How to Senate: a helpful guide by /u/realnyebevan

Hey senators and other people reading this!

If you’ve just been elected, congratulations! If not, congratulations too! This easy guide to the Senate will hopefully answer all questions you might have.

An intro to us clerks

I’m /u/realnyebevan, also known as Idris, and I’m the senate clerk. I do pretty much all of the things in the senate: I update the master spreadsheet and docket, move stuff in committees, post committee and floor amendments, committee votes, and I post legislation to the main subreddit.

I can answer any of your questions. I can be reached on reddit or on discord at Idris (realnyebevan) #1768.

/u/CincinnatusoftheWest is the head federal clerk. He posts floor votes in /r/ModelUSSenate.

He can be reached on reddit or on discord at CincinnatusoftheWest#3247.

Bills

As a senator, you can submit bills. You should send completed bills to the Senate modmail at /r/ModelUSSenate. To send legislation to the Senate modmail, go to /r/ModelUSSenate, simply scroll down to the bottom of the sidebar to the list of moderators, then click “message the moderators.”

In your modmail, you should include

• The bill, or a link to the bill in pastebin or google docs

• If you have the bill in Google Docs or pastebin, it should be somewhat in reddit format.

• If there are references to passed legislation in the bill, there MUST be a link to said legislation.

• The title of the bill, either in the modmail or in the Google Doc

• The list of any sponsors or cosponsors. Sponsors and cosponsors should only be people who are currently in Congress.

Do not include statements in your bill submission. I can’t store those and you should post those yourself in the bill’s discussion.

Bills concerning revenue must originate in the House of Representatives.

Bill discussion and the docket

After you submit a bill, I will add it to the docket (a list of bills which were submitted). The docket can be found on the master spreadsheet, which is on the sidebar of /r/ModelUSGov. I will post one senate bill each day to /r/ModelUSGov for discussion, IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE SUBMITTED. If the Senate Majority Leader consents, your bill can be moved to the top of the docket.

Bills are discussed on the main subreddit once they have reached the top of the docket. During the discussion, which is forty-eight hours, you can change the bill by sending any edits to the modmail.

Committee

While bills are discussed on /r/ModelUSGov, I will send the bill to a committee. There are four committees:

• Foreign Affairs Committee - /r/ModelSenateFACom

• Health, Science, and Environment Committee - /r/ModelSenateEnviroCom

• Commerce, Finance, and Labor Committee - /r/ModelSenateFinanceCom

• Judiciary, Local Government, and Oversight Committee - /r/ModelSenateJudiciCom

If eight senators agree, a bill may bypass committees completely and proceed to the Senate floor.

I will send it to the committee that I thinks it belongs in, unless you specify that it should go to a different committee. You should request which committee it goes to through Senate modmail. If ANY senator disagrees to the committee you’ve chosen, the Vice President will make the final decision.

In committee, I will make an amendment proposal thread. I will leave this thread open for two days, unless the committee chairperson decides to leave it open for longer. The committee chairperson should make this decision by commenting on the amendment proposal thread. The chairperson may leave the amendment thread open for NO LONGER than 21 days.

Any senator may propose amendments in this thread. Amendments should be formatted like so:

Amend Section x to read: “xxx”

Strike Section x

Add “x” to Section x

After the amendment thread closes, the chair can proceed to: EITHER have the amendments go to amendment vote, OR Reject all amendments and move the bill unamended to a floor vote.

If the legislation is amended, the amendment vote will be up for no more than 48 hours, unless the chairperson asks for it to be open for longer - but no longer than ninety-six hours. If all committee members have voted in less than 48 hours, I will close the vote.

I will move bills to a floor vote after they have completed the amendment vote. Floor votes will last two days.

You may save a bill which has died in committee by collecting the signatures of eight senators.

The Floor of the Senate

All bills which have passed or bypassed senate committee and all legislation which has passed the House of Representatives which is NOT a house resolution shall proceed to the senate floor.

Senate legislation will proceed to amendment proposal. Any senator may propose amendments in this thread. Amendments should be formatted like so:

Amend Section x to read: “xxx”

Strike Section x

Add “x” to Section x

After forty-eight hours, any amendments will go to a vote UNLESS the Majority Leader decides to discard all of the amendments and send the legislation straight to the floor.

