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> What's SPAR19 and why are so many interested? Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan, which China is opposed to.
by input_sh 4y ago
> What's SPAR19 and why are so many interested?
Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan, which China is opposed to.
- 2143 4y ago
- rjh29 4y ago
- revlolz 4y agoHe's no longer in the running.
- selimthegrim 4y agoOne might say he was in the offing for a while towards the end. No need, I’ll get the door myself.
- jacquesm 4y agoPence got really lucky that day, as did the United States. That could have gone entirely different if not for a few people keeping a clear head.
- Spoom 4y agoOne of which, to his credit, appears to have been Pence himself.
- jacquesm 4y agoYes, absolutely. I'm not a fan, to put it mildly, but on that day he did the United States a great service.
- alistairSH 4y agoSort of... I didn't get the impression he stayed at the Capitol because he thought it was the right thing for the country, but instead because he felt staying was the better option for his own power and legacy. I mean, I'll take it, but I'd prefer our leaders were slightly more principled than that.
- jacquesm 4y agoMuch better than the alternative.
- BudaDude 4y agoYou mean Kamala Harris
- bakul 4y agoafter VP Kamala Harris. Pence has been dispensed.
- DangerousPie 4y agoDispenced.
- vorpalhex 4y agoThe House is one of two chambers that make up Congress. The House is a representational chamber by population, whereas it's counterpart the Senate is fixed at 2 members per state. The House is often where bills originate, and the Senate is the latter half of the process.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> The House is often where bills originate, As is the Senate. (Bills for raising revenue must originate in the House, but otherwise they can and do go in any order.)
- falcor84 4y ago>The House is often where bills originate, and the Senate is the latter half of the process. Yup, seems like the Senate is where bills perish.
- tomschlick 4y agoThe Senate was designed from the beginning to be an obstacle. If you can't get both a majority of people, and a majority of states to agree then it should stay a law at the state level instead of the federal.
- humanistbot 4y ago
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoI don't know what Parliament is, but as the name suggests it must have something to do with shelf stable dairy products.
- 2143 4y ago> I'm choosing to interpret this as a sarcastic jab at HN's US-centric tendencies It wasn't a sarcastic jab. > willful ignorance Do you expect everybody in the world to know how the US government works? > It would take two seconds to look this up. I looked it up immediately after looking up Nancy Pelosi on Google. This is what I got (Wikipedia): "The United States House of Representatives, usually referred to as the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber." Right. Now I have to look up "US congress", "US senate", "US upper and lower chamber"... Didn't want to bother with it. So I typed in a simple explanation. This is the honest truth. Believe it if you want to. (I actually got a better understanding of what US House of Representatives is by reading other comments here.)
- tialaramex 4y ago
- woweoe 4y agoIn France you have a strong president that combines the role of a monarch and prime minister, but the role of "constitutional gatekeeper" is shared by the Constitutional Council, Supreme Court and Administrative Court. The latter three are actually entities that use their power. The idea of having two houses of parliament is common in most large countries, and it is also common for those houses to be segregated from the executive (EU etc...). The US is a political and cultural mess, but a lot of those issues aren't inherently due to the political system involved.
- krallja 4y agoDon’t forget that the President and Senate are both elected on the basis of land, rather than population. And the presidential allotment is winner-takes-all for most of those land areas. Definitely doesn’t disenfranchise large population centers, it’s fine.
- yieldcrv 4y agoThe patches to the constitution aren't as deeply thought out as the original one. The Senate wasn't even an elected institution until 100 years ago, whether that is better or worse than an appointed system is mostly a false dilemma as there are more than two options. Pointing out that our constitution isn't really geared for the current process is a first step of getting more inspiration on how it could function. When you patch one aspect it throws the other aspects out of whack.
- pookha 4y ago"Basis of land"? LOL. Are you referring to the 50 individual state governments that make up the United States of America? Most Europeans don't know this, but the first government in the world to ban slavery was the U.S (Vermont). The US isn't one homogeneous zone. There are 50 individual governments that write their own legislation, have their own taxation systems and have military's (state guards). California is free to create their abortion access legislation as is Texas. Many states in the US legalized Weed despite the fact that the federal government has some bizarre policy in place (which isn't constitutional).
- cronix 4y agoMore politically important, The Speaker is 3rd in line to become president if something happens to the president and vice president.
- tomohawk 4y agoNancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives. She is 2 heartbeats away from being President (she would become president if both the President and Vice President became incapacitated). The House is similar to the UK Parliament. She is elected to her position by the members of the House. Since Democracts control the House this term, they elected Nancy Pelosi as Speaker for this term. The President has primary responsibility for foreign affairs. The Speaker taking this action could be interpretted as stepping on the toes of the President, or could have tacit approval of the President as a kind of stalking horse.
- politelemon 4y agoThanks for this explanation, the other comments were baffling me, so it was probably self evident to many who this Nancy fella was.
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- crossroadsguy 4y agoWell, this person is not a fella (assuming fella is still used for a male, unlike dude, and apparently guy as well).
- fomine3 4y agothanks for explanation, " She is 2 heartbeats away from being President" looks important but haven't seen.