Controversial Dead Locked Legislature!

Day 496, 16:34 Published in USA USA by Aren Perry
http://www.erepublik.com/en/USA/law/4622

Background of the Proposal

In the congressional caucus, for a long time, congress has been debating how to more efficiently fund and buy Q5 hospitals. The more liberal wanted a subsidized government owned company, while the conservatives stood up for personal free market businesses.

To settle this debate, a compromise can be found within government contracts that are given to private companies. The prime target for this is the reputable and well known Funke's Goodtime Family Q4 hospital company. Kyle321n, owner of Funke's and Nelco Industries, offered to sell us his Q4 hospital and take the money and put it towards making the company a Q5 Hospital company and selling Q5 hospitals solely by contract to the US government. Jewitt wrote up the initial contract, which I, as chair of infrastructure, made minor changes and reviews to.

This contract was put up for congressional approval by quorum, (20 votes total), in the voting records. After more than 2 days, it finally garnered 20 votes, 16 for 4 against. As such, since contract should be signed before donations are made to avoid the possibility of fraud that Justinious so painfully (and disrespectfully) pointed out. Thus, after garnering a strong approval, I and Kyle signed the appropriate documents that can be found in the contract section of the forum in e-republik.

Then, I provided the proposal for the 18k that is part of the payment for a Q4 hospital/Q5 upgrade.

Surprisingly, as of now (http://www.erepublik.com/en/USA/law/4622) the vote is 19 for 19 against! For having garnered 16 for and 4 against originally after a period of over 2 days, those that oppose the agreement have shown up late and put this in quite an interesting position.

Save the impeachments, I have not seen such a close congressional race in terms of votes. Second, the contract is vague on what happens if the contract beginning terms are broken by the US.

Part of the confusion is caused by the recent committal to contracts without much precedence on how to do it which is currently working itself out. One Eye correctly stated (in my opinion) that we are going too far and adding too much red tape to our government processes as opposed to the earlier laxity in accountability.