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Senator Nayar, you have the floor.\n\nSENATOR RASHMI NAYAR (C-Noble-Ellis Sys): Thank you, Speaker. I shall yield the remaining allotment of my time, but, in summation, I know critics of this motion have said that reopening the Educational Equivalency Imperial Funding system in order to stop \u201canomalies of abuse\u201d is unnecessary, that exploitation can be discovered by a more thorough investigative process. Now I could continue to cite how the education budget is already stretched too thin to justify the amount of investigative oversight proposed to catch these \u2018anomalies,\u2019 I could even go over prospective solutions and exactly what line-item they would apply to, but I just want to say that the EEIF was established to help educate our children. Let\u2019s do everything in our power to make sure that these grants are going to the right place, to help the schools that truly need it. Thank you.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Thank you, Senator Nayar. We will schedule discussion and voting of your motion in eight days. I would now like to open the floor. Should anyone have new legislation, please rise and be heard.\n\n< pause >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): The Speaker recognizes the honorable Senator from Angeli.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Thank you, Speaker. Ladies and gentlemen. To continue on a theme my illustrious predecessor referenced, our Empire is on uncertain ground. Our future is tenuous as economic concerns govern every step that we take. Life is about hard choices. People use phrases like \u201cin a perfect world \u2026\u201d or \u201cit will all work out in the end.\u201d Beautiful ideals to strive for, sure \u2026 but it\u2019s not a perfect world and things don\u2019t work out in the end, so we have to make choices, we have to sacrifice. We have to ask the hard questions and accept real consequences. Our government has been acting like we are living in this perfect world. That the financial responsibilities will somehow miraculously sort themselves out if we just keep on the path we\u2019ve been travelling. But it won\u2019t. Esteemed Senators, we are headed for a total collapse of our infrastructure if we do not correct our course now. Not tomorrow. Not next month. Now. Attempts have been made, sure. Article 416 and the Von Bello Act tried to alleviate the strain, but, in the end, they weren\u2019t enough, but there\u2019s one branch that hasn\u2019t been included in this intense scrutiny of spending. The UEE military has been operating with budgetary impunity while the rest of the Empire has been bleeding.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Mr Speaker \u2026\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): You have not been recognized, Senator.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): We don\u2019t have to listen to this, do we?\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Military R&D departments have actually been charting an increase in funding while public works on Ferron have almost gone back a hundred years. We are past due for the military to shoulder the weight of these cutbacks. The High Command has justified this continued expenditure because there are threats out there. But this isn\u2019t a perfect world. There will always be threats to the Empire. So now, we\u2019re back to the question of choice, of sacrifice. I have drafted a bill that will force High Command to ask these questions, the questions that the rest of us have been forced to grapple with for years. If approved, they will need to cut ten percent of their overall budget \u2014\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Ten percent?!\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Ten percent of their overall budget to help bring their spending back in line.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Where is that ten percent going to come from, Senator? I assume it won\u2019t be taken out of the patrols guarding your planet, so presumably my system will be on the chopping block.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): It will come out of wherever it isn\u2019t most needed. I take no joy in this proposal, Senator. I am simply fulfilling my promise taken on this very floor over a year ago to take a pragmatic and unflinching look at how we can possibly expect to maintain the progress of our Empire, and this is the only solution that a rational and honest person would come to.