Blackstone Code

There are all kinds of variables here every minute and every second.

Capital, politics, if there are no honest people, there will be no honest people!

Everyone will say "hello" to you on the surface, but you never know what they are thinking on the inside!

Maybe they mean it.

Maybe they mean it!

After some extremely boring content was quickly ended, under the auspices of the Speaker, the entire Congress began to nominate a list of twenty-four people.

Senator Landon was given a form for nomination that any member of Congress could fill out.

There are eighteen nominations for senators and six nominations for representatives. You can fill them all in or leave some blank.

He held the pen and looked at the people around him. Some people sensed his gaze and smiled and nodded at him.

Most of them are filling out this form with their heads down.

His heartbeat was a little strong, and he hesitated for a moment before filling in his name and the members of his small faction.

His form was soon collected.

During the counting process, there would be a break of about ten minutes. He quickly left his seat, walked to the small group members, and whispered to them.

Encouragement, motivation, and a touch of authoritative warning!

"We will succeed, no one can stop us!"

After encouraging the members of the small group, he returned to his seat.

A few minutes later, a total of more than seventy members of Congress were nominated to become members of the Standing Committee with overall responsibility for the reconstruction of Marillo.

In the federation, a member of Congress can sit on multiple committees, but no one can take on too much work or conflicting tasks.

For example, members of the Industrial Promotion Committee will not consider competing for the positions of committee members related to the environment because their work content conflicts.

If one person is not handled well, both parties will not be able to do their job well, and they will also attract some negative comments to themselves.

At the same time, people will not find too many jobs for themselves. The status of a committee member is not always unchanged. Once Congress believes that a member can no longer handle the work at hand well, it will initiate a vote to cancel the status of the committee member. Select again.

The more important the committee members are, the more they focus on the work of a certain committee, not more.

Among the candidates currently provided, a few have already served as committee members, while others have not.

Senator Langdon himself is a member of the environment-related committee. When he was a member of the House of Representatives, he traveled around the country every day on the issue of chemical emissions!

If it weren't for Lynch's support behind him, he would have become a used outcast long ago and been thrown out!

After all, the question of managing industrial emissions is a difficult decision in itself.

If he favors the common people, then there is no doubt that he will offend the capitalist class, because when he sides with the common people, his enemies are the big factories and big capitalists.

But if he sides with the capitalists, he will lose his base among the people, and people will be dissatisfied with the ineffectiveness of his work.

This is a very interesting phenomenon in the Federation. The upper class of society firmly controls everything that is closely related to people's lives. At the same time, the way they obtain and maintain power relies on the people to a certain extent.

This leads them to cater to the public, at least on the surface.

The best person in this regard is the federal president.

They can always find topics that are very in line with people's interests and appeals, and then jump into them to quickly gain people's support, thus gaining huge support rates.

Congressman Langdon also chooses to win public opinion, and he hopes he can go further.

If it weren't for Lynch, Senator Landon would have been doomed long before he was a member of the House of Representatives.

If he succeeds in getting this new job, he will lose his other jobs, which is considered an improvement.

Next, it’s time to vote.

Everyone has to conduct a secret ballot for everyone, and the final selection will be made based on the ranking of the votes.

Of course, if anyone strongly objects to someone taking this job, you can stand up. This is the palace of freedom.

The process was dull and not very pleasant, so Senator Langdon lit a cigarette.

Not just him, many people lit up a cigarette at this time.

So far, the Commonwealth Medical Group has found no evidence that smoking causes death.

This has nothing to do with the large amount of money that the tobacco group sponsors the medical group every year. There is also no evidence to prove any connection between them. They are just isolated incidents.

In addition, most people in today's male-dominated society have a preference for smoking, and the federal government does not yet have a smoking ban problem.

At least even if it were available, it would be difficult to pass it in Congress.

For congressmen, there is nothing more comfortable than lighting up a cigarette when you are having a hard time!

The staff increased the ventilation rate in the hall to prevent a large amount of smoke from accumulating here.

