FLAMES OF LIBERTY (1960 Alt-History American Political RP)

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Official Name: The Agency Audit Act of 1960

Nickname: The AAA

Overview: A bill to ensure that every major agency of the Federal Government undergoes and passes a clean audit opinion on its financial statements.

Sponsor: Rep. Thomas C. Byrne [D-NY-7]
Co-Sponsors: (Here is where you put who else supports the bill, do an OOC poll to figure out what other chars would like to hop on!)

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Section 1: FINDINGS

(a) The Congress finds the following:

(1) General management functions of the Bureau of the Budget need to be significantly enhanced to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal Government;

(2) Financial management functions of the Bureau of the Budget need to be significantly enhanced to provide overall direction and leadership in the development of a modern federal financial management structure and associated systems;

(3) Billions of dollars are lost each year through fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement among the hundreds of programs in the Federal Government;

(4) These losses could be significantly decreased by improved management, including improved central coordination of internal controls and financial accounting;

(5) The Federal Government is in great need of fundamental reform in financial management requirements and practices as financial management systems are obsolete and inefficient, and do not provide complete, consistent, reliable, and timely information;

(6) Current financial reporting practices of the Federal Government do not accurately disclose the current and probable future cost of operating and investment decisions, including the future need for cash or other resources, do not permit adequate comparison of actual costs among executive agencies, and do not provide the timely information required for efficient management of programs.

(b) The purposes of this Act are the following:

(1) Bring more effective general and financial management practices to the Federal Government through statutory provisions which would establish in the Bureau of the Budget a Deputy Director for Management, establish an Office of Federal Financial Management headed by a Controller, and designate a Chief Financial Officer in each executive department and in each major agency of the Federal Government;

(2) Provide for improvement, in each agency, of systems of accounting, financial management, and internal controls to assure the issuance of reliable financial information and to deter fraud, waste, and abuse of Government resources;

(3) Provide for the production of complete, reliable, consistent and timely financial information for use by the executive branch and the Congress in the financing, management, and evaluation of Federal programs;

(4) Recover amounts, for the purposes of deficit reduction, from the Department of Defense should it fail to achieve an unqualified opinion on its full financial statement by the Bureau of the Budget.

Section 2: ESTABLISHMENT OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS

(a) The Bureau henceforth shall have a Director for Management appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Deputy Director for Management shall be the chief official responsible for financial management in the United States Government;

(b) FUNCTIONS OF DIRECTOR FOR MANAGEMENT—. The Director for Management shall establish governmentwide financial management policies for executive agencies and shall perform the following financial management functions:

(1) Perform all functions, including all functions delegated by the President, relating to financial management.

(2) Provide overall direction and leadership to the executive branch on financial management matters by establishing financial management policies and requirements, and by monitoring the establishment and operation of Federal Government financial management systems.

(3) Review agency budget requests for financial management systems and operations, and advise on the resources required to develop and effectively operate and maintain Federal Government financial management systems and to correct major deficiencies in such systems.

(4) Review and, where appropriate, recommend to the Director changes to the budget and legislative proposals of agencies to ensure that they are in accordance with financial management plans of the Office of Management and Budget.

(c) Establishment of agency Chief Financial Officers.— There shall be within each agency of the Federal Government an agency Chief Financial Officer. Each agency Chief Financial Officer shall—

(1) Be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; or

(2) Be designated by the President, in consultation with the head of the agency, from among officials of the agency who are required by law to be so appointed;

(3) Be appointed or designated, as applicable, from among individuals who possess demonstrated ability in general management of, and knowledge of and extensive practical experience in financial management practices in large governmental or business entities.

(4) The agencies referred to in this section are the following:

(A) The Department of Agriculture.
(B) The Department of Commerce.
(C) The Department of Defense.
(D) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(E) The Department of the Interior.
(F) The Department of Justice.
(G) The Department of Labor.
(H) The Department of State.
(I) The Department of the Treasury.
(J) The Veterans Administration.
(K) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

(d) Authority and functions of agency Chief Financial Officers.— An agency Chief Financial Officer shall:

(1) report directly to the head of the agency regarding financial management matters;

(2) oversee all financial management activities relating to the programs and operations of the agency;

(3) develop and maintain an integrated agency accounting and financial management system, including financial reporing and internal controls, which—

(A) complies with applicable accounting principles, standards, and requirements, and internal control stand- ards;
(B) complies with such policies and requirements as may be prescribed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
(C) complies with any other requirements applicable to such systems; and
(D) provides for complete, reliable, consistent, and timely information which is prepared on a uniform basis and which is responsive to the financial information needs of agency management; the development and reporting of cost information; the integration of accounting and budgeting information; and the systematic measurement of performance;

(4) direct, manage, and provide policy guidance and oversight of agency financial management personnel, activities, and operations, including:

(A) the preparation and annual revision of an agency plan to implement the 5-year financial management plan prepared by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget;
(B) the development of agency financial management budgets;
(C) the recruitment, selection, and training of personnel to carry out agency financial management functions;
(D) the approval and management of agency financial management systems design or enhancement projects;
(E) the implementation of agency asset management systems, including systems for cash management, credit management, debt collection, and property and inventory management and control.

(5) prepare and transmit, by not later than 60 days after the submission of the audit report required by this Act, an annual report to the agency head and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, which shall include—

(A) a description and analysis of the status of financial management of the agency;
(B) the annual financial statements prepared;
(C) the audit report transmitted to the head of the agency;
(D) a summary of the reports on internal accounting and administrative control systems submitted to the President and the Congress;
(E) other information the head of the agency considers appropriate to fully inform the President and the Congress concerning the financial management of the agency.

Section 3: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SPENDING REDUCTIONS IN THE ABSENCE OF AN UNQUALIFIED AUDIT OPINION

(a) If during any fiscal year after fiscal year 1960, the Secretary of Defense determines that a department, agency, or other element of the Department of Defense has not achieved an unqualified opinion on its full financial statements for the calendar year ending during such fiscal year--

(1) the amount available to such department, agency, or element for the fiscal year in which such determination is made shall be equal to the amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated minus 1.0 percent;

(2) the amount unavailable to such department, agency, or element for that fiscal year pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be applied on a proportional basis against each program, project, and activity of such department, agency, or element in that fiscal year; and

(3) the Secretary shall deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for purposes of deficit reduction all amounts unavailable to departments, agencies, and elements of the Department in the fiscal year pursuant to determinations made under paragraph (1).

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This bill is then honorably presented to the House of Representative for consideration in order to ensure clean audits for every federal agency and is backed by Rep. Byrne on Jan 6th, 1960.

Any cosponsorship appetite for this? Pretty non-controversial, basically establishes an audit process for every federal agency in the government (since the OMB didn't technically exist yet as it does today). There is a small catch though but I'll let any potential cosponsors find that for themselves...

[Turkducken]

Only thought about Unions, is that although they aren’t the end all be all the AFL-CIO just reformed after a long time separated because of the issue of black union membership.

So in this period, they aren’t particularly interested in endorsing anyone officially because they’ve reached a “dirty compromise” on civil rights

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

Only thought about Unions, is that although they aren’t the end all be all the AFL-CIO just reformed after a long time separated because of the issue of black union membership.

So in this period, they aren’t particularly interested in endorsing anyone officially because they’ve reached a “dirty compromise” on civil rights

True. But again, remember, this guy is known as a man of the unions, and has outright worked with “the enemies of the party” to help them. His endorsement would be, well, quite powerful.
And the UAW would endorse. Walter Reuther, well… he’d definitely endorse a progressive.

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Official Name: The Agency Audit Act of 1960

Nickname: The AAA

Overview: A bill to ensure that every major agency of the Federal Government undergoes and passes a clean audit opinion on its financial statements.

Sponsor: Rep. Thomas C. Byrne [D-NY-7]
Co-Sponsors: (Here is where you put who else supports the bill, do an OOC poll to figure out what other chars would like to hop on!)

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Section 1: FINDINGS

(a) The Congress finds the following:

(1) General management functions of the Bureau of the Budget need to be significantly enhanced to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal Government;

(2) Financial management functions of the Bureau of the Budget need to be significantly enhanced to provide overall direction and leadership in the development of a modern federal financial management structure and associated systems;

(3) Billions of dollars are lost each year through fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement among the hundreds of programs in the Federal Government;

(4) These losses could be significantly decreased by improved management, including improved central coordination of internal controls and financial accounting;

(5) The Federal Government is in great need of fundamental reform in financial management requirements and practices as financial management systems are obsolete and inefficient, and do not provide complete, consistent, reliable, and timely information;

(6) Current financial reporting practices of the Federal Government do not accurately disclose the current and probable future cost of operating and investment decisions, including the future need for cash or other resources, do not permit adequate comparison of actual costs among executive agencies, and do not provide the timely information required for efficient management of programs.

(b) The purposes of this Act are the following:

(1) Bring more effective general and financial management practices to the Federal Government through statutory provisions which would establish in the Bureau of the Budget a Deputy Director for Management, establish an Office of Federal Financial Management headed by a Controller, and designate a Chief Financial Officer in each executive department and in each major agency of the Federal Government;

(2) Provide for improvement, in each agency, of systems of accounting, financial management, and internal controls to assure the issuance of reliable financial information and to deter fraud, waste, and abuse of Government resources;

(3) Provide for the production of complete, reliable, consistent and timely financial information for use by the executive branch and the Congress in the financing, management, and evaluation of Federal programs;

(4) Recover amounts, for the purposes of deficit reduction, from the Department of Defense should it fail to achieve an unqualified opinion on its full financial statement by the Bureau of the Budget.

