Land of The Free: American Political Roleplay (OOC IV)

[Agarntrop]

Protecting the Republic from Objectionable Technological Espionage and Communist Tampering Act
PROTECT Act

Senate Sponsor: Barry Anderson (R-MO)
House Sponsor: John Logan Ruler (R-IA)

Senate Co-sponsors: Augusta Merriam (R-NH)
House Co-sponsors: Dr. Katherine Edwards (R-GA), Caroline Simone (D-NY), Earl Tenson (R-MT)

AN ACT TO prevent espionage and tampering orchestrated by the People's Republic of China against the United States; impose sanctions against those responsible for acts of espionage; impose criminal penalties for domestic actors; and for related purposes.


Section 1 - Short Title
This bill may be cited as the "Protecting the Republic from Objectionable Technological Espionage and Communist Tampering Act of 2019."

Section 2 - Sanctions

1. The President is authorised to impose sanctions against individuals within the People's Republic of China responsible for acts of digital espionage or whom otherwise according to his determination pose a significant threat to the digital infrastructure or national security of the United States.
2. The President is authorised to impose sanctions against individuals or corporations within the People's Republic of China or outside of the People's Republic of China who have assisted the Communist Party of China's efforts to gather digital or other intellegence regarding its citizens or citizens of the United States.
3. The President is authorised to impose sanctions against individuals or corporations within the People's Republic of China or outside of the People's Republic of China who have colluded with the violations of basic human rights by the Chinese Communist Party, including efforts to forcibly remove the Uyghur muslim population from the province of Xinjiang and forcibly remove the Buddhist population from the province of Tibet.

Section 3 - Offences

1. It shall be an offence for any person to knowlingly or neglectfully allow the personal information of a citizen of the United States to be stored by a hostile foreign power.
2. An individual guilty of an offence under Section 3.1 shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or fined under Title 18 of the U.S. Code, or both; or, if the personal information is stored by an exceptionally hostile foreign power or is stored without the consent or knowledge of its original owner, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or fined under Title 18 of the U.S. Code, or both.
3. A corporation guilty of an offence under Section 3.1 shall be fined not more than $45,000,000; or, if the personal information is stored by an exceptionally hostile foreign power or is stored without the consent or knowledge of its original owner, shall be fined not more than $95,000,000.

Section 4 - Definitions

1. The term "hostile foreign power" shall be defined by the Secretary of State.
2. The term "exceptionally hostile foreign power" shall be defined by the Secretary of State and shall include the People's Republic of China.
3. The term "personal information" shall mean any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother's maiden name, or biometric records; and any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information.

Section 5 - Misc.
This Act supersedes all prior contradictory legislation, excluding the US constiution.

This bill is then honorably presented to the US Senate for consideration in order to prevent the storage of personal information and espionage by foreign hostile powers, specifically the People's Republic of China to improve the United States Law and is backed by Sen. Barry Anderson (R-MO) on (date tbc)

Do Not Remove: 1337

Any cosponsors?

Main man Jason will.


Vel, I'll respond to Paulson shortly, I've been swamped by my siblings.

The SD guy yeah?

[Agarntrop]

When are we gonna see Callahan's sister/wife?

[Sanabel]

When are we gonna see Callahan's sister/wife?

Later...

[Kargintina the Third]

When are we gonna see Callahan's sister/wife?