Amendment votes will last two days unless all senators have voted. You should vote on amendment votes as follows:

Amendment 1: Yea/Nay/Present

Amendment 2: Yea/Nay/Present

After amendment votes, CincinnatusoftheWest will post a floor vote on Senate legislator and all legislation which has proceeded to the Senate from the House. All legislation requires a plurality of votes, except for:

• Constitutional amendments, which require ⅔ of present and voting senators

• Treaties, which require ⅔ of present and voting senators

• Impeachments, which require eight senators voting in favor

If the Senate is equally divided between yeas and nays, the Vice President shall break the tie.

Passed legislation shall proceed as follows:

• Senate bills shall proceed to the House floor

• House bills shall proceed to the President

• Senate chamber resolutions shall pass

• House concurrent resolutions shall pass

• Senate concurrent resolutions shall proceed to the House floor

• Senate joint resolutions shall proceed to the House floor

• House joint resolutions shall proceed to the President

• Unless it is a constitutional amendment, at which point it shall proceed to the state legislatures

None of the above applies to budget legislation, which shall proceed as directed by Public Law S. 649.

Presidential nominees

The President nominates cabinet secretaries and other administration officials for congressional confirmation. After the President notifies the moderators of nominees, the moderators shall post a nomination hearing. As a senator, you may ask questions of the nominees.

After the hearing is finished, the Senate shall vote on the nominees. A plurality of senators vote for the nominee, they are confirmed.

Conference Committees

If the House amends Senate legislation, the legislation shall proceed to a conference committee of three senators and three representatives. Two senators shall be selected by the Majority Leader, and one senator shall be selected by the Minority Leader to serve.

The conference committee shall amend the legislation and pass a compromise version of the legislation by plurality vote in favor. After a compromise version is passed in the conference committee, it shall be voted on by each chamber.

Removal from the Senate

You can be removed from the Senate or you may leave the Senate through the following methods:

• You must vote. Failure to vote shall result in your removal from the senate.

• You may be removed by ⅔ of your colleagues voting in the affirmative to expel you.

• You may resign by posting your resignation to /r/ModelUSSenate or to modmail.

• You may be impeached by a majority of the House and convicted by ⅔ of the senate.

• You may be defeated in re-election.

• You can choose to retire once your term is finished.

Thank you for reading, and good luck in this session and beyond.

VOTE

The Teaching Language Expansion Academic Program Act

*Whereas starting additional languages at an early age has proven success at fluency in other countries.

Whereas introducing the very basics of other languages to students at an early age can build language foundations for future learning of said languages at a later date.

Whereas learning other languages at an early age will inspire children to learn other cultures.*

SECTION. 1. SHORT TITLE.

This act shall be referred to as the T-LEAP Act

SECTION. 2. DEFINITIONS.

“Elementary School” shall be defined as a term that encompasses the grades K-4.

SECTION. 3. EARLY LANGUAGE.

a. The Secretary of Education is hereby instructed to create standards to create a program in elementary school systems to introduce the basics of Spanish, French, and/or Mandarin Chinese to students.

b. The US Department of Education shall recommend to the states the standards mentioned in Section 3(a) of this act.

(i)The Secretary of Education may administer a grant to schools that meet the Department’s criteria exceeding no more than $50,000 per fiscal year per school.

(1)The amount of funds used by this grant shall exceed no more than $500,000,000 per fiscal year.

c. Each state shall determine an age-appropriate curriculum for each language in consultation with the Department of Education, provided that each curriculum is geared towards each student's general proficiency in their respective language.

SECTION. 4. IMPLEMENTATION

a. This Act will go into effect for the 2019-2020 school year.

b. This Act is severable. If any portion of this act is found to be unconstitutional, the remainder shall remain as law.

Will the incoming Senator please take this oath:

I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.

Hearing

Here are the cabinet nominees:

Secretary of State: /u/WIA16

Secretary of Defense: /u/goldencapitalist

Attorney General: /u/SolidOrangeGangsta

Secretary of Agriculture: /u/Slothiel

Secretary of Labor: /u/zerooverzero101

Secretary of Homeland Security: /u/comped

Secretary of Energy: /u/PoisonChocolate

Secretary of Education: /u/FirstComrade17

Secretary of Veteran's Affairs: /u/viktard

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: /u/Crickwich

For each cabinet nominee, I will post a top-level comment. Vote by replying to that comment with yea/nay/abstain.