Section 2: ESTABLISHMENT OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS

(a) The Bureau henceforth shall have a Director for Management appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Deputy Director for Management shall be the chief official responsible for financial management in the United States Government;

(b) FUNCTIONS OF DIRECTOR FOR MANAGEMENT—. The Director for Management shall establish governmentwide financial management policies for executive agencies and shall perform the following financial management functions:

(1) Perform all functions, including all functions delegated by the President, relating to financial management.

(2) Provide overall direction and leadership to the executive branch on financial management matters by establishing financial management policies and requirements, and by monitoring the establishment and operation of Federal Government financial management systems.

(3) Review agency budget requests for financial management systems and operations, and advise on the resources required to develop and effectively operate and maintain Federal Government financial management systems and to correct major deficiencies in such systems.

(4) Review and, where appropriate, recommend to the Director changes to the budget and legislative proposals of agencies to ensure that they are in accordance with financial management plans of the Office of Management and Budget.

(c) Establishment of agency Chief Financial Officers.— There shall be within each agency of the Federal Government an agency Chief Financial Officer. Each agency Chief Financial Officer shall—

(1) Be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; or

(2) Be designated by the President, in consultation with the head of the agency, from among officials of the agency who are required by law to be so appointed;

(3) Be appointed or designated, as applicable, from among individuals who possess demonstrated ability in general management of, and knowledge of and extensive practical experience in financial management practices in large governmental or business entities.

(4) The agencies referred to in this section are the following:

(A) The Department of Agriculture.
(B) The Department of Commerce.
(C) The Department of Defense.
(D) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(E) The Department of the Interior.
(F) The Department of Justice.
(G) The Department of Labor.
(H) The Department of State.
(I) The Department of the Treasury.
(J) The Veterans Administration.
(K) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

(d) Authority and functions of agency Chief Financial Officers.— An agency Chief Financial Officer shall:

(1) report directly to the head of the agency regarding financial management matters;

(2) oversee all financial management activities relating to the programs and operations of the agency;

(3) develop and maintain an integrated agency accounting and financial management system, including financial reporing and internal controls, which—

(A) complies with applicable accounting principles, standards, and requirements, and internal control stand- ards;
(B) complies with such policies and requirements as may be prescribed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
(C) complies with any other requirements applicable to such systems; and
(D) provides for complete, reliable, consistent, and timely information which is prepared on a uniform basis and which is responsive to the financial information needs of agency management; the development and reporting of cost information; the integration of accounting and budgeting information; and the systematic measurement of performance;

(4) direct, manage, and provide policy guidance and oversight of agency financial management personnel, activities, and operations, including:

(A) the preparation and annual revision of an agency plan to implement the 5-year financial management plan prepared by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget;
(B) the development of agency financial management budgets;
(C) the recruitment, selection, and training of personnel to carry out agency financial management functions;
(D) the approval and management of agency financial management systems design or enhancement projects;
(E) the implementation of agency asset management systems, including systems for cash management, credit management, debt collection, and property and inventory management and control.

(5) prepare and transmit, by not later than 60 days after the submission of the audit report required by this Act, an annual report to the agency head and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, which shall include—

(A) a description and analysis of the status of financial management of the agency;
(B) the annual financial statements prepared;
(C) the audit report transmitted to the head of the agency;
(D) a summary of the reports on internal accounting and administrative control systems submitted to the President and the Congress;
(E) other information the head of the agency considers appropriate to fully inform the President and the Congress concerning the financial management of the agency.

Section 3: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SPENDING REDUCTIONS IN THE ABSENCE OF AN UNQUALIFIED AUDIT OPINION

(a) If during any fiscal year after fiscal year 1960, the Secretary of Defense determines that a department, agency, or other element of the Department of Defense has not achieved an unqualified opinion on its full financial statements for the calendar year ending during such fiscal year--

(1) the amount available to such department, agency, or element for the fiscal year in which such determination is made shall be equal to the amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated minus 1.0 percent;

(2) the amount unavailable to such department, agency, or element for that fiscal year pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be applied on a proportional basis against each program, project, and activity of such department, agency, or element in that fiscal year; and

(3) the Secretary shall deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for purposes of deficit reduction all amounts unavailable to departments, agencies, and elements of the Department in the fiscal year pursuant to determinations made under paragraph (1).

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This bill is then honorably presented to the House of Representative for consideration in order to ensure clean audits for every federal agency and is backed by Rep. Byrne on Jan 6th, 1960.

Any cosponsorship appetite for this? Pretty non-controversial, basically establishes an audit process for every federal agency in the government (since the OMB didn't technically exist yet as it does today). There is a small catch though but I'll let any potential cosponsors find that for themselves...

Again, Long and Gary would both probably be onboard. Though I’m trying to figure out, would Gary try and place himself as more fiscally conservative to try and gain votes? And Long might go full populism mode and rule people up? But probably they’ll support.

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Official Name: The Agency Audit Act of 1960

Nickname: The AAA

Overview: A bill to ensure that every major agency of the Federal Government undergoes and passes a clean audit opinion on its financial statements.

Sponsor: Rep. Thomas C. Byrne [D-NY-7]
Co-Sponsors: (Here is where you put who else supports the bill, do an OOC poll to figure out what other chars would like to hop on!)

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Section 1: FINDINGS

(a) The Congress finds the following:

(1) General management functions of the Bureau of the Budget need to be significantly enhanced to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal Government;

(2) Financial management functions of the Bureau of the Budget need to be significantly enhanced to provide overall direction and leadership in the development of a modern federal financial management structure and associated systems;

(3) Billions of dollars are lost each year through fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement among the hundreds of programs in the Federal Government;

(4) These losses could be significantly decreased by improved management, including improved central coordination of internal controls and financial accounting;

(5) The Federal Government is in great need of fundamental reform in financial management requirements and practices as financial management systems are obsolete and inefficient, and do not provide complete, consistent, reliable, and timely information;

(6) Current financial reporting practices of the Federal Government do not accurately disclose the current and probable future cost of operating and investment decisions, including the future need for cash or other resources, do not permit adequate comparison of actual costs among executive agencies, and do not provide the timely information required for efficient management of programs.

(b) The purposes of this Act are the following:

(1) Bring more effective general and financial management practices to the Federal Government through statutory provisions which would establish in the Bureau of the Budget a Deputy Director for Management, establish an Office of Federal Financial Management headed by a Controller, and designate a Chief Financial Officer in each executive department and in each major agency of the Federal Government;

(2) Provide for improvement, in each agency, of systems of accounting, financial management, and internal controls to assure the issuance of reliable financial information and to deter fraud, waste, and abuse of Government resources;

(3) Provide for the production of complete, reliable, consistent and timely financial information for use by the executive branch and the Congress in the financing, management, and evaluation of Federal programs;

(4) Recover amounts, for the purposes of deficit reduction, from the Department of Defense should it fail to achieve an unqualified opinion on its full financial statement by the Bureau of the Budget.

Section 2: ESTABLISHMENT OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS

(a) The Bureau henceforth shall have a Director for Management appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Deputy Director for Management shall be the chief official responsible for financial management in the United States Government;

(b) FUNCTIONS OF DIRECTOR FOR MANAGEMENT—. The Director for Management shall establish governmentwide financial management policies for executive agencies and shall perform the following financial management functions:

(1) Perform all functions, including all functions delegated by the President, relating to financial management.

(2) Provide overall direction and leadership to the executive branch on financial management matters by establishing financial management policies and requirements, and by monitoring the establishment and operation of Federal Government financial management systems.

(3) Review agency budget requests for financial management systems and operations, and advise on the resources required to develop and effectively operate and maintain Federal Government financial management systems and to correct major deficiencies in such systems.

(4) Review and, where appropriate, recommend to the Director changes to the budget and legislative proposals of agencies to ensure that they are in accordance with financial management plans of the Office of Management and Budget.

(c) Establishment of agency Chief Financial Officers.— There shall be within each agency of the Federal Government an agency Chief Financial Officer. Each agency Chief Financial Officer shall—

(1) Be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; or

(2) Be designated by the President, in consultation with the head of the agency, from among officials of the agency who are required by law to be so appointed;

(3) Be appointed or designated, as applicable, from among individuals who possess demonstrated ability in general management of, and knowledge of and extensive practical experience in financial management practices in large governmental or business entities.

