Old-time musicians

Chapter 599 Congressional Reform Act

"There are still more than four months before the deadline, right?" Roy frowned, "Is it too early to discuss this issue now?"

She started preparing for the establishment of the academy in August of the year before last, and it took some twists and turns to negotiate with her father and the school.

I won't go into the details of the process, but in the end they agreed on a two-year deadline.

I originally thought that my father was talking about an approximate duration, and I thought that at least he would postpone it until the end of the Harvest Art Festival.

I didn't expect that he would "call me back" four months in advance.

"From the perspective of the school's personnel work, to prepare for a mid-level position, such as the principal of a public school, you need to make room, sort out work, find excellent high-level members, and listen to opinions from all parties at least three months in advance. This is just a mid-level position."

"So, Mr. Roy, do you think your rhetorical question reflects your level?"

It is obviously not a wise choice to get into an argument with this female speaker boss who is specialized in her field. Roy did not show any negative emotions on his face, but said lightly:

"Strictly speaking, the time is until August 25 this year. If I return to the school to formally take charge of specific affairs, I will reorganize the art teaching system and evaluation system of all public schools, and enhance the hematopoietic capacity of high-level "grades" to adapt to the current promotion control mechanism of the Proficient"

When Roy said these words, Frances' eyes softened slightly.

At least, this young lady still has a clear plan in her mind.

The answer was very straightforward, not avoiding the topic or dragging it out.

The direction she mentioned is indeed the current central work of the school.

Of course, any systematic affairs are complicated, and this matter is very difficult.

Judging from the performance of Turner Art Cinema over the past year, there are only some highlights that can be used as reference.

Moreover, in Frances's view, their highlights are mainly in "making money".

More than 100 public schools in the empire, how many generations of accumulation of the school? In contrast, Turner Art Cinema has spread its stall too much, relying entirely on money, and its teaching staff relies heavily on academic and church schools. Half of its work focuses on public welfare and popularization, and it has also performed mediocrely in the exploration of modern music over the past year. In short, it is not completely worthy of being regarded as a criterion.

"But" Roy changed the subject at this time, "smarter leaders can see that if I continue to maintain a deep cooperative relationship with the cinema, it will only bring more benefits to the school."

Of course, she still hopes that everything will transition smoothly to the Harvest Art Festival.

"Oh?"

Frances, who originally had a "rational" attitude towards Turner Cinemas, suddenly "collided" with Roy's conclusive statement.

The corners of her mouth twitched slightly and then recovered, and she turned the stack of documents in her hand to face Roy.

"Just right, the topic seamlessly connects to the next thing."

"Then, Mr. Roy, please sign your opinion. Let me see what your attitude is when facing the guiding school of "deep cooperation" and the group of guys in the authorities. It's better to have some substantive opinions on how to deal with it, not like the following people who are unconstructive."

"Guiding school? And the authorities?" Roy was a little confused and lowered his head to read.

The first sheet of the document was the "High-level Signature Form" in the school's official document list.

In the bottom-up opinion column, the opinions of higher-level mentors have not yet been signed, but from the few words written by the few people, they all strongly oppose it.

"Congressional Reform Act?" She frowned and turned to the second page.

What is the Special Patrol Office doing?

The Congress of Theolian is composed of the House of Commons and the House of Commons.

The House of Commons includes royal nobles, academic cliques, nobles and clergy, which are controlled by the Bologna School, and the Holy Sun Church also has a certain influence.

The House of Commons includes middle-class and civilians such as large factory owners, lawyers, doctors, and engineers. There is an absolute difference in the social base of the two. The former is very small, and the latter is very large. However, in terms of the proportion of members, the number is nearly 6:4. Obviously, the Special Patrol Office, which represents the interests of the factory owner class, has the dominant power, and the Guiding School is in a subordinate position.

There have been 8 large-scale reforms of the relevant systems of the Congress in the past two hundred years. Each time, power has been transferred more to the House of Commons. It should be said that in the steam age when the Special Patrol Office and the factory owner class rose, this is a historical trend that is difficult to change.

Roy quickly flipped through the documents and soon extracted two clauses that were more critical:

"The number of candidates nominated by the House of Lords for the House of Commons will be reduced by 30-40% in various fields."

"After the bills in the 26 financial fields are passed by the House of Commons, they no longer need to be approved by the House of Lords."

"Sure enough, the focus is on the right to nominate and the right to finance"

They are all core issues.

It goes without saying that the right to nominate candidates is also the core of the cabinet's administrative power. To give the simplest example, one of the main sources of funding for public schools is the annual financial appropriation.

Roy remembered that in the previous version of the "Parliament Act", the meaning of the financial bill was "the House of Lords has two one-month rejection rights, and the third must agree."

Now it has become "no need to be approved by the House of Lords."

She flipped to the last page.

This is the result of the previous solicitation of opinions on the "Congress Reform Bill" in the House of Commons. The bill was passed in the first reading with 850 votes in favor, 32 abstentions, and 2 votes against.

Not considering the Special Patrol Office standing behind the factory owners, the other half of the middle-class and civilian members of the Guidance School were almost unanimous.

The next step now is to submit it to the House of Lords for opinions. Finally, such an important core bill must be formally decided through a "joint meeting".

In theory, every member of parliament may change his or her will.

But politics is often a "pre-brewing and unanimous decision" thing. For most votes, you can see 70% to 80% of the trends and results without waiting until the day of the formal meeting.

After Roy pondered for a while, he unscrewed the cap of the pen in his hand, sucked the ink, leaned against the wall, and wrote quickly.

"Conditional consent?" Frances saw the first few words.

She thought Roy's handling opinion would be "calling on all members to vote against", but she didn't expect it to be "conditional consent"?

This is just to propose some supplementary clauses, and promise to agree on the premise of approval.

If the members follow this opinion, it will also be recorded as a support vote in the statistics of the House of Lords at that time!

Frances stared at Roy's handwriting, wanting to see what premise and supplementary clauses she proposed.

"Further lower the threshold for studying at the Empire School" is a summary sentence.

There are three levels below: "Expand the proportion of middle-class and civilian enrollment quotas, set up a diversified scholarship and bursary system; expand the channels for further degree studies and further education, and attract outstanding scholars from county city colleges and Turner Art Academy to study for a doctorate; agree to cut some fixed annual financial budgets for public schools, but must make an equal replacement by increasing the tax rate of the Empire Cultural Industry."

"What exactly is your intention?"

The moment Roy signed and closed the pen cap, the female speaker asked seriously.

She didn't understand.

Supplementary clauses are generally a kind of concession game between different classes. You want to take away my part of the benefits, fine, but if you want me not to strongly oppose it, I want you to promise to give up another part of the benefits!

But what is this about?

If it weren't for the elegant signature font that read "Roy McAdam", Frances would have thought that this was a clause proposed by a member of the House of Commons!

"Madam Speaker, do you realize that..."

Roy smoothed his long hair and slowly leaned back to the seat opposite.

"On the surface, these two or three points of concessions are mainly for the middle class and civilians, but who will get it, who will not get it, and who will be given priority, the dominant distribution rights are all in the hands of my Bologna School!"