Those are the same

[Graintfjall]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Graintfjall
Character Name: Emilia Reynolds
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 40
Character Height: 5'3"
Character Weight: I don't get why this is a thing. Let's say 120.
Character Position/Role/Job: Representative for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District
Appearance:

(Image)

Character State of Origin: Colorado
Character State of Residence: Colorado
Character Party Affiliation: Democratic
Main Strengths/Weaknesses: Telegenic young woman, and thus not lacking opportunities for rent-a-quote media appearances disproportionate to her minimal legislative accomplishments (renaming two post offices, not exactly the stuff serious political careers are made of) ... and thus taken seriously by precisely no one. Tiny bit of bipartisan appeal having been a rare Democrat to have worked with the Liberty Caucus ... but that bipartisan appeal is something that about three-and-a-half DC policy wonks care about, and literally no one else: too far to the right for the progressives in her party (ridiculed as the "Congresswoman for Tel Aviv" by her DSA primary challenger), too orthodox Democrat for anyone else, leaving her with little influence. Impressed gun-owners by campaigning as a fellow gun-owner who grew up hunting in the Colorado mountains ... immediately disappointed gun-owners by voting the party line on gun control at every turn. Personally wealthy ... because everyone just loves that, right. Accomplished guitarist ... also plays the banjo.
Biography: Emilia Palledino grew up in an upper middle class household in Boulder, Colorado. She has subsequently attempted to build a certain log-cabin mythos, hunting in the mountains and such, but it was really a sheltered existence of enviable comfort and financial security, complete with private school and skiing lessons. An interest in finance and economics was sparked by the Asian financial crisis of 1997, and she pursued that interest on to college at Stanford, where she majored in economics. During college she interned at Goldman Sachs, and after graduation was recruited to JP Morgan Chase. While working for them, she married Jason Reynolds.

Over the next nine years she worked in the investment banking and then private equity divisions of JP Morgan Chase and Nomura, in New York, San Francisco, Buenos Aires and São Paulo, before returning to her native Colorado to join hedge fund Markhor Capital. She remained with Markhor for two more years before stepping down to begin her political career, going from the world of high finance to the Colorado General Assembly House of Representatives, where she chaired a sanitation subcommittee and was mainly known for her advocacy of zoning reform. After a single term, she entered the primary for the newly vacant 2nd Congressional seat. She was dogged by questions about her inexperience, which she was rather grateful for as they distracted from more probing questions about what she had been doing at the height of the financial crisis, but navigated a crowded field of candidates as a relatively moderate candidate with polished media skills and an expensive staff including some experienced Beltway operatives. She won a decisive victory in the 2016 general.

In office, Emilia was an outspoken opponent of President Wolf's agenda and a largely loyal Democrat. Despised on the right (and by some on the left) as one of the faces of liberal feminism, she was a dogged advocate of reproductive rights (though achieved no noticeable legislative successes in this, or any other, policy area). She chaired the Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access. A hardliner on the question of Israel, she consistently co-sponsored anti-BDS bills. She earned minor ignominy for what was perceived as a flippant response to a constituent asking on Twitter about support for veteran services, but it did not seriously harm her reelection chances in the 2018 blue wave, and increased her majority.

Other Info: Trilingual (English, Spanish, Portuguese). Closeted atheist. Married with two stepkids and one of her own.

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Graintfjall

Do Not Remove: 84721

I understand this contains several massive red flags especially given my account age, so I'm willing to rewrite (or start from scratch) according to feedback.

Bump.

[Agarntrop]

When are we gonna see Callahan's sister/wife?

Those are the same

Exactly

[Meelducan]

I understand this contains several massive red flags especially given my account age, so I'm willing to rewrite (or start from scratch) according to feedback.

Bump.

Will review when I’m driving my semi truck later

[Meelducan]

Vote now or I will implicate all of you in war crimes committed in The Yugoslav wars

[Lavan Tiri]

Main man Jason will.


Vel, I'll respond to Paulson shortly, I've been swamped by my siblings.

The SD guy yeah?

Da comrade

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

Vote now or I will implicate all of you in war crimes committed in The Yugoslav wars

I’m already a wanted fugitive for Interpol & Mossad, I am exiled in Paraguay for my involvement in several Bosnian atrocities

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

Vote now or I will implicate all of you in war crimes committed in The Yugoslav wars

I’m already a wanted fugitive for Interpol & Mossad, I am exiled in Paraguay for my involvement in several Bosnian atrocities

Why Paraguay

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

I’m already a wanted fugitive for Interpol & Mossad, I am exiled in Paraguay for my involvement in several Bosnian atrocities

Why Paraguay

For Iguaçu, of course.