(4) The agencies referred to in this section are the following:

(A) The Department of Agriculture.
(B) The Department of Commerce.
(C) The Department of Defense.
(D) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(E) The Department of the Interior.
(F) The Department of Justice.
(G) The Department of Labor.
(H) The Department of State.
(I) The Department of the Treasury.
(J) The Veterans Administration.
(K) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

(d) Authority and functions of agency Chief Financial Officers.— An agency Chief Financial Officer shall:

(1) report directly to the head of the agency regarding financial management matters;

(2) oversee all financial management activities relating to the programs and operations of the agency;

(3) develop and maintain an integrated agency accounting and financial management system, including financial reporing and internal controls, which—

(A) complies with applicable accounting principles, standards, and requirements, and internal control stand- ards;
(B) complies with such policies and requirements as may be prescribed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
(C) complies with any other requirements applicable to such systems; and
(D) provides for complete, reliable, consistent, and timely information which is prepared on a uniform basis and which is responsive to the financial information needs of agency management; the development and reporting of cost information; the integration of accounting and budgeting information; and the systematic measurement of performance;

(4) direct, manage, and provide policy guidance and oversight of agency financial management personnel, activities, and operations, including:

(A) the preparation and annual revision of an agency plan to implement the 5-year financial management plan prepared by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget;
(B) the development of agency financial management budgets;
(C) the recruitment, selection, and training of personnel to carry out agency financial management functions;
(D) the approval and management of agency financial management systems design or enhancement projects;
(E) the implementation of agency asset management systems, including systems for cash management, credit management, debt collection, and property and inventory management and control.

(5) prepare and transmit, by not later than 60 days after the submission of the audit report required by this Act, an annual report to the agency head and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, which shall include—

(A) a description and analysis of the status of financial management of the agency;
(B) the annual financial statements prepared;
(C) the audit report transmitted to the head of the agency;
(D) a summary of the reports on internal accounting and administrative control systems submitted to the President and the Congress;
(E) other information the head of the agency considers appropriate to fully inform the President and the Congress concerning the financial management of the agency.

Section 3: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SPENDING REDUCTIONS IN THE ABSENCE OF AN UNQUALIFIED AUDIT OPINION

(a) If during any fiscal year after fiscal year 1960, the Secretary of Defense determines that a department, agency, or other element of the Department of Defense has not achieved an unqualified opinion on its full financial statements for the calendar year ending during such fiscal year--

(1) the amount available to such department, agency, or element for the fiscal year in which such determination is made shall be equal to the amount otherwise authorized to be appropriated minus 1.0 percent;

(2) the amount unavailable to such department, agency, or element for that fiscal year pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be applied on a proportional basis against each program, project, and activity of such department, agency, or element in that fiscal year; and

(3) the Secretary shall deposit in the general fund of the Treasury for purposes of deficit reduction all amounts unavailable to departments, agencies, and elements of the Department in the fiscal year pursuant to determinations made under paragraph (1).

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This bill is then honorably presented to the House of Representative for consideration in order to ensure clean audits for every federal agency and is backed by Rep. Byrne on Jan 6th, 1960.

Any cosponsorship appetite for this? Pretty non-controversial, basically establishes an audit process for every federal agency in the government (since the OMB didn't technically exist yet as it does today). There is a small catch though but I'll let any potential cosponsors find that for themselves...

Any attempts to reduce defense spending while the fascist menace terrifies the free world must be opposed.

But other than the fun surprise at the end, no it generally seems okay

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Certainly will need another, more assertive civil rights act, but might as well put this forward right now., as ICly this'll be what Emily's been working on in 1959 as her signature proposal.

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Official Name: Guaranteed Voting Rights Act of 1960

Nickname: GVR Act

Overview: Enforces the right of all citizens the vote regardless of race or color.

Sponsor: Senator Emily Nelson (NY)
Co-Sponsors:

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Section 1: AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the "Guaranteed Voting Rights Act of 1960"

Section 2: No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on any account.

Section 3: (a) Federal examiners by the United States Civil Service Commission in accordance with section 6 to serve for such period of time and for such political subdivisions as the court shall determine is appropriate to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth (1) as part of any interlocutory order if the court determines that the appointment of such examiners is necessary to enforce such guarantees or (2) as part of any final judgment if the court finds that violations of the fifteenth justifying equitable relief have occurred in such State or subdivision: Provided, That the court need not authorize the appointment of examiners if any incidents of denial or abridgement of the right to vote on any account (1) have been few in number and have been promptly and effectively corrected by State or local action, (2) the continuing effect of such incidents has been eliminated, and (3) there is no reasonable probability of their recurrence in the future.

(b) If in a proceeding instituted by the Attorney General under any statute to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth amendment in any State or political subdivision the court finds that a test or device has been used for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right of any citizen of the United States to vote, it shall suspend the use of tests and devices in such State or political subdivisions as the court shall determine is appropriate and for such period as it deems necessary.

(c) If in any proceeding instituted by the Attorney General under any statute to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth amendment in any State or political subdivision the court finds that violations of the fifteenth amendment justifying equitable relief have occurred within the territory of such State or political subdivision, the court, in addition to such relief as it may grant, shall retain jurisdiction for such period as it may deem appropriate and during such period no voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting different from that in force or effect at the time the proceeding was commenced shall be enforced unless and until the court finds that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account: Provided, That such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure may be enforced if the qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure has been submitted by the chief legal officer or other appropriate official of such State or subdivision to the Attorney General and the Attorney General has not interposed an objection within sixty days after such submission, except that neither the court's finding nor the Attorney General's failure to object shall bar a subsequent action to enjoin enforcement of such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure.

Section 4: (a) To assure that the right of citizens of the United States to vote is not denied or abridged on account of race or color, no citizen shall be denied the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of his failure to comply with any test or device in any State with respect to which the determinations have been made under subsection (b) or in any political subdivision with respect to which such determinations have been made as a separate unit, unless the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in an action for a declaratory judgment brought by such State or subdivision against the United States has determined that no such test or device has been used during the five years preceding the filing of the action for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account: Provided, That no such declaratory judgment shall issue with respect to any plaintiff for a period of five years after the entry of a final judgment of any court of the United States, other than the denial of a declaratory judgment under this section, whether entered prior to or after the enactment of this Act, determining that denials or abridgments of the right to vote on any account through the use of such tests or devices have occurred anywhere in the territory of such plaintiff. An action pursuant to this subsection shall be heard and determined by a court of three judges in accordance with the provisions of section 2284 of title 28 of the United States Code and any appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court. The court shall retain jurisdiction of any action pursuant to this subsection for five years after judgment and shall reopen the action upon motion of the Attorney General alleging that a test or device has been used for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account.

If the Attorney General determines that he has no reason to believe that any such test or device has been used during the five years preceding the filing of the action for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account, he shall consent to the entry of such judgment

(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall apply in any State or in any political subdivision of a state which (1) the Attorney General determines maintained on November 1, 1956, any test or device, and with respect to which (2) the Director of the Census determines that less than 80 percentum of the persons of voting age residing therein were registered on November 1, 1956, or that less than 60 percentum of such persons voted in the presidential election of November 1956.

A determination or certification of the Attorney General or of the Director of the Census under this section or under section 6 or section 13 shall not be reviewable in any court and shall be effective upon publication in the Federal Register.

(c) The phrase "test or device" shall mean any requirement that a person as a prerequisite for voting or registration for voting (1) demonstrate the ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter, (2) demonstrate any educational achievement or his knowledge of any particular subject, (3) possess good moral character, or (4) prove his qualifications by the voucher of registered voters or members of any other class.

(d) For purposes of this section no State or political subdivision shall be determined to have engaged in the use of tests or devices for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color if (1) incidents of such use have been few in number and have been promptly and effectively corrected by State or local action, (2) the continuing effect of such incidents has been eliminated, and (3) there is no reasonable probability of their recurrence in the future.

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(1) Congress hereby declares that to secure the rights under the fourteenth of persons educated in American-flag schools in which the predominant classroom language was other than English, it is necessary to prohibit the States from conditioning the right to vote of such persons on ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter in the English language.
(2) No person who demonstrates that he has successfully completed the sixth primary grade in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in which the predominant classroom language was other than English, shall be denied the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of his inability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter in the English language, except that, in States in which State law provides that a different level of education is presumptive of literacy, he shall demonstrate that he has successfully completed an equivalent level of education in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in which the predominant classroom language was other than English.

Section 5: Whenever a State or political subdivision with respect to which the prohibitions set forth in section 4(a) are in effect shall enact or seek to administer any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting different from that in force or effect on November 1, 1956, such State or subdivision may institute an action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account, and unless and until the court enters such judgment no person shall be denied the right to vote for failure to comply with such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure: Provided, That such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure may be enforced without such proceeding if the qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure has been submitted by the chief legal officer or other appropriate official of such State or subdivision to the Attorney General and the Attorney General has not interposed an objection within sixty days after such submission, except that neither the Attorney General's failure to object nor a declaratory judgment entered under this section shall bar a subsequent action to enjoin enforcement of such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure. Any action under this section shall be heard and determined by a court of three judges in accordance with the provisions of section 2284 of title 28 of the United States Code and any appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court.