As most may know by now, I am honored to have been chosen as Head Federal Clerk, a member of the /r/ModelUSGov Triumvirate. In accordance with tradition, I will be resigning my Senate seat in Great Lakes.

I will give my seat to /u/gaidz, an esteemed member of our sim, and someone who has been in the Senate previously. I believe he will serve this seat dutifully, and I wish him the best of luck.

I have enjoyed my time here in the Senate, having gotten to know many great friends and colleagues, and expanding my political viewpoints as well. This will be a short one for it's not really a goodbye, I'll still be around as the bill poster!

See you all then,

/u/btownbomb

Hi!

I'm trying something a bit new for the Senate.

Each week or so (probably every eight days or so), I'll post a thread where any senator can post a speech or personal statement or something of that matter. Any senator is free to discuss things in this thread (in a parliamentary manner).

Let me know how you all feel about it.

Best,

Idris.

AMENDMENT IN BOLD: VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT

THE SWF ESTABLISHMENT ACT

In order to help stabilize unpredictable financial markets and aid in the acquiring of long-term assets:

Be it established by the Senate and House of Representatives here assembled, that:

Section I: Definitions

(a) A home shall be deemed ‘vacant’ if it remains unoccupied for a period of ten (10) or more years based upon the year of 2012. A housing facility must house at least 10% of its stated maximum occupancy to be deemed in use.

(b) “Corporate inversion” shall be defined as the practice of relocating a corporation's legal domicile to a lower-tax nation, or tax haven, usually while retaining its material operations in its higher-tax country of origin.

(c) “Corporate reorganization” shall be defined as a merging or restructuring of a firm. This term shall also apply to an acquisition or sale of of one company or firm to another.

(d) “Sovereign Wealth Fund” shall be defined as a state owned investment fund that invests in stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, alternative sources of energy, health savings accounts, and debt repayment.

(e)“American firm” shall refer to any firm that has its legal domicile in the United States.

Section II: Funding for a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF)

(a) American firms with a net worth of over $125 million that seek corporate inversion in an area outside of the United States shall be required to pay a relocation tax of 2.5% of all operating costs involved in the relocation process.

(b) American firms that attempt corporate reorganization, yet retain 50% of an old company's shareholders shall remain under U.S. jurisdiction.

(c.) Owners of vacant homes or housing facilities shall be required to pay an annual tax of 10% of the fair market valuation of their vacated home or housing facility.

(i) Alternatively, owners may elect to pay a 5% tax after five years of vacancy in lieu of the original tax mentioned in II(C).

(ii)Homes or housing facilities must be unoccupied without any of the exemptions outlined in subclauses (iii) or (iv) of this Clause for the entirety of a calendar year for this tax to apply.

(iii) This tax shall not apply to disaster relief shelters nor homeless relief shelters.

(iv) This tax shall not apply to homes or housing facilities that are unfit for human habitation by cause of construction, renovation, health code violations on the level of any jurisdiction that apply to the home or housing facility's location, evacuation orders issued by Federal or local authorities, acts of war, acts of terrorism, disasters including but not limited to fire, flood, tornado, hurricane, or earthquake, or other extenuating circumstances to be named later via an Executive Order issued by the President of the United States or a member of his/her Cabinet.

(v) No language in this bill shall be interpreted in a way that impedes the ability of states, cities, counties, townships, or other local jurisdictions from implementing their own variations of housing vacancy taxes.

Section III: The Establishment of a new SWF

The United States shall establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund using funds raised in Section II of this bill.

Section IV: Enactment

This Act shall go into effect one year after its passage into law.

Written by: Sen. /u/ExpensiveFoodstuffs (Dist. SG)

HEARING: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModelUSGov/comments/6snrcj/secretaries_of_labor_defense_housing_and_urban/

Please reply to each top level comment with your vote for that person.

BILL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModelUSGov/comments/6s1cr3/sres_23_resolution_concerning_diversity_and/

Vote.

How to Senate: a helpful guide by /u/realnyebevan

Hey senators and other people reading this!

If you’ve just been elected, congratulations! If not, congratulations too! This easy guide to the Senate will hopefully answer all questions you might have.

