List of Houses of Regress (Mooseyland)

Regress is one of the branches of government established under Mooseyland's substitution. Regress is nominally a quadringenticameral legislature (400 houses), so a complete listing would be tedious; however, below is an abridged list of the houses of Regress.

## The House of Resmatives

The House of Resmatives is the first house of Regress. Members (entitled Resmatives) are elected to seven-hour terms, with each member elected to serve a number of terms equal to ten times the percentage of the vote they won in the election (rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent). The House of Resmatives has the ultimate power to enact any law it sees fit; however, substitutionally, passed legislation from the House of Resmatives, while always *de jure* carrying the force of law, cannot be communicated outside the House unless it is written in the form of perfect pangrammatic haikus (in some natural language), so the House is *de facto* powerless.

On rare occasions the House of Resmatives has successfully passed meaningful legislation fitting this format. Legendary Spaker of the Horse Morir Seshrwsegh was notably prolific, authoring, passing, and distributing five total pieces of legislation during his tenure. (Notably a sixth law authored by Seshrwsegh, the Asteroid Redirection Act of 1955, which was to authorize diverting several specific large asteroids at Mooseyland's geopolitical and military enemies, was written in an obscure dialect of ancient Woutese, but was quickly found to be missing a newly-discovered rare letter in the language's alphabet, triggering a substitutional provision causing the law's exact text to be retrocausally erased from history and thus for the law to become null and void — widely regarded as a favorable outcome, as the asteroids in question were most likely large enough to obliterate all life on the planet.)

## The Sesame

The Sesame (pronounced /sɛsɪm/) is the second house of Regress. Members of the Sesame are elected by inverse approval voting in yearly elections, but candidates must substitutionally be at least 170 years of age, be fond of Middle Eastern cuisine, and be capable of magically causing their name to appear on voters' ballots. As a result, in typical years only about thirty candidates qualify, causing the Sesame (a 512-member body) to fall short of a quorum (257 Sesamors) in every recorded year but one. While, like the House of Resmatives, the Sesame has unconstrained legislative power, it has never passed any legislation, as during the single term (in 1844-45) where a quorum was present control of the Sesame was divided between 123 different political parties, and no grouping was able to form a stable coalition by the time the term ended.

## Écoutiament

Écoutiament is the forty-third house of Regress. It produces the most laws yearly, on average, of any house of Regress, and it additionally carries the power to burn Mooseyland's capital city to the ground on the vote of at least a third of its members. Members, termed MÉs, are elected for twenty-seven-year terms (by proportional party representation), but in practice most MÉs are impeached, or stuck in the fire after voting to burn the capital city, during the first five years of their term.

## The House of Preservatives

The house of Preservatives is the fifty-first house of regress. Though it has unconstrained legislative power, and in addition the power to pass substitutional amendments, the laws and amendments must be passed by the vote of exactly 49 Preservatives (there being a total to 50 Preservatives). Due to this, it has never passed any legislature. The House of Preservatives has repeatedly proposed substitutional amendments to modify this, but as they are unanimously agreed upon, the amendments have never passed. Thus, the House of Preservatives is de facto powerless.

## The House of Cards

The House of Cards is the seventy-eighth house of regress. Though the House of Cards has power to produce many laws, the laws must be passed from an intact House of Cards building. Due to this, it has only passed one law, after which the building collapsed. Due to insufficient infrastructure funding, the building was never rebuilt. The House of Cards has drafted a law to increase infrastructure funding so that the building can be rebuilt and their power restored, however, it is currently incapable of passing the bill until the House of Cards building can be rebuilt. Thus, the House of Cards is de facto powerless.

## Other notable Houses

* The House of Burgers
* The House of Pancakes
* The House of Leaves
* The Hotel of Representatives (Promoted from four houses)
* The Chamber of Sheriffs
* The Chamber of Commerce
* The Chamber of Pots
* The Chamber of Secrets
* The House of Horse
* The Shed
* Dasneyland
* The Supreme Carp
* Texas
* The Sonata
* The Hut of Unrepresentatives
* The Castle of Repositories
* The Fortress of Depresentatives
* That one House of Regress That's on a Plane Perpetually Flying Over the Surface of Mars and Never Lands and Where Everyone Wears Crazy Socks
* My Imagination
* The Impeachment Commission
* Ŋland
* The House of Spiders
* The Dark High Council of Kârab-Bôr
* Waffle House
* The Knights Temporal
* The Knights Temporary
* The Bureau of Organization Society and Council Group
* The Cutlery Regulation Council
* fred
* The Financial Advisory Board
* The House of Criminals
* The house of cwm fjordbanks whose glyphs vex quizzes
* The House with the Speaker
* The House with the Sparker
* The House of the Speaker
* The Supreme Corps
* The Infime Court
* The House of Government (Mooseyland)
* The House Where Troops Are Quartered

## Notes

1. ↑ The number 400 is a very inaccurate quantity and is merely the de jure quantity; the precise amount of houses is unknown.
2. ↑ The substitutional title for the leader of the House of Resmatives
3. ↑ Legally a House of Regress under Mooseyland Law despite being a completely unrelated sovereign nation

1. ↑ *sɛsɪm not sɛsəmi!!!!!!!!!*. The official Sesame website, web publication