Section 6: Whenever (a) a court has authorized the appointment of examiners pursuant to the provisions of section 3(a), or (b) unless a declaratory judgment has been rendered under section 4(a), the Attorney General certifies with respect to any political subdivision named in, or included within the scope of, determinations made under section 4(b) that (1) he has received complaints in writing from twenty or more residents of such political subdivision alleging that they have been denied the right to vote under color of law on any account, and that he believes such complaints to be meritorious, or (2) that, in his judgment (considering, among other factors, whether the ratio of nonwhite persons to white persons, registered to vote within such subdivision appears to him to be reasonably attributable to violations of the fifteenth amendment or whether substantial evidence exists that bona fide efforts are being made within such subdivision to comply with the fifteenth amendment), the appointment of examiners is otherwise necessary to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth, the Civil Service Commission shall appoint as many examiners for such subdivision as it may deem appropriate to prepare and maintain lists of persons eligible to vote in Federal, State, and local elections. Such examiners, hearing officers provided for in section 9(a), and other persons deemed necessary by the Commission to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Act shall be appointed, compensated, and separated without regard to the provisions of any statute administered by the Civil Service Commission, and service under this Act shall not be considered employment for the purposes of any statute administered by the Civil Service Commission, except the provisions of section 9 of the Act of August 2, 1939, as amended (5 U.S.C. 118i), prohibiting partisan political activity: Provided, That the Commission is authorized, after consulting the head of the appropriate department or agency, to designate suitable persons in the official service of the United States, with their consent, to serve in these positions. Examiners and hearing officers shall have the power to administer oaths.

Section 7: (a) The examiners for each political subdivision shall, at such places as the Civil Service Commission shall by regulation designate, examine applicants concerning their qualifications for voting. An application to an examiner shall be in such form as the Commission may require and shall contain allegations that the applicant is not otherwise registered to vote.

(b) Any person whom the examiner finds, in accordance with instructions received under section 9(b), to have the qualifications prescribed by State law not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States shall promptly be placed on a list of eligible voters. A challenge to such listing may be made in accordance with section 9(a) and shall not be the basis for a prosecution under section 12 of this Act. The examiner shall certify and transmit such list, and any supplements as appropriate, at least once a month, to the offices of the appropriate election officials, with copies to the Attorney General and the attorney general of the State, and any such lists and supplements thereto transmitted during the month shall be available for public inspection on the last business day of the month and, in any event, not later than the forty-fifth day prior to any election. The appropriate State or local election official shall place such names on the official voting list. Any person whose name appears on the examiner's list shall be entitled and allowed to vote in the election district of his residence unless and until the appropriate election officials shall have been notified that such person has been removed from such list in accordance with subsection (d): Provided, That no person shall be entitled to vote in any election by virtue of this Act unless his name shall have been certified and transmitted on such a list to the offices of the appropriate election officials at least forty-five days prior to such election.

(c) The examiner shall issue to each person whose name appears on such a list a certificate evidencing his eligibility to vote.

(d) A person whose name appears on such a list shall be removed therefrom by an examiner if (1) such person has been successfully challenged in accordance with the procedure prescribed in section 9, or (2) he has been determined by an examiner to have lost his eligibility to vote under State law not inconsistent with the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

Section 8: Whenever an examiner is serving under this Act in any political subdivision, the Civil Service Commission may assign, at the request of the Attorney General, one or more persons, who may be officers of the United States, (1) to enter and attend at any place for holding an election in such subdivision for the purpose of observing whether persons who are entitled to vote are being permitted to vote, and (2) to enter and attend at any place for tabulating the votes cast at any election held in such subdivision for the purpose of observing whether votes cast by persons entitled to vote are being properly tabulated. Such persons so assigned shall report to an examiner appointed for such political subdivision, to the Attorney General, and if the appointment of examiners has been authorized pursuant to section 3(a), to the court.

Section 9: (a) Any challenge to a listing on an eligibility list prepared by an examiner shall be heard and determined by a hearing officer appointed by and responsible to the Civil Service Commission and under such rules as the Commission shall by regulation prescribe. Such challenge shall be entertained only if filed at such office within the State as the Civil Service Commission shall by regulation designate, and within ten days after the listing of the challenged person is made available for public inspection, and if supported by (1) the affidavits of at least two persons having personal knowledge of the facts constituting grounds for the challenge, and (2) a certification that a copy of the challenge and affidavits have been served by mail or in person upon the person challenged at his place of residence set out in the application. Such challenge shall be determined within fifteen days after it has been filed. A petition for review of the decision of the hearing officer may be filed in the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which the person challenged resides within fifteen days after service of such decision by mail on the person petitioning for review but no decision of a hearing officer shall be reversed unless clearly erroneous. Any person listed shall be entitled and allowed to vote pending final determination by the hearing officer and by the court.

(b) The times, places, procedures, and form for application and listing pursuant to this Act and removals from the eligibility lists shall be prescribed by regulations promulgated by the Civil Service Commission and the Commission shall, after consultation with the Attorney General, instruct examiners concerning applicable State law not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States with respect to (1) the qualifications required for listing, and (2) loss of eligibility to vote.

(c) Upon the request of the applicant or the challenger or on its own motion the Civil Service Commission shall have the power to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence relating to any matter pending before it under the authority of this section. In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena, any district court of the United States or the United States court of any territory or possession, or the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, within the jurisdiction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or is domiciled or transacts business, or has appointed an agent for receipt of service of process, upon application by the Attorney General of the United States shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before the Commission or a hearing officer, there to produce pertinent, relevant, and nonprivileged documentary evidence if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation, and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof.

Section 10: (a) No person acting under color of law shall fail or refuse to permit any person to vote who is entitled to vote under any provision of this Act or is otherwise qualified to vote, or willfully fail or refuse to tabulate, count, and report such person's vote.

(b) No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for exercising any powers or duties under section 3(a), 6, 8, 9, or 11(e).

(c) Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address, or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both: Provided, however, That this provision shall be applicable to any political office.

(d) Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of an examiner or hearing officer knowingly and willfully falsifies or conceals a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Section 11: (a) Whoever shall deprive or attempt to deprive any person of any right secured by section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, or shall violate section 10(a) or (b), shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(b) Whoever, within a year following an election in a political subdivision in which an examiner has been appointed (1) destroys, defaces, mutilates, or otherwise alters the marking of a paper ballot which has been cast in such election, or (2) alters any official record of voting in such election tabulated from a voting machine or otherwise, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both

(c) Whoever conspires to violate the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this section, or interferes with any right secured by section 2, 3 4, 5, 7, or 10(a) or (b) shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(d) Whenever any person has engaged or there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person is about to engage in any act or practice prohibited by section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, or subsection (b) of this section, the Attorney General may institute for the United States, or in the name of the United States, an action for preventive relief, including an application for a temporary or permanent injunction, restraining order, or other order, and including an order directed to the State and State or local election officials to require them (1) to permit persons listed under this Act to vote and (2) to count such votes.

(e) Whenever in any political subdivision in which there are examiners appointed pursuant to this Act any persons allege to such an examiner within forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls that notwithstanding (1) their listing under this Act or registration by an appropriate election official and (2) their eligibility to vote, they have not been permitted to vote in such election, the examiner shall forthwith notify the Attorney General if such allegations in his opinion appear to be well founded. Upon receipt of such notification, the Attorney General may forthwith file with the district court an application for an order providing for the marking, casting, and counting of the ballots of such persons and requiring the inclusion of their votes in the total vote before the results of such election shall be deemed final and any force or effect given thereto. The district court shall hear and determine such matters immediately after the filing of such application. The remedy provided in this subsection shall not preclude any remedy available under State or Federal law.

(f) The district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section and shall exercise the same without regard to whether a person asserting rights under the provisions of this Act shall have exhausted any administrative or other remedies that may be provided by law

Section 12: Listing procedures shall be terminated in any political subdivision of any State (a) with respect to examiners appointed pursuant to clause (b) of section 6 whenever the Attorney General notifies the Civil Service Commission, or whenever the District Court for the District of Columbia determines in an action for declaratory judgment brought by any political subdivision with respect to which the Director of the Census has determined that more than 80 percentum of the nonwhite of voting age residing therein are registered to vote, (1) that all persons listed by an examiner for such subdivision have been placed on the appropriate voting registration roll, and (2) that there is no longer reasonable cause to believe that persons will be deprived of or denied the right to vote on account of race or color in such subdivision, and (b), with respect to examiners appointed pursuant to section 3(a), upon order of the authorizing court. A political subdivision may petition the Attorney General for the termination of listing procedures under clause (a) of this section, and may petition the Attorney General to request the Director of the Census to take such survey or census as may be appropriate for the making of the determination provided for in this section. The District Court for the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction to require such survey or census to be made by the Director of the Census and it shall require him to do so if it deems the Attorney General's refusal to request such survey or census to be arbitrary or unreasonable.

Section 13: (a) All cases of criminal contempt arising under the provisions of this Act shall be governed by section 151 of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (42 U.S.C.1995).

(b) No court other than the District Court for the District of Columbia or a court of appeals in any proceeding under section 9 shall have jurisdiction to issue any declaratory judgment pursuant to section 4 or section 5 or any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction against the execution or enforcement of any provision of this Act or any action of any Federal officer or employee pursuant hereto.

(c)
(1) The terms "vote" or "voting" shall include all action necessary to make a vote effective in any primary, special, or general election, including, but not limited to, registration, listing pursuant to this Act, or other action required by law prerequisite to voting, casting a ballot, and having such ballot counted properly and included in the appropriate totals of votes cast with respect to candidates for public or party office and propositions for which votes are received in an election.
(2) The term "political subdivision" shall mean any county or parish, except that, where registration for voting is not conducted under the supervision of a county or parish, the term shall include any other subdivision of a State which conducts registration for voting.