An intro to us clerks

I’m /u/realnyebevan, also known as Idris, and I’m the senate clerk. I do pretty much all of the things in the senate: I update the master spreadsheet and docket, move stuff in committees, post committee and floor amendments, committee votes, and I post legislation to the main subreddit.

I can answer any of your questions. I can be reached on reddit or on discord at Idris (realnyebevan) #1768.

/u/btownbomb is the head federal clerk. He posts floor votes in /r/ModelUSSenate.

He can be reached on reddit or on discord at btownbomb#0758.

Bills

As a senator, you can submit bills. You should send completed bills to the Senate modmail at /r/ModelUSSenate. To send legislation to the Senate modmail, go to /r/ModelUSSenate, simply scroll down to the bottom of the sidebar to the list of moderators, then click “message the moderators.”

In your modmail, you must include

• The bill, or a link to the bill in pastebin or google docs

• If you have the bill in Google Docs or pastebin, it should be somewhat in reddit format.

• If there are references to passed legislation in the bill, there MUST be a link to said legislation.

• The title of the bill, either in the modmail or in the Google Doc

• The list of any sponsors or cosponsors. Sponsors and cosponsors should only be people who are currently in Congress.

Do not include statements in your bill submission. I can’t store those and you should post those yourself in the bill’s discussion.

Bills concerning revenue must originate in the House of Representatives.

Bill discussion and the docket

After you submit a bill, I will add it to the docket (a list of bills which were submitted). The docket can be found on the master spreadsheet, which is on the sidebar of /r/ModelUSGov. I will post one senate bill each day to /r/ModelUSGov for discussion, IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE SUBMITTED. If the Senate Majority Leader consents, your bill can be moved to the top of the docket.

Bills are discussed on the main subreddit once they have reached the top of the docket. During the discussion, which is forty-eight hours, you can change the bill by sending any edits to the modmail.

Committee

While bills are discussed on /r/ModelUSGov, I will send the bill to a committee. There are four committees:

• Foreign Affairs Committee - /r/ModelSenateFACom

• Health, Science, and Environment Committee - /r/ModelSenateEnviroCom

• Commerce, Finance, and Labor Committee - /r/ModelSenateFinanceCom

• Judiciary, Local Government, and Oversight Committee - /r/ModelSenateJudiciCom

If eight senators agree OR the Senate Majority Leader agrees, a bill may bypass committees completely and proceed to the Senate floor.

I will send it to the committee that I think it belongs in, unless you specify that it should go to a different committee. You should request which committee it goes to through Senate modmail. If ANY senator disagrees to the committee you’ve chosen, the Vice President will make the final decision.

In committee, I will make an amendment proposal thread. I will leave this thread open for two days, unless the committee chairperson decides to leave it open for longer. The committee chairperson should make this decision by commenting on the amendment proposal thread. The chairperson may leave the amendment thread open for NO LONGER than 21 days.

Any senator may propose amendments in this thread. Amendments should be formatted like so:

Amend Section x to read: “xxx”

Strike Section x

Add “x” to Section x

After the amendment thread closes, the chair can proceed to: EITHER have the amendments go to amendment vote, OR Reject all amendments and move the bill unamended to a floor vote.

If the legislation is amended, the amendment vote will be up for no more than 48 hours, unless the chairperson asks for it to be open for longer - but no longer than ninety-six hours. If all committee members have voted in less than 48 hours, I will close the vote.

I will move bills to a floor vote after they have completed the amendment vote. Floor votes will last two days.

You may save a bill which has died in committee by collecting the signatures of eight senators.

The Floor of the Senate

All bills which have passed or bypassed senate committee and all legislation which has passed the House of Representatives which is NOT a house resolution shall proceed to the senate floor.

Senate legislation will proceed to amendment proposal. Any senator may propose amendments in this thread. Amendments should be formatted like so:

Amend Section x to read: “xxx”

Strike Section x

Add “x” to Section x

After forty-eight hours, any amendments will go to a vote UNLESS the Majority Leader decides to discard all of the amendments and send the legislation straight to the floor.

