Esplanade]

House Chamber
Freeman: "Aye."

[Prolieum]

House Floor-Chair

"The voting period is closed. The clerk shall review the count of votes."

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House Floor

Rossi, having offered a grateful smile to Yang at her vote, withdrew it at her unexpected change, and sank into her seat with Brennan's defection. She would await the count.

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House Floor-Chair

"With all votes tallied, the measure passes, to be referred to the Senate with the recommendation that it be passed."

[Dentali]

Senate Floor

Senator Fowler

"Mr. President, I would like to submit the following bill."

Official Name: UNION PENSION PROTECTION ACTNickname:UPPA

Overview: With the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or the PBGC projected to become insolvent in the next decade and require a massive bailout, substantial reform is necessary to ensure a minimal impact on the taxpayer while allowing pensioners of failing plans to be spared a total loss of benefits. Multi-employer plans must be held accountable to the same rules as single employer plans, and trustees must be held accountable for negotiating plans they have no intention or ability to fulfill, leaving the American taxpayer to pay for the pensions of their supposed beneficiaries. Plans must also have the flexibility to adjust to changing times in the case of emergencies to keep plans solvent and deliver as much benefits to pensioners as possible.

Section 1: A large and growing number of multiemployer pension plans are projected to become insolvent over the next decade, as well as the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or the PBGC which ensuring the plans. This is in large part, but not limited to, unrealistic pension plans being negotiated that trustees have no intention or ability to fulfill. Without reform the PBGC will be unable to pay promised benefits to the beneficiaries of the failed pension plans it had insured. Without altering the rules regarding multiemployer pension plans and the PBGC’s rules regarding such plans, millions of workers will lose pensions and taxpayers will have to fund a massive bailout.

Section 2: Upon the agreement of the trustees involved in negotiating a pension plan, the pension plan may be renegotiated the PBGC determines the existing plan is headed to insolvency.

Section 3: Trustees will be given the authority to amend benefit accruals, benefit qualifications, freezing benefit accruals, reducing benefits, and changing the retirement age for individuals more than 10 years away from retirement upon approval from the PBGC. Benefit reduction authority currently held in MPRA will be extended to multi-employer pension plans approved by the PBGC.

Section 4: With this increase in authority for plan trustees will consequences for fraudulent activity. Courts can now hold plan all trustees personally and corporately liable for the debts of the plans they administer, not just select corporate officers.

Section 5: Multi-Employer pension plans will no longer be able to set their own interest rates and mortality rates. Instead they must use the same rates as single employer plans established by the PBGC. (The single employers plans have not had the same sort of financial issues the multi-employer plans have)

Section 6: Risk-based premiums will be established for multi-employer plans, as evaluated by the PBGC. Financially solvent plans will be charged lower premiums and plans that are more likely to face insolvency will have larger premiums.




This bill is then honorably presented to The Senate for consideration in order to reform the PBGC and to improve the United States Law and is backed by Senator Zachary Fowler on January 3rd, 2017.

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House Floor

Rossi slid down in sheer relief, running her hand through her hair, a wide smile splitting her face from ear to ear. She gave a deep, happy sigh, and smiled again, almost feeling like laughing. It had made it.

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House Floor-Chair

"This House will move along the docket and take up the Fairness in Wages Act. The Chair invites the Representative from Massachusetts to lay out the bill."

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

"Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit the following bill for future consideration."

Official Name: Translator Immigration ServiceNickname: TIS

Overview: Overview: Recognizing the invaluable service that translators and guides provided for the United States during its numerous conflicts throughout the Middle East, and also recognizing that the efforts of the United States of America would have been greatly hampered without the service of these brave men and women. Further recognizing the large stigma that these individuals face at a daily basis in their countries for their invaluable service. This bill seeks to grant any foreign nationals who previously served as interpreters in the service in the United States Armed Forces or the United States government legal residence in the United States.

Section 1: Recognizes the heroic services that were performed by the interpreters over the course of the numerous conflicts as heroic and deserving of praise from the United States with the United States government officially recognizing accomplishments of the men and women who had to perform this task

Section 2: A new class of Visa, to be termed the class Z-1 is to be created.
Section 2a: The only eligible individuals of this visa will be translators who can produce written proof from a United States government organization, about their translation services
Section 2b: Holders of the Z-1 visa shall be granted priority screening and clearance for entry into the United States
Section 2c: Holders of the Z-1 visa will be eligible to apply to bring their family to the United States under a class Z-2 class Visa
Section 2d: All those who wish to apply for the Z-1 class Visa may do so at their nearest US consulate or embassy, or their websites
Section 2e: The Visa may be applied for using...
i) Paper form which is to be provided at the consulate or embassy which is to be accompanied with proof of service
ii) Electronic form which is to be made available on the US immigration website with a photocopy of their documentation of service emailed
Section 2f: No applicant of the Z-1 class Visa is to wait longer than a period of 8 months before either being denied or approved for the Visa
Section 2g: Border security officials are to treat holders of the Z-1 class Visas with extra dignity and respect due to their invaluable efforts while under the employ of the United States government