(d) In any action for a declaratory judgment brought pursuant to section 4 or section 5 of this Act, subpoenas for witnesses who are required to attend the District Court for the District of Columbia may be served in any judicial district of the United States: Provided, That no writ of subpoena shall issue for witnesses without the District of Columbia at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding court without the permission of the District Court for the District of Columbia being first had upon proper application and cause shown.

Section 14: The Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, jointly, shall make a full and complete study to determine whether, under the laws or practices of any State or States, there are preconditions to voting, which might tend to result in discrimination against citizens serving in the Armed Forces of the United States seeking to vote. Such officials shall, jointly, make a report to the Congress not later than June 30, 1961, containing the results of such study, together with a list of any States in which such preconditions exist, and shall include in such report such recommendations for legislation as they deem advisable to prevent discrimination in voting against citizens serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.

Section 15: Nothing in this Act shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise adversely affect the right to vote of any person registered to vote under the law of any State or political subdivision.

Section 16: There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act

Section 17: If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

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This bill is then honorably presented to the Senate for consideration in order to enforce the 15th Amendment to improve the United States Law and is backed by Emily Nelson on January 6, 1960

I think the expression of such Legislative power in overriding the States regulatory powers would almost definitely be a Supreme Court case waiting to happen.

But interesting!

Sending it to the same supreme court that just decided Brown V. Board sounds fine to me. In any case, the 14th and 15th amendment are very clear that congress can regulate this. As for federal elections, the constitution directly puts that into the hands of the federal government anyway.

Welp time for Sparks to dust off his voice and prepare a filibuster.

Counting on it.

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

Senator Sparks moment.

to all of congress, kind of insulting. It’s a joke, mods don’t kill me.

You are swine you vulgar little maggot. Don't you know that you are pathetic? You worthless bag of filth. As we say in California, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. A zit on the butt of society. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you. You are a bloody nardless newbie twit protohominid chromosomally aberrant caricature of a coprophagic cloacal parasitic pond scum and I wish you would go away.

You're a putrescence mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

You are a bleating fool, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. Because off your face the rabbit population actually decreased. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

If you aren't an idiot, you made a world-class effort at simulating one.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.

On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.

Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good.

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

Yeah, I think I’ll focus on Long, a cursed combination of Huey Long, LBJ, Frank Underwood and JFK.
Then probably, Gary, a combo of Rockefeller and Hiram Johnson, with a little LaFollete sprinkled in
And finally, at the bottom, Graythorpe, the weird George McGovern expy.

[Union Princes]

Gonna be attempting to write a few bill drafts for Joyner

The SAFE Act
The PHD Act
The BLUE Act

Same with Disney
The Dollar Diplomacy
The Banana Act
The Castle Doctrine

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

Gonna be attempting to write a few bill drafts for Joyner

The SAFE Act
The PHD Act
The BLUE Act

Same with Disney
The Dollar Diplomacy
The Banana Act
The Castle Doctrine

Oddly enough, all of those acts from Joyner don’t sound too bad. For Disney, they all sound like things that both Gary and Long would oppose like hell, and then Gary would speak softly about it to newspapers, whilst saying “there is some reason to it”, and Long would go shout obscenities to a crowd that might storm on the capital. Anyhow, can Disney actually write a bill? He isn’t in congress…

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Certainly will need another, more assertive civil rights act, but might as well put this forward right now., as ICly this'll be what Emily's been working on in 1959 as her signature proposal.

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Official Name: Guaranteed Voting Rights Act of 1960

Nickname: GVR Act

Overview: Enforces the right of all citizens the vote regardless of race or color.

Sponsor: Senator Emily Nelson (NY)
Co-Sponsors:

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Section 1: AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the "Guaranteed Voting Rights Act of 1960"

Section 2: No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on any account.

Section 3: (a) Federal examiners by the United States Civil Service Commission in accordance with section 6 to serve for such period of time and for such political subdivisions as the court shall determine is appropriate to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth (1) as part of any interlocutory order if the court determines that the appointment of such examiners is necessary to enforce such guarantees or (2) as part of any final judgment if the court finds that violations of the fifteenth justifying equitable relief have occurred in such State or subdivision: Provided, That the court need not authorize the appointment of examiners if any incidents of denial or abridgement of the right to vote on any account (1) have been few in number and have been promptly and effectively corrected by State or local action, (2) the continuing effect of such incidents has been eliminated, and (3) there is no reasonable probability of their recurrence in the future.

(b) If in a proceeding instituted by the Attorney General under any statute to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth amendment in any State or political subdivision the court finds that a test or device has been used for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right of any citizen of the United States to vote, it shall suspend the use of tests and devices in such State or political subdivisions as the court shall determine is appropriate and for such period as it deems necessary.

(c) If in any proceeding instituted by the Attorney General under any statute to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth amendment in any State or political subdivision the court finds that violations of the fifteenth amendment justifying equitable relief have occurred within the territory of such State or political subdivision, the court, in addition to such relief as it may grant, shall retain jurisdiction for such period as it may deem appropriate and during such period no voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting different from that in force or effect at the time the proceeding was commenced shall be enforced unless and until the court finds that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account: Provided, That such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure may be enforced if the qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure has been submitted by the chief legal officer or other appropriate official of such State or subdivision to the Attorney General and the Attorney General has not interposed an objection within sixty days after such submission, except that neither the court's finding nor the Attorney General's failure to object shall bar a subsequent action to enjoin enforcement of such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure.

Section 4: (a) To assure that the right of citizens of the United States to vote is not denied or abridged on account of race or color, no citizen shall be denied the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of his failure to comply with any test or device in any State with respect to which the determinations have been made under subsection (b) or in any political subdivision with respect to which such determinations have been made as a separate unit, unless the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in an action for a declaratory judgment brought by such State or subdivision against the United States has determined that no such test or device has been used during the five years preceding the filing of the action for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account: Provided, That no such declaratory judgment shall issue with respect to any plaintiff for a period of five years after the entry of a final judgment of any court of the United States, other than the denial of a declaratory judgment under this section, whether entered prior to or after the enactment of this Act, determining that denials or abridgments of the right to vote on any account through the use of such tests or devices have occurred anywhere in the territory of such plaintiff. An action pursuant to this subsection shall be heard and determined by a court of three judges in accordance with the provisions of section 2284 of title 28 of the United States Code and any appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court. The court shall retain jurisdiction of any action pursuant to this subsection for five years after judgment and shall reopen the action upon motion of the Attorney General alleging that a test or device has been used for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account.

If the Attorney General determines that he has no reason to believe that any such test or device has been used during the five years preceding the filing of the action for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account, he shall consent to the entry of such judgment

(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall apply in any State or in any political subdivision of a state which (1) the Attorney General determines maintained on November 1, 1956, any test or device, and with respect to which (2) the Director of the Census determines that less than 80 percentum of the persons of voting age residing therein were registered on November 1, 1956, or that less than 60 percentum of such persons voted in the presidential election of November 1956.

A determination or certification of the Attorney General or of the Director of the Census under this section or under section 6 or section 13 shall not be reviewable in any court and shall be effective upon publication in the Federal Register.

(c) The phrase "test or device" shall mean any requirement that a person as a prerequisite for voting or registration for voting (1) demonstrate the ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter, (2) demonstrate any educational achievement or his knowledge of any particular subject, (3) possess good moral character, or (4) prove his qualifications by the voucher of registered voters or members of any other class.

(d) For purposes of this section no State or political subdivision shall be determined to have engaged in the use of tests or devices for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color if (1) incidents of such use have been few in number and have been promptly and effectively corrected by State or local action, (2) the continuing effect of such incidents has been eliminated, and (3) there is no reasonable probability of their recurrence in the future.

(e)
(1) Congress hereby declares that to secure the rights under the fourteenth of persons educated in American-flag schools in which the predominant classroom language was other than English, it is necessary to prohibit the States from conditioning the right to vote of such persons on ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter in the English language.
(2) No person who demonstrates that he has successfully completed the sixth primary grade in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in which the predominant classroom language was other than English, shall be denied the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of his inability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter in the English language, except that, in States in which State law provides that a different level of education is presumptive of literacy, he shall demonstrate that he has successfully completed an equivalent level of education in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in which the predominant classroom language was other than English.

Section 5: Whenever a State or political subdivision with respect to which the prohibitions set forth in section 4(a) are in effect shall enact or seek to administer any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting different from that in force or effect on November 1, 1956, such State or subdivision may institute an action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on any account, and unless and until the court enters such judgment no person shall be denied the right to vote for failure to comply with such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure: Provided, That such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure may be enforced without such proceeding if the qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure has been submitted by the chief legal officer or other appropriate official of such State or subdivision to the Attorney General and the Attorney General has not interposed an objection within sixty days after such submission, except that neither the Attorney General's failure to object nor a declaratory judgment entered under this section shall bar a subsequent action to enjoin enforcement of such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure. Any action under this section shall be heard and determined by a court of three judges in accordance with the provisions of section 2284 of title 28 of the United States Code and any appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court.