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Senator Polo, a question.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Of course, Speaker.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): You said that High Command will be forced to make these cuts.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): That is correct, Speaker.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): And if they can\u2019t?\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Then, by provision, we will set up a select subcommittee of economic strategists, military advisors and Senators to make the cuts for them.\n\n< indistinct yelling >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Order! Sit down or I will be forced to \u2014\n\n< indistinct yelling >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): This session is in recess until such a time when the Senate can manage to relocate their decorum.\n\n< gavel bang >\n\nTRANSCRIPT BREAK","de_DE":"UEE KONGRESS (396)\n2945-02-24 SATZ\n\nSession AutoScript\nGepr\u00fcft und zugelassen - Archivist Yates (#57573BDF)\n\n2945-02-24_14:07 - Sitzung beginnt\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Meine Damen und Herren des Senats, wenn Sie sich bitte setzen, werden wir fortfahren.\n\n< Pause > Pause >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Wir sind beschlussf\u00e4hig und k\u00f6nnen uns wieder versammeln. Senator Nayar, Sie haben das Wort.\n\nSENATOR RASHMI NAYAR (C-Noble-Ellis Sys): Danke, Sprecher. Ich werde die verbleibende Zeit einbringen, aber zusammenfassend wei\u00df ich, dass Kritiker dieses Antrags gesagt haben, dass die Wiederer\u00f6ffnung des Imperialen Finanzierungssystems f\u00fcr Bildungs\u00e4quivalenz, um \"Missbrauchsanomalien\" zu stoppen, unn\u00f6tig ist, dass Ausbeutung durch ein gr\u00fcndlicheres Ermittlungsverfahren entdeckt werden kann. Jetzt k\u00f6nnte ich weiter zitieren, dass das Bildungsbudget bereits zu d\u00fcnn besetzt ist, um die H\u00f6he der Untersuchungsaufsicht zu rechtfertigen, die vorgeschlagen wurde, um diese \"Anomalien\" zu fangen, ich k\u00f6nnte sogar \u00fcber prospektive L\u00f6sungen und genau den Punkt gehen, auf den sie sich beziehen w\u00fcrden, aber ich m\u00f6chte nur sagen, dass der EEIF gegr\u00fcndet wurde, um bei der Bildung unserer Kinder zu helfen. Lasst uns alles in unserer Macht Stehende tun, um sicherzustellen, dass diese Zusch\u00fcsse an den richtigen Ort kommen, um den Schulen zu helfen, die sie wirklich brauchen. Ich danke dir.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Danke, Senator Nayar. Wir werden die Diskussion und Abstimmung \u00fcber Ihren Antrag in acht Tagen planen. Ich m\u00f6chte nun den Boden \u00f6ffnen. Sollte jemand neue Gesetze haben, erheben Sie sich bitte und lassen Sie sich anh\u00f6ren.\n\n< Pause > Pause >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Der Sprecher w\u00fcrdigt den ehrenwerten Senator von Angeli.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Danke, Sprecher. Meine Damen und Herren. Um mit einem Thema fortzufahren, auf das mein ber\u00fchmter Vorg\u00e4nger Bezug nahm, befindet sich unser Imperium auf ungewissem Boden. Unsere Zukunft ist schwach, denn wirtschaftliche Bedenken bestimmen jeden Schritt, den wir unternehmen. Im Leben geht es um schwierige Entscheidungen. Die Leute benutzen S\u00e4tze wie \"in einer perfekten Welt...\" oder \"es wird alles am Ende funktionieren\". Sch\u00f6ne Ideale, nach denen man streben muss, sicher.... aber es ist keine perfekte Welt und die Dinge funktionieren am Ende nicht, also m\u00fcssen wir Entscheidungen treffen, wir m\u00fcssen Opfer bringen. Wir m\u00fcssen die schwierigen Fragen stellen und echte Konsequenzen akzeptieren. Unsere Regierung hat so getan, als w\u00fcrden wir in dieser perfekten Welt leben. Dass sich die finanziellen Verantwortlichkeiten irgendwie auf wundersame Weise regeln, wenn wir einfach auf dem Weg bleiben, den wir gegangen sind. Aber das wird es nicht. Gesch\u00e4tzte Senatoren, wir werden f\u00fcr einen kompletten Einsturz unserer Infrastruktur vorangegangen, wenn wir nicht unseren Kurs jetzt beheben. Nicht morgen. Nicht n\u00e4chsten Monat. Jetzt. Es wurden Versuche unternommen, sicher. Artikel 416 und das Von Bello-Gesetz versuchten, die Belastung zu verringern, aber am Ende waren sie nicht genug, aber es gibt einen Zweig, der nicht in diese intensive \u00dcberpr\u00fcfung der Ausgaben einbezogen wurde. Das UEE-Milit\u00e4r operiert mit Haushaltsstraflosigkeit, w\u00e4hrend der Rest des Imperiums blutet.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Herr Pr\u00e4sident....