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

I’m already a wanted fugitive for Interpol & Mossad, I am exiled in Paraguay for my involvement in several Bosnian atrocities

Why Paraguay

Human trafficking and drug smuggling, easy spot to hide and bribe

[Latvijas Otra Republika]

VOLKER

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Do the candidates get to vote for themselves or is it like the Senate confirmations where they're expected to vote Present on themselves?

[Sarenium]

Do the candidates get to vote for themselves or is it like the Senate confirmations where they're expected to vote Present on themselves?

i'll count your vote for yourself xx

[Dentali]

ANNOUNCEMENT


I will not reveal how much money was raised by individual candidates these 2 months, however I will say the Republicans drastically outperformed the democrats in terms of number of events. The fundraising is not solely based on frequency of events however it is a factor, and enough of one to have made the total fundraising numbers enough to raise alarm bells with Democrats. Anyone in Democratic leadership would probably get a briefing on anemic fundraising numbers in July and August.

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

ANNOUNCEMENT


I will not reveal how much money was raised by individual candidates these 2 months, however I will say the Republicans drastically outperformed the democrats in terms of number of events. The fundraising is not solely based on frequency of events however it is a factor, and enough of one to have made the total fundraising numbers enough to raise alarm bells with Democrats. Anyone in Democratic leadership would probably get a briefing on anemic fundraising numbers in July and August.

Well, given the fact that the GOP have four incredibly active candidates compared to the Democratic side having far less activity despite more candidates, I'm not surprised at all.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

ANNOUNCEMENT


I will not reveal how much money was raised by individual candidates these 2 months, however I will say the Republicans drastically outperformed the democrats in terms of number of events. The fundraising is not solely based on frequency of events however it is a factor, and enough of one to have made the total fundraising numbers enough to raise alarm bells with Democrats. Anyone in Democratic leadership would probably get a briefing on anemic fundraising numbers in July and August.

Well, given the fact that the GOP have four incredibly active candidates compared to the Democratic side having far less activity despite more candidates, I'm not surprised at all.

Might do a surrogate event for Goldman for Dayton/a downballot candidate, if need be.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Well, given the fact that the GOP have four incredibly active candidates compared to the Democratic side having far less activity despite more candidates, I'm not surprised at all.

Might do a surrogate event for Goldman for Dayton/a downballot candidate, if need be.

Goldman should shoot Michelle Williams from the 6th floor of the Trump Tower.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Might do a surrogate event for Goldman for Dayton/a downballot candidate, if need be.

Goldman should shoot Michelle Williams from the 6th floor of the Trump Tower.

Do you mean Tracey Williams or is there a character not on the wiki that you're referring to? I mean, if it's the former, it makes sense, just clarifying.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Goldman should shoot Michelle Williams from the 6th floor of the Trump Tower.

Do you mean Tracey Williams or is there a character not on the wiki that you're referring to? I mean, if it's the former, it makes sense, just clarifying.

It's Tracey, I don't know why I keep calling her Michelle.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Do you mean Tracey Williams or is there a character not on the wiki that you're referring to? I mean, if it's the former, it makes sense, just clarifying.

It's Tracey, I don't know why I keep calling her Michelle.

Actually Goldman is probably better off trying to rally the establishment into defending Simone and doing fundraising for Dayton and downballot candidates, now that I realise it...

[Bruke]

Ah, someone brought up Tammany Hall again... but silly Tenson forgets Tammany went away decades ago and Simone wasn’t part of it.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Aww that was a nice Prendy post.

Aww that was a nice Prendy post.

Yo what the fuck that made me like Prendergast.

Aww that was a nice Prendy post.

Super wholesome post <3

I keep telling y'all he's grown a conscience.