Bill: Rejected Ambassador Status Clarification Act

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Amend the Executive Standards Act​

The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Ambassador Status Clarification Act'.

(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

(3) This Act has been authored by ToadKing.

(4) This Act has been sponsored by Speaker Talion77.

(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative YourLocalDiabeto.

2 - Reasons

(1) To clarify that ambassadors are executive officers subject to the separation of powers doctrine.

(2) To prevent conflicts of interest and ensure that ambassadors cannot simultaneously hold positions in other branches of government.

(3) To amend the Executive Standards Act to align ambassador restrictions with existing executive officer standards.

3 - Amendment

(1) The Executive Standards Act shall be amended as follows:

"4 - Ambassadors

(1) The President may appoint an ambassador to recognised countries and diplomatic organisations.

(2) Ambassadors work within the Department of State.

(3) Ambassador appointments must be approved by the Senate.

(4) Ambassadors may be subject to impeachment and removal from office by Congress.

(5) The President is limited on the number of principal officers they can nominate, the limitations are as follows:

(a) There may be one ambassador per recognized foreign nation and international organization.

(6) No person shall hold the position of Ambassador simultaneously with the positions: Secretary, Representative, Senator, Magistrate, Judge, Justice, or Chief Justice."
 
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Aye, while I'm not completely sold on the necessity of this change, it brings it in line with other positions that require approval from the Senate.
 
Nay.

In my head, ambassadors are closer to Deputy Secretaries with a specific portfolio under the DoS than Secretaries themselves. They do exist in an odd place, since they require Senate confirmation, but they work within the DoS—it’s not quite the sort of top level positions that cabinet officials hold.

I would also be OK, generally, if a President were to want to appoint a Secretary of State/Commerce/Public Affairs to also be the ambassador to Alexandria—there are certain synergies that might come from these roles, and I don’t think that we need to restrict this.
 
Abstain for now, I have proposed an amendment that makes this bill more palatable
 
Abstain.

I do like this change as it removes the Conflict of Interest of appointing yourself if you were a Senator. However, I will support Deputy President of the Senate Anthony_Org's amendment which fixes the issue with Acting Secretaries.
 
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Before HR.11.34 / S-11/34:
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With the power vested in me as Vice President of the Commonwealth of Redmont, I vote against this bill.
 
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With the power vested in me as Vice President of the Commonwealth of Redmont, I vote against this bill.
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By the power vested in me as President of the Senate, and seeing the tie-break in the negative, I declare that this bill has failed.
 
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