Senator Langdon looked elsewhere and he didn't actually think he would fall off the roster.

Senators, after all, are in the minority!

And there are only a few among the few senators who can directly start working according to the current situation.

The tormenting time always seemed very long, and he smoked one cigarette after another. It was not until more than half an hour later that the list of names was completed and sent to the hands of the speaker.

He looked down for a few times, basically not beyond his judgment.

Since the work content of the Reconstruction Committee is very important to the capitalists, the number of senators will be relatively large when it is constituted.

It's like the budget appropriations committees, where the majority are always senators, not representatives.

It's the same this time.

Eighteen people were selected for this list. After he confirmed it, he had people read it out.

The first to read were the six members of the House of Representatives.

Here, their job is equivalent to running errands.

That may sound disparaging to members of Congress, but it's the truth.

Representatives are just errand-runners in major committees, and their value is to reflect the dignity of senators!

But even so, the six members of the House of Representatives who were selected into the list still showed uncontrollable ecstasy.

Their opinions do not matter much in the work of the committee, but they are still members of the committee.

Sometimes what they need to do is not to decide the final outcome of something, but to deliver some news to the big capitalists behind them in a timely manner.

Moreover, their ability to stand out from the crowd is also due to the efforts of the capital behind them.

Next, is the list of senators.

Senator Langdon took a deep breath, couldn't help but light another cigarette, and sat back with his legs crossed.

One name after another was read out, and until the last one, he was still not there, and he was a little shocked.

Even if he is not as good as the top ten, can he still be inferior to the eight at the back?

It was not only him who was shocked, but also others.

Soon there were calls to review the vote count, which is what happens most often in Congress.

When some votes do not go as expected by some people, they will wonder if someone is cheating, and checking the vote count is a common tactic.

The results of the recount soon came out. Because it was anonymous, no one knew who cast the vote, but everyone could see the number of votes under nomination.

Senator Langdon was ranked twenty-seventh, with nine others ahead of him, and he received a total of...nineteen votes.

He wanted to curse, but it was obvious that there was a traitor in their little group, and someone stabbed him in the back.

If he can get more than twenty-five votes, he can at least be in the top twenty, which also means that some things are easier to operate.

His eyes swept over the people in the small group one by one. Everyone acted like him, with shock on their faces!

No wonder people always say that politicians don’t necessarily need to master any superb political skills, as long as they can act.

And everyone here is more of an actor than a politician.

Confirming that no one had any doubts about the vote itself, the Speaker concluded the questions surrounding the vote.

But this is not the final result, because everyone knows that before announcing the list of the Marillo Reconstruction Committee, they have one last chance, the opportunity to trade!

After coming out of the Capitol, Senator Langdon got into the car with a cold face. He could not find out who did not vote for him now.

He can't find this person, and plain suspicion will make some things get out of control!

He had to discuss it with Lynch first.

When Lynch knew about this, it was already after lunch break.

Needless to say, the value of the committee, whether it is bidding or making resolutions, if there is no one of your own in it, it will definitely not be able to compete with other capital forces.

This is like those private universities in the federation. Good study (bidding plan) is not the only criterion. Sometimes versatility (having one's own talents) is the key to victory.

Every year there are always some people who get into various prestigious universities with poor grades because they can clean tables, cook, sing, tell jokes and other funny reasons.

And those students with very good grades were directly turned away due to "lack of social experience."

This is not a joke, this is reality.

After listening to Senator Langdon's speculation, Lynch calmly comforted him, "You don't have to be too anxious. We still have some time. During this time, we can do a lot of things."

"First of all, we have to talk to the people in front of us to see if they are willing to reach some agreement with us."

"I always believe in one truth..."

"As long as the interests are the same, there is the possibility of compromise!"

"Go contact those people in front of you first!"

"Look what they think."

After hanging up the phone, Lynch pouted. In fact, this result was not too unexpected. It could even be said that he had foreseen Senator Langdon's failure!

From the beginning, he knew that establishing the committee and the roster this time would not be so easy!