Section 3:A new class of Visa to be termed the class Z-2 is to be created
Section 3a: The only eligible individuals of this visa will be the immediate family of a Z-1 class holder
Section 3b: Holders of the Z-2 visa shall be granted priority screening and clearance for entry into the United States
Section 3c: Holders of the Z-2 visa MUST have the explicit permission of a Z-1 class holder, written or otherwise, for their application
Section 3d: Holders of the Z-2 visa MUST be accompanied by the Z-1 class individual during entry into the United States, otherwise that is grounds for removal from the territory of the United States of America
Section 3e: All those who wish to apply for the Z-1 class Visa may do so at their nearest US consulate or embassy, or their websites
Section 3f: The Visa may only be applied IN PERSON at a US consulate or embassy while under the company of a person who has already has been granted a class Z-1 visa
Section 3g: No applicant of the Z-2 class Visa is to wait longer than a period of 8 months before either being approved or denied for the Visa

Section 4: Any persons who were found to be formerly under or currently under the employ of terrorist organization renounce all rights to the class Z-1 visa, and the Z-1 visa rendered void if already issued
Section 4a: The United States government is obliged to contact the individual in the case of a the cancellation of their Visa, 72 hours before the individual plans to leave for the United States

Section 5: The same termination conditions outlined in Section 4 for Z-1 class Visa will apply to the Z-2 class Visa
Section 5a: If Z-1 class visa is declared void the Z-2 class visa will also be declared void with a mandatory 72 hours before the individual plans to leave for the United States

Section 6: The counterfeiting of the Z class Visa is to be considered a federal felony, punishable with a 50000 United States Dollar fine or a jail sentence no longer than 20 years.

This bill is then honorably presented to (Insert which house) for consideration in order to help those who sacrificed a lot in their role as interpreters by giving them their rightful reward to improve the United States Law and is backed by Rep. De Nieto on January 3rd 2017

[Vaquas]

House Floor

"Mr. Speaker I wish to add the following legislation to the docket."

Official Name: Childsafe Automobile Regulation Act of 2017
Nickname: CAR Act

Overview: Aims to limit the number of child deaths via negligence involving hot cars by mandating that automotive companies include a visual and auditory alert system in all vehicle models, which alerts drivers to remind them to check their back seats.

Section 1a: Noting that 701 Children have died from heat stroke due to being left in a hot and unattended vehicle since 1998.

Section 1b: Recognizing that the loss of 701 innocent lives due to entirely preventable circumstances is totally unacceptable.

Section 2: Hereby mandates that all models of automobile which contain rear designated seating positions (to be referred to as "backseats") will be equipped with auditory and visual systems that will alert and remind the driver of said automobile to the presence of the child in the backseat.

Section 2b: Hereby delegates the responsibility to carry out and implement this mandate to the United States Secretary of Transportation.

Section 2c: Hereby mandates that this law is to enter full effect January 1, 2018

This bill is then honorably presented to The United States House of Representatives for consideration in order to protect the lives of innocent children to improve the United States Law and is backed by Representative Amelia Yang on January 3, 2017

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House Floor

Henry rose from his seat.

"Mr. Speaker, fellow Representatives, currently all over this nation people face poverty because of low, starvation wages. People work day and night to provide money for their families and in many cases still struggle financially. They have two take up multiple jobs to support themselves and their loved ones. The race to the bottom is still ongoing and wealth and income inequality are getting bigger and bigger as the time goes on. fOr the first time in history young people face the possibility of earning less than their parents. This bill aims to adress these problems."

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Brankers: "I have a question for Sen. Kingston, how would he ensure that this bill is compatible with religious freedom?"

Senate Floor
John Kingston

"Mr. President, Senator Brankers, this bill does not infringe on anyone's right to excersise religion or express any religious beliefs. What it does is it simply limits certain practices or their advertisement, for example, the so-called Conversion Therapy which have been proven to be harmful. It also gives certain rights that people outside of the LGBTQ+ community have had and still have to this day. I am sure that this piece of legislation is, indeed, compatible with religious freedom."

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House Floor-Chair

"The questioning period is open."

[Dentali]

House Floor-Chair

"The questioning period is open."

Brennan:
"What do you have to say about the many studies that say the job loss that accompanies a minimum wage hike accounts for a net loss in wages for low income workers?"

[Alozia]

House Floor

"Mr. Speaker, Representative Brennan, in context of this bill I do not think that the proposed minimum wage increase would result in a loss in wages for low income workers."

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Senate Floor

"Mr. President, Senator, my question?" Hazelelponi prompted.

[Dentali]

House Floor

"Mr. Speaker, Representative Brennan, in context of this bill I do not think that the proposed minimum wage increase would result in a loss in wages for low income workers."

"You think? Did you do any exploratory studies as to the impact of such a wage increase?" Brennan said annoyed