Section 6: Whenever (a) a court has authorized the appointment of examiners pursuant to the provisions of section 3(a), or (b) unless a declaratory judgment has been rendered under section 4(a), the Attorney General certifies with respect to any political subdivision named in, or included within the scope of, determinations made under section 4(b) that (1) he has received complaints in writing from twenty or more residents of such political subdivision alleging that they have been denied the right to vote under color of law on any account, and that he believes such complaints to be meritorious, or (2) that, in his judgment (considering, among other factors, whether the ratio of nonwhite persons to white persons, registered to vote within such subdivision appears to him to be reasonably attributable to violations of the fifteenth amendment or whether substantial evidence exists that bona fide efforts are being made within such subdivision to comply with the fifteenth amendment), the appointment of examiners is otherwise necessary to enforce the guarantees of the fifteenth, the Civil Service Commission shall appoint as many examiners for such subdivision as it may deem appropriate to prepare and maintain lists of persons eligible to vote in Federal, State, and local elections. Such examiners, hearing officers provided for in section 9(a), and other persons deemed necessary by the Commission to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Act shall be appointed, compensated, and separated without regard to the provisions of any statute administered by the Civil Service Commission, and service under this Act shall not be considered employment for the purposes of any statute administered by the Civil Service Commission, except the provisions of section 9 of the Act of August 2, 1939, as amended (5 U.S.C. 118i), prohibiting partisan political activity: Provided, That the Commission is authorized, after consulting the head of the appropriate department or agency, to designate suitable persons in the official service of the United States, with their consent, to serve in these positions. Examiners and hearing officers shall have the power to administer oaths.

Section 7: (a) The examiners for each political subdivision shall, at such places as the Civil Service Commission shall by regulation designate, examine applicants concerning their qualifications for voting. An application to an examiner shall be in such form as the Commission may require and shall contain allegations that the applicant is not otherwise registered to vote.

(b) Any person whom the examiner finds, in accordance with instructions received under section 9(b), to have the qualifications prescribed by State law not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States shall promptly be placed on a list of eligible voters. A challenge to such listing may be made in accordance with section 9(a) and shall not be the basis for a prosecution under section 12 of this Act. The examiner shall certify and transmit such list, and any supplements as appropriate, at least once a month, to the offices of the appropriate election officials, with copies to the Attorney General and the attorney general of the State, and any such lists and supplements thereto transmitted during the month shall be available for public inspection on the last business day of the month and, in any event, not later than the forty-fifth day prior to any election. The appropriate State or local election official shall place such names on the official voting list. Any person whose name appears on the examiner's list shall be entitled and allowed to vote in the election district of his residence unless and until the appropriate election officials shall have been notified that such person has been removed from such list in accordance with subsection (d): Provided, That no person shall be entitled to vote in any election by virtue of this Act unless his name shall have been certified and transmitted on such a list to the offices of the appropriate election officials at least forty-five days prior to such election.

(c) The examiner shall issue to each person whose name appears on such a list a certificate evidencing his eligibility to vote.

(d) A person whose name appears on such a list shall be removed therefrom by an examiner if (1) such person has been successfully challenged in accordance with the procedure prescribed in section 9, or (2) he has been determined by an examiner to have lost his eligibility to vote under State law not inconsistent with the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

Section 8: Whenever an examiner is serving under this Act in any political subdivision, the Civil Service Commission may assign, at the request of the Attorney General, one or more persons, who may be officers of the United States, (1) to enter and attend at any place for holding an election in such subdivision for the purpose of observing whether persons who are entitled to vote are being permitted to vote, and (2) to enter and attend at any place for tabulating the votes cast at any election held in such subdivision for the purpose of observing whether votes cast by persons entitled to vote are being properly tabulated. Such persons so assigned shall report to an examiner appointed for such political subdivision, to the Attorney General, and if the appointment of examiners has been authorized pursuant to section 3(a), to the court.

Section 9: (a) Any challenge to a listing on an eligibility list prepared by an examiner shall be heard and determined by a hearing officer appointed by and responsible to the Civil Service Commission and under such rules as the Commission shall by regulation prescribe. Such challenge shall be entertained only if filed at such office within the State as the Civil Service Commission shall by regulation designate, and within ten days after the listing of the challenged person is made available for public inspection, and if supported by (1) the affidavits of at least two persons having personal knowledge of the facts constituting grounds for the challenge, and (2) a certification that a copy of the challenge and affidavits have been served by mail or in person upon the person challenged at his place of residence set out in the application. Such challenge shall be determined within fifteen days after it has been filed. A petition for review of the decision of the hearing officer may be filed in the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which the person challenged resides within fifteen days after service of such decision by mail on the person petitioning for review but no decision of a hearing officer shall be reversed unless clearly erroneous. Any person listed shall be entitled and allowed to vote pending final determination by the hearing officer and by the court.

(b) The times, places, procedures, and form for application and listing pursuant to this Act and removals from the eligibility lists shall be prescribed by regulations promulgated by the Civil Service Commission and the Commission shall, after consultation with the Attorney General, instruct examiners concerning applicable State law not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States with respect to (1) the qualifications required for listing, and (2) loss of eligibility to vote.

(c) Upon the request of the applicant or the challenger or on its own motion the Civil Service Commission shall have the power to require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence relating to any matter pending before it under the authority of this section. In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena, any district court of the United States or the United States court of any territory or possession, or the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, within the jurisdiction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or is domiciled or transacts business, or has appointed an agent for receipt of service of process, upon application by the Attorney General of the United States shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before the Commission or a hearing officer, there to produce pertinent, relevant, and nonprivileged documentary evidence if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation, and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof.

Section 10: (a) No person acting under color of law shall fail or refuse to permit any person to vote who is entitled to vote under any provision of this Act or is otherwise qualified to vote, or willfully fail or refuse to tabulate, count, and report such person's vote.

(b) No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for exercising any powers or duties under section 3(a), 6, 8, 9, or 11(e).

(c) Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address, or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both: Provided, however, That this provision shall be applicable to any political office.

(d) Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of an examiner or hearing officer knowingly and willfully falsifies or conceals a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Section 11: (a) Whoever shall deprive or attempt to deprive any person of any right secured by section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, or shall violate section 10(a) or (b), shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(b) Whoever, within a year following an election in a political subdivision in which an examiner has been appointed (1) destroys, defaces, mutilates, or otherwise alters the marking of a paper ballot which has been cast in such election, or (2) alters any official record of voting in such election tabulated from a voting machine or otherwise, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both

(c) Whoever conspires to violate the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this section, or interferes with any right secured by section 2, 3 4, 5, 7, or 10(a) or (b) shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(d) Whenever any person has engaged or there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person is about to engage in any act or practice prohibited by section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, or subsection (b) of this section, the Attorney General may institute for the United States, or in the name of the United States, an action for preventive relief, including an application for a temporary or permanent injunction, restraining order, or other order, and including an order directed to the State and State or local election officials to require them (1) to permit persons listed under this Act to vote and (2) to count such votes.

(e) Whenever in any political subdivision in which there are examiners appointed pursuant to this Act any persons allege to such an examiner within forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls that notwithstanding (1) their listing under this Act or registration by an appropriate election official and (2) their eligibility to vote, they have not been permitted to vote in such election, the examiner shall forthwith notify the Attorney General if such allegations in his opinion appear to be well founded. Upon receipt of such notification, the Attorney General may forthwith file with the district court an application for an order providing for the marking, casting, and counting of the ballots of such persons and requiring the inclusion of their votes in the total vote before the results of such election shall be deemed final and any force or effect given thereto. The district court shall hear and determine such matters immediately after the filing of such application. The remedy provided in this subsection shall not preclude any remedy available under State or Federal law.

(f) The district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section and shall exercise the same without regard to whether a person asserting rights under the provisions of this Act shall have exhausted any administrative or other remedies that may be provided by law

Section 12: Listing procedures shall be terminated in any political subdivision of any State (a) with respect to examiners appointed pursuant to clause (b) of section 6 whenever the Attorney General notifies the Civil Service Commission, or whenever the District Court for the District of Columbia determines in an action for declaratory judgment brought by any political subdivision with respect to which the Director of the Census has determined that more than 80 percentum of the nonwhite of voting age residing therein are registered to vote, (1) that all persons listed by an examiner for such subdivision have been placed on the appropriate voting registration roll, and (2) that there is no longer reasonable cause to believe that persons will be deprived of or denied the right to vote on account of race or color in such subdivision, and (b), with respect to examiners appointed pursuant to section 3(a), upon order of the authorizing court. A political subdivision may petition the Attorney General for the termination of listing procedures under clause (a) of this section, and may petition the Attorney General to request the Director of the Census to take such survey or census as may be appropriate for the making of the determination provided for in this section. The District Court for the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction to require such survey or census to be made by the Director of the Census and it shall require him to do so if it deems the Attorney General's refusal to request such survey or census to be arbitrary or unreasonable.

Section 13: (a) All cases of criminal contempt arising under the provisions of this Act shall be governed by section 151 of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (42 U.S.C.1995).

(b) No court other than the District Court for the District of Columbia or a court of appeals in any proceeding under section 9 shall have jurisdiction to issue any declaratory judgment pursuant to section 4 or section 5 or any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction against the execution or enforcement of any provision of this Act or any action of any Federal officer or employee pursuant hereto.

