Chapter 245 - California and the Battle of Congress
Before Huang Yuan could speak, one of the people in the parliament on the other side immediately walked out under the signal of the speaker's eyes.
"Mr. Wong, I'm a member of Congress, and I think you should know why our Congress is doing this."
Kvis said in a nutshell, "Look at the military orders you submitted in California!"
"150 Super Performance Fighters, 200,000 Beam Guns, 50,000 New EXO Individual Armor"
After listening to the councilor's description, Huang Yuan couldn't help but be moved.
This California is too ruthless, and this series of orders is enough for California to beat any country in continental Europe.
But the amount of this order is not cheap.
Xingchao Saiyan's products are of high quality and low price, but that order is close to seven or eight billion US dollars.
This amount was not included in the concession that Huang Yuan had promised to Ellis.
That's right, California ZF pays in full, no discounts, it's so tyrant.
California's GDP was close to $5 trillion last year, while the overall GDP of North America last year was less than $24 trillion.
On the other side of the ocean, Guangzhou, a major economic province, had a GDP of only about $1.8 trillion last year.
This shows how rich California is.
"You have to order all kinds of needs through Congress, and Congress decides which items on the purchase order are approved and which are forbidden."
"Congress has sent a judicial bill to the Supreme Court that would restrict state procurement," Kvis continued.
"Your procurement is already within the scope of military procurement."
"This is already a right that cannot be exercised by the state ZF alone, that is, it is a matter of defense and finance."
Huang Yuan sneered in his heart.
This may seem like a high-sounding statement, although it is indeed possible to create a situation in which the strong support the weak do.
But it is undeniable that more Congress does not want to miss out on this profit, which is at least more than 10 billion profits.
Who wants to just give up?
Huang Yuan looked at Ellis, who shrugged helplessly.
At this point, he is still subjectively on the side of Congress.
After all, in any case, the decision of Congress has a great guarantee for the status of the White House, and at the same time, it also has a good guarantee for the ZZ environment and ecology in North America.
"I don't agree, at most, all the products purchased by California ZF will be submitted to Congress for the record!"
Los Angeles Mayor McCott said solemnly: "It's not about national defense, it's about the infrastructure needed for urban infrastructure."
"Those weapons and equipment are the equipment procurement that belongs to the needs of the National Guard, and the state ZF will pay for it!"
"This is a clearly written ordinance in the judiciary, and your Congress has no right to interfere with the autonomy of the California ZF over the California National Guard in a state of war!"
Now Huang Yuan understands why California ZF can argue with people in Congress like this.
North America is a ZZ environment that comes first and then has a state, and the state ZF has legislative, judicial, and administrative powers.
It's just that there is no national defense, taxation, foreign affairs, currency banking, etc., which the federal ZF has the authority to have.
And the National Guard, on the other hand, is the military force of the state ZF, strictly speaking, the militia of the state ZF.
In times of non-state war, the National Guard of each state obeys only the governor's orders and can refuse to carry out orders of the White House or Congress in non-war times.
Or, it can be understood in a sentence: the National Guard, that is, the private mercenaries of the state ZF.
If it is normal to say that the state ZF helps its National Guard to purchase equipment, it is indeed not subject to congressional restrictions, at most it is reported.
But Congress saw that the huge interest and immediately stopped doing it.
North America's military spending is only about $900 billion a year, and the profits of this $10 billion are rich enough.
Moreover, this is the city of Los Angeles, and if all the cities in North America are renovated in the future, the time will come
All orders go through Congress.
How big will the profits be then?
So no matter how shameless Congress is, it must take this money.
At this time, the members of the National Assembly were calm, even confident.
Councilman Cavis stood up and retorted, "The city of Los Angeles is now under the destruction of the natural disaster and cannot effectively exercise the ZL right, so the federal ZF has the right to exercise jurisdiction."
"Pochette!"
McCott slapped the table and stood up and said loudly, "After the disaster, the California ZF has taken over as soon as possible, when will it be the turn of the federal ZF to take over?"
This is something that the California ZF cannot back down because it involves the executive power of the state ZF.
"Right in the first moment of the destruction of Los Angeles."
After speaking, Cavis took out a document from the briefcase next to him and handed it to Gavin and McCott.
Gavin picked it up and looked at it, his face suddenly became extremely ugly, and then handed it to McCott on the side.
McCourt was furious when he saw it, and slapped the table again and pointed at Kweiss and said, "You guys are so shameless, you didn't think about how to help the disaster on the day of the disaster, and you actually set us up!"
"Don't you feel ashamed to take advantage of this kind of behavior?"
When the people in Congress heard these words, their faces were as usual, ZK has always been like this, how can it succeed if it is not thick-skinned and not black-hearted?
"Okay, sit down, can you talk all the time?"
At this time, Ellis came out and said, "You can't get any results from arguing like this, why don't you let me do a mediation?"
came, the black-faced one finished singing and the red-faced one came on the stage, and Huang Yuan complained in his heart.
"How do you mediate?" Gavin asked in a deep voice.
Ellis said slowly, "All your orders still need to be ordered from Star Tide Saiya through Congress, and the money also needs to be approved by Congress."
"But the Congress guarantees that it will not get stuck in your list, and everything will go according to the normal process, and the records will be filed, how about it?"
"You can rest assured that Mr. Huang is here, and he can act as a notary."
Gavin's eyes narrowed slightly, he knew that Congress and the White House were interested in the profits of the sale, and it was impossible to make concessions.
If the state ZF forcibly goes against the federal ZF, there will basically be no good results.
But aren't ZZBY usually compromises with each other?
So, Gavin took a deep breath and said, "Okay, for Mr. Huang's sake of helping us so much in California, I agreed."
"But you have to be assured that Congress must give us some preferential treatment, and don't think I don't know that you have an internal agreement with the Star Tide Saiyan Corporation."
Huang Yuan couldn't help but shake his head slightly, these guys actually took him as a matter of talking to him in front of him.
These ZKs are also cows, and they were so noisy that they blushed and had a thick neck in the last second, but now they shake hands and make peace when the interests are negotiated.
Ellis's eyes moved slightly to look at Huang Yuan, and then smiled slightly, "Okay, no problem, then say so?"
Gavin nodded and said, "No problem, I can sign an agreement with the federal ZF at any time and distribute it."