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So some back story first:
Andover leaked information about an ongoing discussion in congress about whether or not to auto-impeach 
Shylock if he won the presidential elections. The impeachment was to be based on prior offenses by Shylock . Since Stego lost the election that discussion no longer exists so don’t start it up in the comments *Stern Look*.
The discussion this leak raised however was about the transparency (or lack thereof) about going ons in Congress. Now I have been on IRC talking with others and (I believe) we all agree that a discussion about congressional transparency is long over do. The goal of this discussion? To find out what should and shouldn’t be discussed within reach of the public. Different people may have different goals but mine are simple:
To get lots and lots of citizens involved.
To get set rules about what can and can’t be discussed in public.
To have a thread visible to the public on our boards (but one only congress members can edit) for discussions that can be discussed in public.
To have private discussions released after a certain amount of time.
To have punishments for those who leak private material.
To have the rules for this (whatever they may be) put in place by way of a referendum.
To have a clause for congress members who leak private material to escape punishment if the private material was actually supposed to be public.
Those are my goals for this discussion. I believe that this will give Congress just the right amount of transparency while still keeping secret things, like war, secret. Now I don't know who will take on the task of drafting a much needed rulebook, maybe our newly elected overlord
Shepherd Of Fire will put some slaves to work on it. 
Whoever does tackle this I humbly ask to be included since this is a subject I care deeply about.
Update:
Sir Hypnotoad Has started a thread on our boards to discuss this. HERE
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USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
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