(c)
(1) The terms "vote" or "voting" shall include all action necessary to make a vote effective in any primary, special, or general election, including, but not limited to, registration, listing pursuant to this Act, or other action required by law prerequisite to voting, casting a ballot, and having such ballot counted properly and included in the appropriate totals of votes cast with respect to candidates for public or party office and propositions for which votes are received in an election.
(2) The term "political subdivision" shall mean any county or parish, except that, where registration for voting is not conducted under the supervision of a county or parish, the term shall include any other subdivision of a State which conducts registration for voting.

(d) In any action for a declaratory judgment brought pursuant to section 4 or section 5 of this Act, subpoenas for witnesses who are required to attend the District Court for the District of Columbia may be served in any judicial district of the United States: Provided, That no writ of subpoena shall issue for witnesses without the District of Columbia at a greater distance than one hundred miles from the place of holding court without the permission of the District Court for the District of Columbia being first had upon proper application and cause shown.

Section 14: The Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, jointly, shall make a full and complete study to determine whether, under the laws or practices of any State or States, there are preconditions to voting, which might tend to result in discrimination against citizens serving in the Armed Forces of the United States seeking to vote. Such officials shall, jointly, make a report to the Congress not later than June 30, 1961, containing the results of such study, together with a list of any States in which such preconditions exist, and shall include in such report such recommendations for legislation as they deem advisable to prevent discrimination in voting against citizens serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.

Section 15: Nothing in this Act shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise adversely affect the right to vote of any person registered to vote under the law of any State or political subdivision.

Section 16: There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act

Section 17: If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

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This bill is then honorably presented to the Senate for consideration in order to enforce the 15th Amendment to improve the United States Law and is backed by Emily Nelson on January 6, 1960

Count Byrne on board in the House.

Good, so he can introduce it in the house so it can pass faster.

[Union Princes]

Gonna be attempting to write a few bill drafts for Joyner

The SAFE Act
The PHD Act
The BLUE Act

Same with Disney
The Dollar Diplomacy
The Banana Act
The Castle Doctrine

Oddly enough, all of those acts from Joyner don’t sound too bad. For Disney, they all sound like things that both Gary and Long would oppose like hell, and then Gary would speak softly about it to newspapers, whilst saying “there is some reason to it”, and Long would go shout obscenities to a crowd that might storm on the capital. Anyhow, can Disney actually write a bill? He isn’t in congress…

Neither of the characters can since these are for the future. Right now, Joyner and Disney are trying to start their political careers. These are like for 1964, 1968 and 1972 plans

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

I think I should ask. Sao Nova Europa, can we apply for some characters as basically one beat characters, or minor characters?

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

Oddly enough, all of those acts from Joyner don’t sound too bad. For Disney, they all sound like things that both Gary and Long would oppose like hell, and then Gary would speak softly about it to newspapers, whilst saying “there is some reason to it”, and Long would go shout obscenities to a crowd that might storm on the capital. Anyhow, can Disney actually write a bill? He isn’t in congress…

Neither of the characters can since these are for the future. Right now, Joyner and Disney are trying to start their political careers. These are like for 1964, 1968 and 1972 plans

What would they entail? I mean, from the names of the Disney ones, well, Long is going to “over my dead body” + several expletives, it. Gary is going to calmly reject them, whilst saying “they have a point”.

Meanwhile, the Joyner ones all seem, generally rational.

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

I’m thinking of writing speeches that sum up my characters. For Long, it’ll probably be something like:

“We will be serfs to Wall Street no more! It’s time for the oppressed and forgotten masses to be represented in the halls of power! If I can’t work with you all, then I will work against you all, and if you do not heed my warnings to change, and to distribute the wealth to the Lord’s holy plans, then in 6 months, the workin’ people of this country will come batterin’ through those doors, and I’m trying to make up my mind whether to stay in here with you, or to lead ‘em!”

[Union Princes]

Joyner's

SAFE Act - Saving American Fundamental Exceptionalism - Allows for the Federal Government to punish media outlets and journalists with impunity under the pretenses of spreading misinformation, treason, slander, libel, and harassment of federal employees; as well as defaming the principles and integrity of the spirit of the US. Creates a Federal Department dedicated to media censorship and public informational correctness.

PHD Act - Patriotic History Defense - Promotes White Supremacy and Eurocentrism in the field of academics and schools while enabling heavy legal discrimination against all non-whites in the US. All of them experience legal barriers when trying to become educators and scholars while those who have the title face a sharp decline in wages, loss of pensions, legal harassment from the Blue Legion and Klan, and harassment by the student body. Anyone who doesn't conform to the "Patriotic History Theory" will be slapped with a Felony.

The BLUE Act - Blue Legion Universal Extension - Codifies and legalizes the existence of the Blue Legion as a private organization to the same level as the Boy Scouts; which also expands its duties to include poll watching, voter registration, and young adult training camps. Akin to the Nazi Brownshirts during the 1930s before they got purged in the Night of the Long Knives.

Disney's

Dollar Diplomacy - What happens when the British India Company was dictated by the Truman Doctrine? This policy would empower American corporations to seek out and exploit vulnerable nations of their resources in the name of denying the Fascists first pick. Cultural and Economic imperialism on steroids as Disney would use the Free Trade principle to endorse US corporations to take over the economies of allied states in the Alliance of Free Nations, making them permanently dependent on the US economy to prosper.

The Banana Act - Allows corporations to create their own security forces, form local governments, and publically endorse candidates to protect their foreign assets. Grants the Federal Government the exclusive right to itself the ability to interfere with foreign elections and political establishments when these corporate interests are threatened. If Venezuela nationalized the oil fields, Mickey Mouse will come knocking and overthrow that head-of-state, replacing the Venezuelan government with a corporate entity under Goofy.

Castle Doctrine - If Reaganomics was a game of monopoly. Disney hopes by controlling all of the world's natural resources under a price tag, he would force Germany into submission by constricting its purchasing power while bloating the US military budget for the sake of scaring Germany to do the same. If Germany wants more oil, buy from America. If Germany wants more food, buy from America. If Germany wants more land, buy from America. Disney believes this would force Germany into bankruptcy and fall apart internally or at least force them to adopt autarky and thus stagnate their growth.

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

Joyner's

SAFE Act - Saving American Fundamental Exceptionalism - Allows for the Federal Government to punish media outlets and journalists with impunity under the pretenses of spreading misinformation, treason, slander, libel, and harassment of federal employees; as well as defaming the principles and integrity of the spirit of the US. Creates a Federal Department dedicated to media censorship and public informational correctness.

PHD Act - Patriotic History Defense - Promotes White Supremacy and Eurocentrism in the field of academics and schools while enabling heavy legal discrimination against all non-whites in the US. All of them experience legal barriers when trying to become educators and scholars while those who have the title face a sharp decline in wages, loss of pensions, legal harassment from the Blue Legion and Klan, and harassment by the student body. Anyone who doesn't conform to the "Patriotic History Theory" will be slapped with a Felony.

The BLUE Act - Blue Legion Universal Extension - Codifies and legalizes the existence of the Blue Legion as a private organization to the same level as the Boy Scouts; which also expands its duties to include poll watching, voter registration, and young adult training camps. Akin to the Nazi Brownshirts during the 1930s before they got purged in the Night of the Long Knives.

Disney's

Dollar Diplomacy - What happens when the British India Company was dictated by the Truman Doctrine? This policy would empower American corporations to seek out and exploit vulnerable nations of their resources in the name of denying the Fascists first pick. Cultural and Economic imperialism on steroids as Disney would use the Free Trade principle to endorse US corporations to take over the economies of allied states in the Alliance of Free Nations, making them permanently dependent on the US economy to prosper.

The Banana Act - Allows corporations to create their own security forces, form local governments, and publically endorse candidates to protect their foreign assets. Grants the Federal Government the exclusive right to itself the ability to interfere with foreign elections and political establishments when these corporate interests are threatened. If Venezuela nationalized the oil fields, Mickey Mouse will come knocking and overthrow that head-of-state, replacing the Venezuelan government with a corporate entity under Goofy.

Castle Doctrine - If Reaganomics was a game of monopoly. Disney hopes by controlling all of the world's natural resources under a price tag, he would force Germany into submission by constricting its purchasing power while bloating the US military budget for the sake of scaring Germany to do the same. If Germany wants more oil, buy from America. If Germany wants more food, buy from America. If Germany wants more land, buy from America. Disney believes this would force Germany into bankruptcy and fall apart internally or at least force them to adopt autarky and thus stagnate their growth.

So, oddly enough, Long would probably support the SAFE act. Meanwhile, both Gary and Long would be against literally everything else, and Long would probably go ahead and eat the bill. And Graythorpe would probably need someone to talk him off of a ledge.

Anyhow, they’re gonna need, like, all of congress (except some Dixiecrats. Some.) to suddenly die, for any of that o pass.

[Union Princes]

Long would die from eating all that paper of Joyner's bill

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

Long would die from eating all that paper of Joyner's bill

Have ya seen the man!

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Joyner's

SAFE Act - Saving American Fundamental Exceptionalism - Allows for the Federal Government to punish media outlets and journalists with impunity under the pretenses of spreading misinformation, treason, slander, libel, and harassment of federal employees; as well as defaming the principles and integrity of the spirit of the US. Creates a Federal Department dedicated to media censorship and public informational correctness.