Amendment votes will last two days unless all senators have voted. You should vote on amendment votes as follows:

Amendment 1: Yea/Nay/Present

Amendment 2: Yea/Nay/Present

After amendment votes, CincinnatusoftheWest will post a floor vote on Senate legislator and all legislation which has proceeded to the Senate from the House. All legislation requires a plurality of votes, except for:

• Constitutional amendments, which require ⅔ of present and voting senators

• Treaties, which require ⅔ of present and voting senators

• Impeachments, which require eight senators voting in favor

If the Senate is equally divided between yeas and nays, the Vice President shall break the tie.

Passed legislation shall proceed as follows:

• Senate bills shall proceed to House committee

• House bills shall proceed to the President

• Senate chamber resolutions shall pass

• House concurrent resolutions shall pass

• Senate concurrent resolutions shall proceed to the House floor

• Senate joint resolutions shall proceed to the House floor

• House joint resolutions shall proceed to the President

• Unless it is a constitutional amendment, at which point it shall proceed to the state legislatures

None of the above applies to budget legislation, which shall proceed as directed by Public Law S. 649.

Presidential nominees

The President nominates cabinet secretaries and other administration officials for congressional confirmation. After the President notifies the moderators of nominees, the moderators shall post a nomination hearing. As a senator, you may ask questions of the nominees.

After the hearing is finished, the Senate shall vote on the nominees. A plurality of senators vote for the nominee, they are confirmed.

Conference Committees

If the House amends Senate legislation, the legislation shall proceed to a conference committee of three senators and three representatives. Two senators shall be selected by the Majority Leader, and one senator shall be selected by the Minority Leader to serve.

The conference committee shall amend the legislation and pass a compromise version of the legislation by plurality vote in favor. After a compromise version is passed in the conference committee, it shall be voted on by each chamber.

Removal from the Senate

You can be removed from the Senate or you may leave the Senate through the following methods:

• You must vote. Failure to vote shall result in your removal from the senate.

• You may be removed by ⅔ of your colleagues voting in the affirmative to expel you.

• You may resign by posting your resignation to /r/ModelUSSenate or to modmail.

• You may be impeached by a majority of the House and convicted by ⅔ of the senate.

• You may be defeated in re-election.

• You can choose to retire once your term is finished.

Thank you for reading, and good luck in this session and beyond.

Vet Affairs, Foreign Rel., and Armed Services

Chair: Ed_San

Ranking Member: MDK6778

Other Member: Toby_Zeiger

Commerce, Finance, and Labor

Chair: SgtNicholasAngel

Ranking Member: Trelivewire

Other Member: AHF

Health, Science, and the Environment

Chair: Sviridovt

Ranking Member: PM_ME_YOUR_PANZER

Other Member: Saku

Judiciary, Local Government, and Oversight

Chair: MoralLesson

Ranking Member: Lukeran

Other Member: Bubbciss

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModelUSGov/comments/3p0c9n/cabinet_nomination_hearings/

I'll put each person in the comments.

Just comment Yea, Nay, or Abstain to each person.

Should the Defendant, Donald Trump, be forever disqualified from holding and enjoying any Office of Honor, Trust, or Profit Under the United States?

Candidates for Majority Leader:

/u/JellyCow99 (AC)

/u/PrelateZeratul (DX)

Candidates for President Pro Tempore:

/u/DDYT (GL)

/u/GuiltyAir (GL)

Please vote in this format:

Majority Leader:

PPT:

URGENT

• The runner up in the Majority Leader race becomes the Minority Leader. The PPT runner up gets ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Please vote using their username. As a courtesy, please do not include the /u/.

• The Majority and Minority Leader will need to work together on establishing new committees as soon as possible - no clerking in the Senate will proceed until this is done and mom mailed.

• /u/Reagan0 has been nominated to of Associate Justice to fill the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court by President /u/Gunnz011.

/u/CuriositySMBC has been nominated as to the Supreme Court of the United States by President /u/GuiltyAir

Per Senate Rule 18.2 the nominee meets the requirements to face a floor vote. This vote will last 48 hours.

Senate Majority Leader Candidates:

-/u/mika3740 (Democrat)

-/u/kingthero (Bull Moose Party)

Senate President Pro Tempore Candidates:

-/u/piratecody (Democrat)

-/u/PrelateZeratul (Republican)

Please vote for one candidate in each category. Your vote should look like this:

Majority Leader: candidate

PPT: candidate

This vote will last for 48 hours.

Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2018

SECTION. 1. TITLE

(a) This Bill shall be known as the Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2018

SECTION. 2. ABOLITION

(a) The sentence of death may no longer be issued by any federal court for any federal crime.

(b) Those offenses which, immediately prior to the passage of this Act, allowed for the sentence of death may now be punished by life in prison without the opportunity for parole, if they are not already punishable by such a sentence.

(c) Those individuals currently sentenced to death for a federal crime hereby have their sentence reduced to life imprisonment without the opportunity for parole.

SECTION. 3. MILITARY LIMITATION

(a) Except as otherwise provide for in this Act, no crime committed under the Uniform Code of Military Justice may be punished with the penalty of death.

(b) The exception to Section 3(a) of this Act is that the sentence of death may be issued to a soldier or other member of the military who commits mutiny while in active service to one or more of the branches of the Armed Forces of the United States during war time or when otherwise stationed in an area of imminent and ever-present danger, and when no other means can adequately protect the non-mutinous soldiers and other members of the military in their unit.

(c) The Department of Defense, within 120 days of the passage of this Act, shall more clearly define the instances in which Section 3(b) of this Act may be applicable.

SECTION. 4. STATE AND FOREIGN DEATH PENALTIES

(a) This Congress declares its support for abolishing the penalty of death for state crimes.

(b) This Congress encourages every governor or other state executive officer or officials, in whose power it rests to commute state sentences, to commute every sentence of death to a sentence of life in prison.

(c) This Congress encourages every nation that has not already done so to abolish its death penalty.

SECTION. 5. ENACTMENT

(a) If a provision of this legislation is or becomes illegal, invalid, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that shall not affect, the validity and enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other provision in this legislation; or the validity and enforceability in that jurisdiction of that or any other provision in this legislation.

(b) This act shall be enacted 90 days after enactment into law.

Written and Sponsored by /u/justdefi (R). Co-Sponsored by /u/PineappleCrusher_ (R) /u/SKra00 (R) /u/Viktard (R) /u/TeamEhmling (R)

Clerking will proceed as usual on odd-numbered days, starting with December 7th.

The Senate will be closed on the 25th of December for Christmas, the 27th of December for Kwanzaa, and the 31st of December and the 1st of January for the New Year.

My best,

Idris.

Hearing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModelUSGov/comments/78caag/hearings_secretary_of_the_treasury_and_chair_of/

Nominees are:

• Sec. of the Treasury /u/Autarch_Severian

• Chair of the Federal Reserve /u/deepfriedhookers

For each cabinet nominee, I will post a top-level comment. Vote by replying to that comment with yea/nay/abstain.

Bill: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModelUSGov/comments/781v15/sres_25_senate_rules/

Vote.

The Minority Leader and I have selected committees.

The Committee on Commerce, Finance, and Labor

Chair /u/realnyebevan (Soc.)

Ranking member /u/Kerbogha (Lib.)

/u/GuiltyAir (Soc.)

The Committee on Health, Science, and the Environment

Chair /u/PhlebotinumEddie (Soc.)

Ranking member /u/Nonprehension (Dem.)

Member /u/RazorReviews (Soc.)

The Committee on Foreign Affairs

Chair /u/Toasty_Man115 (Soc.)

Ranking member /u/Venom_Big_Boss (Lib.)

Member /u/j4xh4x123 (Libt.)

The Committee on the Judiciary, Local Government, and Oversight

Chair /u/Mabblies (Soc.)

Ranking member /u/Shanix (Lib.)

Member /u/thegreatestbandini (Soc.)

The nominee is /u/Toasty_Man115.

Hearing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModelUSGov/comments/73psds/confirmation_hearing_federal_reserve_chairman/

Vote on the nominee.

Amendment is in bold. Vote on the amendment.

Establishment of Halloween as a Federal Holiday Act

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short Title

This act may be cited as the “Halloween Federal Holiday Act”

SECTION 2. Designation of Halloween as a Federal Holiday

The 31st of October shall be designated as a federal holiday and all respective federal workers and students in public schools and universities will be given the day off to celebrate

SECTION 3.

All federal employees are encouraged to wear festive attire on the nearest previous workday to the 31st of October.

SECTION 4. Enactment

This bill shall take effect immediately upon being signed into law