This week the US Senate and President debated a potential reform to the Senate's rules of order: elimination of the "filibuster". Unlike a conventional filibuster, in which a member speaks continuously and blocks all action by the assembly, since the 1970s Senate rules have allowed a ["silent filibuster"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_States_Senate#The_two-track_system,60-vote_rule_and_rise_of_the_routine_filibuster(1970_onward)) by which members can indefinitely block a specific action without holding the floor while the rest of the Senate's business continues unimpeded. Under current rules a vote of 60 out of the 100 Senators is required to end "debate" and proceed to the final vote, so this unusual "cloture" requirement behaves similarly to a standard supermajority requirement in other systems. However, certain categories of motions, such as budget reconciliation, executive and judicial nominee confirmations, and emergency powers, are effectively exempted from this process in the US Senate and require only a simple majority of 51 votes to pass.
What are the effects of supermajority requirements where they are used in other parliamentary bodies? Do they also have categories of items that require a simple majority instead? Are there notable motions in the history of the US Senate that narrowly failed because of the supermajority requirement, or that narrowly passed with a simple majority and would have failed if the current system had been in use at the time?
I believe with this law would verify the credentials of our representatives instead of the news where we found out some have fake or forge credentials as this shows greater transparency to the public on who is qualified as a leader.
[M: see Dice rolls for UP Legislative assembly Election 2022]
Midway between the general elections, Indian public gets to cast its vote for election for 5 states assemblies, as the presidential election is about to happen soon after the result BJP must secure enough MLAs to put forward a President of its choice.
Goa
The small western state, which is always in a party mood, have been ruled by BJP for last 20 years and anti incumbency is surely going to be a huge impact. While the state itself is not significant, these results will have an spill over effect to the very important state of Maharashtra. These election are also significant for Aam Aadmi Party which have recently started to want to expand its influence outside UT of Delhi. If the recent village level election are to go by, where BJP won 34 of the 50 seats, it will be a cakewalk for NDA to secure majority.
The results are a follow
| Party | Seats Won in 2017 | Seats Won in 2022 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | 27 | 23 | -4 |
| Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party | 1 | 0 | -1 |
| NDA | 28 | 23 | -5 |
| INC | 5 | 4 | -1 |
| NCP | 1 | 0 | -1 |
| Goa Forward Party | 3 | 4 | +1 |
| UPA | 9 | 8 | -1 |
| Aam Aadmi Party | 0 | 2 | +2 |
| Others and Independents | 3 | 7 | +4 |
BJP won 23 of the 40 and Pramod Sawant was sworn in as the CM again. AAP won 2 urban seats while INC had its tally decreased by 1. The trend of voters choosing a 3rd party over INC continues in Goa, sending a message to central leadership on INC to wake up.
Manipur
The cosy state in north east is normally not the most hot topic of debate in India since the death of insurgency, now people only remember that this place exist once every 4 years during Olympics (the state have an excellent women sports culture and recently Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal in weightlifting) and once every 5 years at the time of election. In 2017 the state fell into hands of NDA for the first time and the CM N. Biren Singh have not disappointed his people giving them, among other things, their first train in 70 years of independence [1]. NDA is the state also has National People's Party, the NCP split-off that have now became a National Party of its own right.
The results are as follow
| Party | Seats Won in 2017 | Seats Won in 2022 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | 21 | 28 | +7 |
| National People's Party | 4 | 4 | - |
| Naga People's Front | 4 | 3 | -1 |
| Lok Janshakti Party | 1 | 1 | - |
| NDA | 31 | 36 | +4 |
| INC | 28 | 20 | -10 |
| NCP | 0 | 1 |
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Came across this on the wikipedia page > The militancy in Kashmir had increased after the exodus. The militants had targeted the properties of Kashmiri Pandits after their exodus.[81][82] In 2009 Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to recognise 14 September 2007, as Martyrs Day to acknowledge ethnic cleansing and campaigns of terror inflicted on non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir by militant seeking to establish an Islamic state.
The resolution is 37 lines long.
An archived copy of the resolution
Quoting from the resolution:
> Whereas the nation of India contains 28 states, the northernmost one of which is the state of Jammu and Kashmir; and > Whereas the non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir constitute more than 20 percent of the population of that state; and > Whereas the non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir have been subjected to ethnic persecution and violence over the past 17 years, due to efforts to establish Jammu and Kashmir as an Islamic state governed by extremist principles, religious persecution and political subversion; and >Whereas this religious persecution and campaign of terror has forced nearly a million nonMuslim residents of Jammu and Kashmir to flee their homes
