Dmitri Lel'

**Born:** Dmitri Lel'.6th of September 1977Kotzebue, Alaska, U.S.

Dmitri Lel' was born on 6/9/1977, to Vladimir Lel'. Dmitri Lel' is the incumbent Senator from the Pacific, and a member of the Democratic Party.

## United States Senate

Dmitri Lel' was elected to the United States Senate in 2008. Upon assuming office, he begin to pursue his progressive policy. He was the only Senator that voted against the War in Libya. Lel' also tried, more than 5 times, to roll back President Demask and Bloomberg's oil drilling expansions, passed in the 90s and early 2000s. While unsuccessful at first, he was able to compromise with President Sherman and get a 60% reduction in oil exploration subsidies. In 2019, when Democrats won a veto-proof majority in Congress, Lel' was able to repeal the oil drilling expansions, overriding the President's veto.

Lel's bills were frequently tabled by the President Pro Tempore or the Vice President, leading him to despise the power held in those positions.

## President Pro Tempore

Dmitri Lel' became President Pro Tempore after a heated exchange with Senator Lovecraft on the floor of the Senate. He promised to hold hearings for an ample amount of time, which ultimately cost him his own nomination as Secretary of State, and he promised to not table a single bill. Despite keeping both promises, he resigned from the office after Senator Cole called a vote to vacate to the position.

As President Pro Tempore, Lel's main objective was to change the standing rules to prevent the President Pro Tempore or the Vice President from tabling bills. After months of debate and partisan blockade and gridlock, the rules changed passed, 8-4. This changed altered the way the Senate operated for many years to come.

## Senate Majority Leader

At the beginning of the 119th Congress, Dmitri Lel' was chosen to be Senate Majority Leader by the Democratic Congress, choosing not to run again for President Pro Tempore. Although there was speculation that Senator Vermin Nil was going to run for Senate Majority Leader, he ultimately chickened out and there was no opposition to Lel'.

With a 2/3rds Democrat majority in the Senate, and with the powers of the PPT stripped away, Dmitri Lel' was able to be become, arguably, one of the most powerful and influential Senators in American History. During this time, with President Andrew Williams at the helm, Dmitri Lel' was able to ram through his leftist agenda, including higher taxes and more relief for a struggling economy after the Paleo-Virus, along with major pieces of environmental protection legislation and a plan to phase out gasoline cars by 2035, only stopping to compromise with moderates in the House.

#### **Great American Outdoors Act**

Lel' was able to effectively ban fracking and oil drilling on federal lands by 2030 through the Great American Outdoors Act, by forcing lease pricing to increase every year to a point where drilling was no longer profitable anymore. The Great American Outdoors Act was also a major piece of legislation that permanently funded the Land and Wildlife Conservation Fund, created sometime before by another piece of legislation Lel' introduced. This Act also begin the process for re-introducing wolves into Yellowstone National Park, and across the Rocky Mountains, a move that was later finalized by Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources Vermin Nil.

#### **Post Paleo-Virus Revitalization Act**

Probably the most landmark piece of legislation that Lel' passed, the Post Paleo-Virus Revitalization Act was a wide-spreading bill that greatly increased taxes on the rich, promoted clean energy and clean technologies, and helped bring America out of a recession.

This Act included a one time 45% wealth tax on gains made by those with a net worth over $1,000,000,000 during the pandemic. It also hiked taxes on the top 10%, with a 7% increase on the top 1%. The bill also re-funded social security by increasing payroll taxes, as well as increasing the capital gains tax by 6.6%.

The bill also included multiple environmental provisions. It introduced an excise tax on Uranium that would fund research for Thorium plants, and it created new plastic taxes that would help fund bio-plastic research. Probably the most environmentally friendly provision of the bill was the fracking regulations that it put in place. By taxing large water withdrawals, and limiting the amount of water that could be withdrawn for fracking, it made it much harder for fracking companies to keep costs lower. The bill also banned fracking on tribal lands, and put the nail in the coffin for fracking on federal lands---any that was still in operation after the Great American Outdoors Act. Lastly, the bill banned gas flaring, a practice used by fracking companies to burn off natural gas, forcing them to capture that gas instead.