Blackstone Code

The enlarged committee meetings of the National Assembly are attended by specialized committees and additional members, and may also include the candidate speaker and the speaker himself.

For example, the current meeting of the Emergency Committee is holding a discussion meeting on the possibility that a large number of privately built shelters will impact the federal shelter resettlement plan.

The interests involved in the topic of this meeting far exceed the scope of the emergency committee, so an enlarged meeting must be held for discussion to allow more members to participate.

But as the core "main participants", the members of the Emergency Committee all sat in the most prominent positions in the front row.

Catherine sat in the third seat from the left-hand aisle in the first row of the conference room, where she was also the No. 3 person on the Emergency Committee.

The No. 1 position is held by a senior congressional thorn in the Senate. At the same time, this thorn is also the main standing member of the Federal Budget Committee. His family also has an extraordinary background and is a typical political family.

His ancestors appear in that famous oil painting, and family members are proud of it.

The second person has roughly the same background, but he is older, already seventy-four years old, and often doesn't care about things.

Although he is also a standing committee member and is responsible for a lot of internal work of the committee, due to his physical condition, his power, work, and responsibilities are often borne partly by Catherine and partly by Committee Member No. 1.

In other words, Catherine is actually a number two.

The reason why there is such a ranking method is also Lynch's request.

This is the first time Catherine has entered the Senate. Her qualifications are actually very shallow. It is impossible for her to directly become the number one person on the Emergency Committee.

The number one person on such an important committee must be held by a very heavyweight person. At the same time, the number two person is not suitable. After all, she is too young.

So Lynch found an old guy who was basically in a state of retirement, except for raising his hand when voting, to sit in this position.

He did not need to do any work, and most of the tasks assigned to him, including power, were delegated to Catherine.

The work that Catherine is responsible for is not that important. To some extent, her job status is even worse than that of the fourth person.

But most of the No. 2 person's work is entrusted to her, so her status cannot be judged simply by her job.

No one raised any objections to Lynch's method of operation. After all, everyone's dignity was taken care of.

In addition, the Blackstone family has now become a super monster integrating capital and power. Congress will not fall out with Lynch without touching its own core interests.

It’s impossible to even say a few harsh words!

The atmosphere in the conference room was very subtle at this time. Everyone seemed to have a lot of ideas, and they were constantly looking for goals through their eyes.

But no one stood up clearly and said something. Everyone was listening to the report in the hands of a staff member.

Connor submitted the problem to Congress, which immediately launched an investigation mechanism, established an investigation team, and then began an in-depth investigation into the construction of various private shelters.

In fact, no one thought this was a problem at first, including Catherine, who thought it shouldn't be a big problem. It wasn't until the investigation team got roughly detailed data that people discovered that this was indeed a fucking problem!

"...Currently, through local city halls, the state government has approved the development of more than 200 commercial profit-making shelters, and about 170 more are in the process of application."

"There are more than 500 non-commercial private shelters, the largest of which can accommodate 2,000 to 3,000 people, and the smallest of which can accommodate 100 people."

"During the investigation, we discovered that during the actual evidence collection process, many individual or community shelters were built without declaration."

"The specific number is difficult to define. Some shelters have the construction standards of a true shelter, such as being deep underground and having functional systems."

"But there are also some shelters that look like warm cellars and do not have the function of shelters, but the builders insist that what they are building is shelters and say that they will live in the shelters..."

This data was shocking. When the staff sat down after reading the report, the speaker took off his glasses and sat back in his chair.

Most people here are like this, and only a handful of people listen to the report being read out with their eyes closed and their faces serious.

More people were listening to the staff read out the contents of the report, while comparing the text on the information and reading down simultaneously.

This is a very strange habit. Most people do not believe what they hear, but believe what they see with their own eyes.

This situation often occurs when it comes to serious issues, and it is also a common problem among those in higher positions. They always subconsciously think that those in lower positions may fool them.

He held a deerskin glasses cloth in his hand and wiped the lenses. "Let's talk about it. We may have encountered some problems and overlooked some important factors, which makes us face a choice now."

Everyone knew what the Speaker was talking about, and the official shelters were built to accommodate ninety percent of the Federation's inhabitants.

There is a high probability that a small half of the remaining ten percent will enter the refuge of the consortium or the refuge of the party. Even so, there will still be about two to three to three to four million people who have no place to take them. them.

But now, a large number of commercial shelters have completed the first and second phases of their projects. They suddenly discovered that they were not the only ones who had a long-term vision and saw this undeveloped commercial soil.

The sudden emergence of hundreds of shelters gave ordinary people more options, not just a handful.

Although official shelters are free, they cannot provide people with a more comfortable living environment.

Private shelters may charge a fee, but the environment here is more suitable for those who like to enjoy themselves.

In order to compete for these people with spending power, some shelters have begun to compete for customers.

From the moment an egg becomes fertilized, capital is silently integrated into people's lives.

Even if a person dies and is buried in the soil, he still cannot escape the power of capital.

If they don't want their graves to be overgrown with weeds!

Now, the power of capital is targeting shelters and the middle and upper-middle classes who cannot mix with the privileged class in official shelters but need to enjoy themselves.

These people are no different from ordinary people in official shelters, but in private shelters, they can still enjoy a life above the middle class.

This is very attractive!

The last member of the Emergency Committee patted the microphone and expressed his opinion.

"The many preferential policies offered by these private shelters can attract many people to join them, and we have reason to believe that when the countdown begins, they will further lower their requirements."

"This means that the public shelters built by the federal government will have millions more vacancies than planned. If these vacancies were arranged together, we would have spent tens of billions more to build one more shelter."

"At the same time, we cannot agree with the safety nature of these private shelters. They have no way to ensure that their shelters can always maintain a good living environment."

"If a disaster occurs, it will be devastating."

"We currently do not have any safety standards in this regard, and there are no safety specifications for us to refer to..."

These ideas are actually the result of discussions within the committee over the past two days.

It's just that different people express the opinions within the committee, and then after the Senate votes, it is sent to the House of Representatives to improve the content and implement it.

Commissioner No. 1 continued his words, "What we need to do most now is to establish a set of specifications and standards for the construction of private shelters, a set of rigorous standards."

“And suspend the review and approval of all projects, whether for-profit or non-profit, until the standards we set are introduced.”

"For shelters that have already been built, our view is to allow them to upgrade their internal configurations within the deadline to make them comply with the new private shelter standards."

One councilor coughed and interrupted Councilor No. 1, "This is difficult to do. We all know that shelters are expensive to build."

“These shelters have already been built, or are more than a third of the way through construction, and the cost is huge, and it’s very difficult to get them to stop.”

"Instead of shutting down work, they're going to litigate us, and I think it's going to be very difficult for us to win without us interfering with the administration of justice."

"Unless we can come up with something that meets their conditions and demands, it's not going to be easy to push these forward."

Committee Member No. 1 was not embarrassed by being interrupted. There were only so many people in the Senate, and everyone was familiar with them. In fact, most of their private relationships were not bad.

The federal political arena is like this, regardless of whether everyone is a progressive party, a conservative party, other parties or independents.

But they don't hate each other just because of their different camps.

Faction is never the factor that influences their decisions, interests are!

Listening to this person's speech, member No. 1 did not deny this, "So we need some capitalists to join our discussion. This matter cannot be done by ourselves. We need more power."

"Sometimes they know better than we do how we should solve the problems that are related to them, so I think it is necessary for us to continue to further expand the scope of the meeting, Mr. Speaker, and all members!"