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	Accountability and the Second House "The bicameral structure undermines the accountability of individual legislators by clouding their responsibility for decisions. Legislators in one house can blame decisions on the other house. They can vote for a measure they oppose, or against one they favor, knowing that the other house will reject the result. They are impelled to design legislation not on the merits but rather as ploys to improve their bargaining position with the other house. Members of a unicameral legislature cannot disguise, yield, or distort their decision-making responsibility in these ways. As a result, citizens are able to fix responsibility for decisions and hold legislators to account for their actions." - from the Minnesota House of Representatives
	Why a Unicameral National Legislature? 1 - The purpose of the U.S. Senate has always been to bottleneck the will of the people as expressed by the Representatives in the U.S. Congress. According to the surveys by political scientists, the days when American voters have a regional identification are gone. The modern American voter identifies much more with their political affiliation then they do with their region or state. Therefore, the United States Senate is obsolete and the Senators should ride off into the sunset. Goodbye, 100 U.S. Senators. Hello, 565 new members of the House of Representatives providing better representation for EVERYONE. 2 - The United States should switch from a bicameral national legislature to a unicameral system. Since the population of the United States has increased from 4 million in 1790 to 270 million, today; we should increase the number of U.S. Representatives in our new Congress from the current 435 Representatives to an easy to proportion 1000. 3 - Without "proportional representation" America does NOT have a TRUE multi-party system. In the countries that do have "proportional representation" the percentage of the adults who register to vote is MUCH higher (Finland 95%, U.S.A. 55%), thus making their government MORE representational. According to "proportional representation", we suggest that the 1000 U.S. Representatives should be pro-rated among the national political parties with at least 5% according to the ratio of the number of registered voters. 4 - With the assistance of a panel of 5 Federal judges, recruited by the Federal Election Commission, each of the national political parties with at least 5% voter registration are responsible for apportioning their own districts throughout the United States, so that an equal number of voters are in each district as per that party's registered voters. The districts of each of the political parties will overlap though each district of each party may be a different geographic size and shape, ie 5 different parties - 5 different district maps. 5 - For practical reasons, a district boundary can cross a state boundary. The Reno, Memphis, El Paso, and Kansas City areas are realistic examples. Some of the districts of the smaller parties might include several states. 6 - Submitted legislative bills should contain only one subject and a five-day minimum should elapse between a bill’s introduction and the vote for passage. 7 - No independent Representatives. A Representative must be a member of a political party with at least 5% of the registered voters. 8 - Every other year, half (500) of the Representatives should be elected for a 4-year term. Just say no to bicameralism Unicameral or Bicameral State Legislatures? U.S. Senator George Norris
	Why Unicameral State Legislatures? All the state legislatures should be unicameral, also. Since a Supreme Court ruling in the 1960s ruled that both state houses must be apportioned according to population, why keep the redundancy of two houses? Wouldn't the voters of a state be better served with the current number of state senators joining the ranks of the state representatives, thus having more state representative districts which could lighten the representatives' work load and provide BETTER representation? An example: in New Mexico, the state senate should be closed and those 42 seats could be added to the current 70 state representatives for a new unicameral legislature of 112 districts to be pro-rated among the 5 largest political parties in New Mexico.
	Those who want corruption love a senate It's much easier to bottleneck progressive legislation wherever there's a senate. Max Baucus, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee got almost $3,800,000 from the "healthcare industry" for his re-election campaign between 1998-2008. Not only did he exclude a "single-payer" provision from the bill that was released from his committee in September 2009, but a "public option" was excluded from that bill, also. Even though 63% of the American voters want either single-payer or public option for serious healthcare policy reform. And 65% of the doctors want that, too. There can still be bribery in a unicameral legislature. It's just much more expensive, since many more palms need to be greased.
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	Countries (and provinces) which have a unicameral national (or state) legislature include: (Bavaria), Benin, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Djibouti, East Timor, El Salvador, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Micronesia, (Nebraska), New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Phillipines, Portugal, (Quebec), (Queensland), (Scotland), Slovenia, Somalia, Samoa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam & (Wales).
	What you can do Don't contribute to the campaign of a candidate running for U.S. Senate or State Senate unless they take the Unicameral.Org pledge as a part of their campaign platform to "cease the senate." Tell your friends about the Unicameral.Org website. Please have unicameralist senators (U.S. & state) and candidates for senate contact us to let us know that they agree to the wisdom of having a unicameral legislature. We'll put their names onto this website. National Unicameral PAC PO Box 3326 Moriarty, NM 87035-3326 USA
	+ Voter turnout among Americans in 2002 elections: 39% + Voter turnout among Germans in 2002 elections: 75% Center for Public Integrity + Fans of unicameral legislature: Andrew Homer, Bill Maher, Jesse Ventura.