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7. Election Reform (10:50)
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase regulation of its federal elections in one or more of the following areas: campaign finance, drawing of legislative districts, foreign electoral intervention, protection of voting rights.
-pam wants to delete areas
-Change to its regulation of federal elections
-Drawing of legislative districts vs redistricting?
-ruth wants to drop protection of voting rights, and foreign electoral intervention
-Election integrity?
New wording
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of federal elections in one or more of the following: campaign finance, foreign electoral intervention, redistricting, protection of voting rights.
-Rich doubles down on dropping the list
-Electoral interference or intervention
-I ask about dropping protection of and making it just voting rights--Passes
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of federal elections in one or more of the following: campaign finance, foreign electoral intervention, redistricting, voting rights.
-do we need the word foreign?
-motion drop foreign and change intervention to interference
Final wording
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of federal elections in one or more of the following: campaign finance, electoral interference, redistricting, voting rights.
8. Health Care (11:10)
Resolved: The United States federal government should ensure universal health coverage in the United States.
-pam suggests guarantee vs ensure--this dies
-discussion of care vs coverage
-diferent versions of the same thing
-do we need language about establishing a coverage
Final Wording
Resolved: The United States federal government should ensure universal health coverage in the United States.
9. Higher Education Reform (11:30)
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulations on higher education institutions in one or more of the following areas: financial aid, federal accountability policies, equitable access.
-deleting the word areas
-change federal accountability policies to just accountability
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulations on higher education institutions in one or more of the following: financial aid, accountability, equitable access.
-alphabetize the list--passes
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulations on higher education institutions in one or more of the following: accountability, equitable access, financial aid.
-Steve--when we do higher ed institutions it moots financial aid, so it should be drop institutions
-its a question of how current regs etc. exist
-the government meets with institutions
-change of instead of on?
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of higher education institutions in one or more of the following: accountability, equitable access, financial aid.
-more discussion about dropping institutions, and it does not really resonate with the wording committee
-after conversation, Darren moves to strike institutions, lowery seconds, and it fails
Final wording
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of higher education institutions in one or more of the following: accountability, equitable access, financial aid.
10. Poverty Public Assistance(11:50)
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid enrollment, the Housing Choice Voucher program.
-put forward two years ago, runner up by a vote, there is no reason to change it
-move to alphabetize the list--passes
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: the Housing Choice Voucher program, Medicaid enrollment, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
-Aaron and Sarah: now there are questions of what neg ground exists, and that's going to make this topic hard
-Ruth and I agree with removing enrollment for medicaid
-I think funding becomes mooted, goldberg disagrees that we will have to fund for more folks who get included, fair point.
-Roger--does not want to call the topic poverty, or you have some issues of equity where rich students are debating poorer students, that it becomes a problem
-Is the title exclusive and problematic
-broader discussions as to why the neg ground on this topic is problematic
Here is where we end, there will be a callback to look at areas over individual programs.
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: the Housing Choice Voucher program, Medicaid enrollment, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
CALLBACKS
4. Critical Infrastructure (9:40)
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase the resilience of one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Banking and Finance; Chemical; Emergency Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
-need to change banking and finance to financial services
-Limits
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase the resilience of one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Chemical; Emergency Services; Financial Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
-Pam says we need to go from 5 to 3
-I suggest getting rid of Emergency Services
-Cort’s suggestion, we need to look at an “establish a policy”
---CALLBACK WORK
-We are deleting emergency services
-play with resilience policy
-look for an area to drop
-enact a resilience policy
-regulation of
-Regulation and/or incentives
-Regulation and/or technical assistance
-standards for resilience
-establish national priorities, goals, and/or requirements
-protection of
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of and/or technical assistance for one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Chemical; Financial Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its funding and/or technical assistance for one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Chemical; Financial Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its resilience incentives for one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Chemical; Financial Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Chemical; Financial Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
These are the four things that I floated to the wording committee
This is the one we move on to
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of and/or technical assistance for one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Chemical; Financial Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
That is the final wording
Here is the callback work on Pov/PA
10. Poverty Public Assistance(11:50)
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid enrollment, the Housing Choice Voucher program.
-put forward two years ago, runner up by a vote, there is no reason to change it
-move to alphabetize the list--passes
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: the Housing Choice Voucher program, Medicaid enrollment, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
-Aaron and Sarah: now there are questions of what neg ground exists, and that's going to make this topic hard
-Ruth and I agree with removing enrollment for medicaid
-I think funding becomes mooted, goldberg disagrees that we will have to fund for more folks who get included, fair point.
-Roger--does not want to call the topic poverty, or you have some issues of equity where rich students are debating poorer students, that it becomes a problem
-Is the title exclusive and problematic
-broader discussions as to why the neg ground on this topic is problematic
Here is where we end, there will be a callback to look at areas over individual programs.
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: the Housing Choice Voucher program, Medicaid enrollment, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
Beginning of callback discussions here about ground accessibility, Goldberg doubles down on why there is neg ground about why the departments are bad, why the welfare system is problematic, tradeoff disadvantages
-I suggest means tested public assistance programs
-does it make the topic too large
-does it exclude housing
-It includes internet/broadband we won’t debate the core programs and have the same problem that Goldberg didn’t like 5 years ago.
Are we leaving or changing
Darren and Chris move to keep the language the same
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: the Housing Choice Voucher program, Medicaid enrollment, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.