\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Sie wurden nicht anerkannt, Senator.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Wir m\u00fcssen uns das nicht anh\u00f6ren, oder?\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Die milit\u00e4rischen F&E-Abteilungen haben tats\u00e4chlich eine Erh\u00f6hung der Mittel festgestellt, w\u00e4hrend die \u00f6ffentlichen Arbeiten an Ferron fast hundert Jahre zur\u00fcckliegen. Wir sind \u00fcberf\u00e4llig, dass das Milit\u00e4r das Gewicht dieser K\u00fcrzungen tragen muss. Das Oberkommando hat diese fortgesetzten Ausgaben gerechtfertigt, weil es Bedrohungen gibt. Aber das ist keine perfekte Welt. Es wird immer Bedrohungen f\u00fcr das Imperium geben. Jetzt kommen wir also wieder zur Frage der Wahl, des Opfers. Ich habe einen Entwurf gemacht, der das Oberkommando zwingen wird, diese Fragen zu stellen, die Fragen, mit denen wir anderen seit Jahren zu k\u00e4mpfen haben. Wenn sie genehmigt werden, m\u00fcssen sie zehn Prozent ihres Gesamtbudgets k\u00fcrzen -\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Zehn Prozent?!\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Zehn Prozent ihres Gesamtbudgets, um ihre Ausgaben wieder in Einklang zu bringen.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Woher sollen die zehn Prozent kommen, Senator? Ich nehme an, dass es nicht von den Patrouillen, die deinen Planeten bewachen, entfernt wird, also wird sich vermutlich mein System auf dem Hackblock befinden.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Es wird dort herauskommen, wo es nicht am meisten gebraucht wird. Ich freue mich nicht \u00fcber diesen Vorschlag, Senator. Ich erf\u00fclle einfach mein Versprechen, das ich vor mehr als einem Jahr in diesem Saal gegeben habe, n\u00e4mlich einen pragmatischen und unnachgiebigen Blick darauf zu werfen, wie wir den Fortschritt unseres Reiches erwarten k\u00f6nnen, und das ist die einzige L\u00f6sung, zu der ein vern\u00fcnftiger und ehrlicher Mensch kommen w\u00fcrde.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Senator Polo, eine Frage.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Nat\u00fcrlich, Sprecher.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Sie haben gesagt, dass das Oberkommando gezwungen sein wird, diese K\u00fcrzungen vorzunehmen.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Das ist richtig, Speaker.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Und wenn sie es nicht k\u00f6nnen?\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Dann werden wir durch Vorkehrungen einen ausgew\u00e4hlten Unterausschuss von Wirtschaftsstrategen, Milit\u00e4rberatern und Senatoren einrichten, um die K\u00fcrzungen f\u00fcr sie vorzunehmen.\n\nundeutliches Schreien >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Ruhe! Setz dich hin oder ich werde gezwungen sein, -\n\nundeutliches Schreien >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Diese Sitzung ist in der Pause, bis zu einer solchen Zeit, in der der Senat es schaffen kann, ihren Anstand zu verlegen.\n\nHammerknall >\n\nTRANSKRIPTUMBRUCH","zh_CN":"UEE CONGRESS (396)\n2945-02-24 SET\n\nSession AutoScript\nProofed and Admitted \u2013Archivist Yates (#57573BDF)\n\n2945-02-24_14:07 \u2013 Session Begins\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, if you will please take your seats, we will continue.\n\n< pause >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): We have a quorum and may reconvene. Senator Nayar, you have the floor.\n\nSENATOR RASHMI NAYAR (C-Noble-Ellis Sys): Thank you, Speaker. I shall yield the remaining allotment of my time, but, in summation, I know critics of this motion have said that reopening the Educational Equivalency Imperial Funding system in order to stop \u201canomalies of abuse\u201d is unnecessary, that exploitation can be discovered by a more thorough investigative process. Now I could continue to cite how the education budget is already stretched too thin to justify the amount of investigative oversight proposed to catch these \u2018anomalies,\u2019 I could even go over prospective solutions and exactly what line-item they would apply to, but I just want to say that the EEIF was established to help educate our children. Let\u2019s do everything in our power to make sure that these grants are going to the right place, to help the schools that truly need it. Thank you.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Thank you, Senator Nayar. We will schedule discussion and voting of your motion in eight days. I would now like to open the floor. Should anyone have new legislation, please rise and be heard.