Rescinded Congressional Questions Time Act

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To enable Congressional question time

The people of Democracy Craft, through their elected representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the “Congressional question time Act”.
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

2-Purpose and Functionality
a)The Purpose of Congressional question time is a chance for members of Congress to ask Secretaries questions on what future plans they have for their department and how they plan to carry out these plans/actions.
b) To ensure transparency and accountability all question times must be recorded and written down by the Clerk in a document or by another congressional official if the Clerk is unavailable, These documents should be made available to the general public at the earliest possible time.
c) There must be a minimum of Three representatives in attendance at each question time.

3- Schedule
a) Question time will occur when the Congress passes a motion by a simple majority to request the testimony of a secretary.
b) The Speaker of Congress shall propose not fewer than two and not more than four times to the Secretary/Secretaries requested to appear before Congress.
c) If no time proposed by the Speaker works for the Secretary/Secretaries, the Secretary may request an alternate time from the Speaker or a member of their office.
d) Once a time is agreed upon, the Speaker of Congress is to announce via #government-announcements that a meeting has been scheduled. This announcement is to come no fewer than three days prior to the meeting.
e) In the event that a time cannot be arranged with a Secretary, they may nominate their deputy or a member of the relevant cabinet department to represent them, or to submit responses to Congress's questions in writing.

4- Conduct
a) Testimony is to be heard in either of the hearing rooms in the capitol.
b) The hearing is to be presided over by either the chair of the committee impaneled to hear testimony or the Speaker of Congress. How the members of Congress determine the chair of the committee is to be up to the members of Congress, as is the composition of the committee.
c) Representatives will ask questions of the Secretary or their appointed representative in descending order of seniority. the Secretary is expected to be truthful in their responses.
d) If requested, members of the committee impaneled to hear testimony shall provide written copies of the questions they wish to ask.
e) Meetings are to be open to the public, and a report is to be published by the congressional Press Assistant following each meeting.
5 - Legal obligation
a) When a Secretary's presence is requested by the Congress, they are required to attend a hearing when scheduled as outlined above.
b) Secretaries are obligated to attend a hearing or provide testimony in writing when summoned by Congress. Secretaries may meet their legal obligation under this clause by appointing their deputy or another member of their department to stand in for them, or by submitting responses to questions asked by Congress in writing.
c) If a Secretary fails to meet their obligations under this section, they may be fined an amount not greater than 500 dollars if a super majority in Congress holds the Secretary in contempt.
d) If a Secretary fails to meet their obligations repeatedly, Congress reserves the power to remove the Secretary through Impeachment.

6 - Limitations
a) Congress may not require testimony from any one secretary more than once in a period of 6 weeks.
b) This limitation does not apply to summons before an impeachment trial
 
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