PHD Act - Patriotic History Defense - Promotes White Supremacy and Eurocentrism in the field of academics and schools while enabling heavy legal discrimination against all non-whites in the US. All of them experience legal barriers when trying to become educators and scholars while those who have the title face a sharp decline in wages, loss of pensions, legal harassment from the Blue Legion and Klan, and harassment by the student body. Anyone who doesn't conform to the "Patriotic History Theory" will be slapped with a Felony.

The BLUE Act - Blue Legion Universal Extension - Codifies and legalizes the existence of the Blue Legion as a private organization to the same level as the Boy Scouts; which also expands its duties to include poll watching, voter registration, and young adult training camps. Akin to the Nazi Brownshirts during the 1930s before they got purged in the Night of the Long Knives.

Disney's

Dollar Diplomacy - What happens when the British India Company was dictated by the Truman Doctrine? This policy would empower American corporations to seek out and exploit vulnerable nations of their resources in the name of denying the Fascists first pick. Cultural and Economic imperialism on steroids as Disney would use the Free Trade principle to endorse US corporations to take over the economies of allied states in the Alliance of Free Nations, making them permanently dependent on the US economy to prosper.

The Banana Act - Allows corporations to create their own security forces, form local governments, and publically endorse candidates to protect their foreign assets. Grants the Federal Government the exclusive right to itself the ability to interfere with foreign elections and political establishments when these corporate interests are threatened. If Venezuela nationalized the oil fields, Mickey Mouse will come knocking and overthrow that head-of-state, replacing the Venezuelan government with a corporate entity under Goofy.

Castle Doctrine - If Reaganomics was a game of monopoly. Disney hopes by controlling all of the world's natural resources under a price tag, he would force Germany into submission by constricting its purchasing power while bloating the US military budget for the sake of scaring Germany to do the same. If Germany wants more oil, buy from America. If Germany wants more food, buy from America. If Germany wants more land, buy from America. Disney believes this would force Germany into bankruptcy and fall apart internally or at least force them to adopt autarky and thus stagnate their growth.

Well, I can say that this Robert would quietly want to first to pass so everyone that supports any of these except maybe 4 and 6 can be thrown in jail.

[Sao Nova Europa]

I think I should ask. Sao Nova Europa, can we apply for some characters as basically one beat characters, or minor characters?

No.

I mean, you can mention in an RP post that your assistant is a young guy called Jimmy or that your chief strategist is an elderly economist called John and have them converse with your character, but no apps and use such minor characters as NPCs.

[Bogmia]

I think I should ask. Sao Nova Europa, can we apply for some characters as basically one beat characters, or minor characters?

No.

I mean, you can mention in an RP post that your assistant is a young guy called Jimmy or that your chief strategist is an elderly economist called John and have them converse with your character, but no apps and use such minor characters as NPCs.

I finally revised my applicasion

[Laka Strolistandiler]

I’m thinking of writing speeches that sum up my characters. For Long, it’ll probably be something like:

“We will be serfs to Wall Street no more! It’s time for the oppressed and forgotten masses to be represented in the halls of power! If I can’t work with you all, then I will work against you all, and if you do not heed my warnings to change, and to distribute the wealth to the Lord’s holy plans, then in 6 months, the workin’ people of this country will come batterin’ through those doors, and I’m trying to make up my mind whether to stay in here with you, or to lead ‘em!”

Eh, I’ll try my hand at this too

“Well, we’ve got a job to do, so let’s get to it. As you know, I will always be the one to lead you into the mission, and I couldn’t care less about what the pencil-pushers back in Washington have to say about it. I will do my best to bring as many as I can back home safe and sound- that is my primary goal, simple as. Do as you’re told, if permitted, deviate to the best of your judgement, experience and training and we will all be merry. And remember- NEVER, I say again, NEVER break the ROE’s. I will have you court-martialed if you do- we have these things for a good bloody reason…”
-Vonner to some USAF airmen

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

I’m thinking of writing speeches that sum up my characters. For Long, it’ll probably be something like:

“We will be serfs to Wall Street no more! It’s time for the oppressed and forgotten masses to be represented in the halls of power! If I can’t work with you all, then I will work against you all, and if you do not heed my warnings to change, and to distribute the wealth to the Lord’s holy plans, then in 6 months, the workin’ people of this country will come batterin’ through those doors, and I’m trying to make up my mind whether to stay in here with you, or to lead ‘em!”

Eh, I’ll try my hand at this too

“Well, we’ve got a job to do, so let’s get to it. As you know, I will always be the one to lead you into the mission, and I couldn’t care less about what the pencil-pushers back in Washington have to say about it. I will do my best to bring as many as I can back home safe and sound- that is my primary goal, simple as. Do as you’re told, if permitted, deviate to the best of your judgement, experience and training and we will all be merry. And remember- NEVER, I say again, NEVER break the ROE’s. I will have you court-martialed if you do- we have these things for a good bloody reason…”
-Vonner to some USAF airmen

Nice! That’s pretty good. Gives me some serious General Mattis vibes.

[The Rio Grande River Basin]

“Well, look. I don’t have any dislike for the guy. I genuinely don’t. He’s a good, he’s a good, decent family man, who I just so happen to have fundamental disagreements with. And you have nothing to fear, with him as your governor, and please, let’s keep some decency in this campaign? So, for the good of us all, I give a toast to, my opponent, and my good friend.”
-Governor Gary on a Gubernatorial opponent.

“We want change! We, the young, the forgotten, we want change! We want healthcare. We want civil rights. Our work will never be done, until everyone in the greatest country on earth, can feed, house, and take care of themselves. We want our friends, the fathers, the brothers, the sons, to come home. So I say, Come Home America!”
-Governor Graythorpe at a rally

[Sao Nova Europa]

[Final app for me. This character is for your politicians to give interviews to]

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Character Application and Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Sao Nova Europa
Character Name: Michael Jackson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 35
Character Date of Birth: 2 April 1925
Character Position/Role/Job:

Editor-in-Chief of National Review (1955 - present)
Host of Firing Line (1959 - )

Character Country/State of Birth: Arkansas
Character State of Residence: Washington DC
Character Party Affiliation: Republican
Faceclaim: William F. Buckley
Main Strengths: Great author, great following among conservative circles, son of war hero
Main Weaknesses: Overshadowed by his father, accusations of nepotism and privilege, considered "far right" by some
Biography:

Michael Jackson is the only son of Jonathan Jackson and Louise Cromwell Brooks. He was born on 2 April 1925. From a young age, he received the best private education his parents could afford him. He showed a love for music, sailing, horses, hunting, and skiing. Despite his stellar grades and good physique, he was a rather shy individual and lacked charisma, especially compared to his famous father.

When the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor, he was too young to fight in the war. His father's victories in the Pacific War affected him, by giving the young teenager great publicity. When he went to church, there was always a huge crowd watching him and all the parents wanted their daughters to dance with "the General's son", though Michael was somewhat reserved and hated that attention. Despite his displeasure, though, the attention given to him forced him to become far more sociable than he wanted and to advance his social skills.

In 1943, he enrolled at Yale University, where he studied political science, history, and economics, graduating with honors in 1948. He excelled on the Yale Debate Team; under the tutelage of Yale professor Rollin G. Osterweis, Michael honed his acerbic style. In 1951, Michael published his book, God and Man at Yale. Offering a critique of Yale University, Michael argued in the book that the school had strayed from its original mission by attacking the religiosity of students and pushing them to embrace liberalism. Being promoted by his father, the book became a hit amongst conservatives.

In 1955, with financial aid from his family, Michael founded the National Review, a conservative magazine that hoped to promote into the mainstream libertarian economics, social conservatism, and neoconservatism. Over the years, the magazine would gain increased prominence in conservative circles and would come to influence the conservative wing of the Republican Party, promoting the fusionism of traditional conservatives and libertarians. Michael brought together three powerful and partially contradictory intellectual currents that previously had largely been independent of each other: libertarianism, traditionalism, and militarism. He would play a crucial role in turning the conservative movement from an isolationist movement to one committed to the fight against "godless National Socialism". As Michael would write, "fascist dictatorship tends towards a pagan Caesarism, towards a new state that knows no limits of a legal or moral order".

At the same time, though, Michael and the magazine caused controversy. Michael strongly criticized elements of the administration of his father, President Jackson, as "too moderate" and published articles calling for the abolition of social security. However, he also strongly backed American intervention in Free France and praised his father for it. Some of his articles warned that decolonization could lead to a collapse of American influence in Africa as "the colored people in Africa are not yet ready for self-determination and attempts to decolonization could lead to widespread anarchy and civil conflict across the region". Michael also wrote critiques against the staunchest civil rights advocates, causing some to criticize him as being a covert supporter of segregation. Michael criticized attempts by the federal government to impose desegregation as a "violation of states' rights".

Michael and his editors also used the National Review to define the boundaries of conservatism and to exclude people, ideas, or groups they considered unworthy of the conservative title. Michael denounced radical libertarians, white supremacists, and anti-Semites. On April 4, 1959, Michael became the host of Firing Line (at PBS), an hour-long public affairs show (including breaks) for commercial television. The show has become a success and enjoys high ratings.

Other Info: He is still single.

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