All Congress members sworn into office; committees are established
WASHINGTON DC, USA - Shortly following the inauguration of President of the United States PatrickRusso, Speaker of the House JamesClements and the rest of the representatives and senators in the United States Congress were also formally sworn into office in the presence of Chief Justice VincentMiele.
Unexpectedly, Representative iNightStalker resigned from his position within 24 hours of taking it, citing "family issues" as the cause for his departure. The parties charged with hosting congressional elections will have to hold one for his vacant seat.
Aside from that incident, Congress is officially "in action" again. The seat holders are as follows:
UNITED STATES SENATE
Chaddy2468
DrZeliux
OfficerAlex
Czarbucks
zivnuska12
TheLlamaOfGB
AlexanderZervos
CallowayGoldman
MrCharlesWordsworth
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
BenjaminMichaelAsher
iBrassie
Tormentium
WINT3RFR0ST
LukeSolace
[Empty seat]
The first piece of legislation to pass the House of Representatives, was the United States Congress Standing Committee Act, presented by Speaker JamesClements. The legislation states that four (but in actuality, five committees - it looks as if Clements made a typo) committees (the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Armed Forces) shall be run by Congress, each with five members in them - comprised of Congressmen from the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Each committee will consist of two senators and two representatives. But an interesting factor, is that the bill states that the Chairman of every single committee would be Speaker of the House JamesClements. In real life, the Speaker of the House only selects the chairperson of each committee, but evidently that's not the course that Clements wants to go through.
There are allegations that the premier legislation the Russo Administration wishes to pass, entitled "PEMRAA" (Preliminary Enrichment Military Reformation and Addition Act of 2015) which would radically reform the United States Military, may be stalled by Speaker Clements in the House due to his long-term and very public animosity to President Russo. It is unsure whether Clements wants to simply kill the bill in the committees, or if he will consider himself above these low standards and help the Russo Administration pass the legislation with hopes of improving the United States.
POLITICO Capitol Hill (updated 10:12 AM EDT, 2015/1/2)