\n\n< pause >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): The Speaker recognizes the honorable Senator from Angeli.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Thank you, Speaker. Ladies and gentlemen. To continue on a theme my illustrious predecessor referenced, our Empire is on uncertain ground. Our future is tenuous as economic concerns govern every step that we take. Life is about hard choices. People use phrases like \u201cin a perfect world \u2026\u201d or \u201cit will all work out in the end.\u201d Beautiful ideals to strive for, sure \u2026 but it\u2019s not a perfect world and things don\u2019t work out in the end, so we have to make choices, we have to sacrifice. We have to ask the hard questions and accept real consequences. Our government has been acting like we are living in this perfect world. That the financial responsibilities will somehow miraculously sort themselves out if we just keep on the path we\u2019ve been travelling. But it won\u2019t. Esteemed Senators, we are headed for a total collapse of our infrastructure if we do not correct our course now. Not tomorrow. Not next month. Now. Attempts have been made, sure. Article 416 and the Von Bello Act tried to alleviate the strain, but, in the end, they weren\u2019t enough, but there\u2019s one branch that hasn\u2019t been included in this intense scrutiny of spending. The UEE military has been operating with budgetary impunity while the rest of the Empire has been bleeding.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Mr Speaker \u2026\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): You have not been recognized, Senator.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): We don\u2019t have to listen to this, do we?\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Military R&D departments have actually been charting an increase in funding while public works on Ferron have almost gone back a hundred years. We are past due for the military to shoulder the weight of these cutbacks. The High Command has justified this continued expenditure because there are threats out there. But this isn\u2019t a perfect world. There will always be threats to the Empire. So now, we\u2019re back to the question of choice, of sacrifice. I have drafted a bill that will force High Command to ask these questions, the questions that the rest of us have been forced to grapple with for years. If approved, they will need to cut ten percent of their overall budget \u2014\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Ten percent?!\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Ten percent of their overall budget to help bring their spending back in line.\n\nSENATOR TARYN GLASI (C-Vosca-Elysium Sys): Where is that ten percent going to come from, Senator? I assume it won\u2019t be taken out of the patrols guarding your planet, so presumably my system will be on the chopping block.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): It will come out of wherever it isn\u2019t most needed. I take no joy in this proposal, Senator. I am simply fulfilling my promise taken on this very floor over a year ago to take a pragmatic and unflinching look at how we can possibly expect to maintain the progress of our Empire, and this is the only solution that a rational and honest person would come to.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Senator Polo, a question.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Of course, Speaker.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): You said that High Command will be forced to make these cuts.\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): That is correct, Speaker.\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): And if they can\u2019t?\n\nSENATOR KYLE POLO (U-Angeli-Croshaw Sys): Then, by provision, we will set up a select subcommittee of economic strategists, military advisors and Senators to make the cuts for them.\n\n< indistinct yelling >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): Order! Sit down or I will be forced to \u2014\n\n< indistinct yelling >\n\nSPEAKER MARSHALL MADRIGAL (U-Borea-Magnus Sys): This session is in recess until such a time when the Senate can manage to relocate their decorum.\n\n< gavel bang >\n\nTRANSCRIPT BREAK"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":107,"created_at":"2015-02-25T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-07 22:45:23","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":14528,"next_id":14530}}