It is a bit dark, but read the ability texts a bit more closely. The ability is specifically about American children and NOT children from other countries.
I just had two ideas you've probably heard before. One was the ability to withdraw bills you've introduced. Probably would cost some clout to do that, to disincentives doing it, but I think it would be a nice option. Other idea, being able to introduce a bill to impeach the president. Not sure on the details for that one. Probably would want it to cost lots of clout, and likely make it like a binary bill, and/or require a vote after/if it passes. All I know is I'm sick of Socialist, and Liberal, and Green bills getting vetoed, but I don't want risk trying to assassinate the guy. Just some ideas I hadn't seen that I thought I'd throw out there.
I don't think anyone's suggested that first one, actually... why would you want to? Impeaching the president isn't a bad idea in theory, but there has to be some actual reason for impeachment. I'm not sure how to work that into the mechanic as suggested.
I'm not sure if this is intentional, but I just went outside my party lines by opposing increasing foreign aid to Israel. My party is Socialist. Unless of course it's outside every party's line, what with the powerful lobby they have.
I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I just had a bill I introduced from Campaign Contributions pass, but I didn't get the additional money.
I introduced it yesterday, and it only just passed today.
Could I make one suggestion? A restart button when you pause. I don't know about everyone else, but if I start off poorly I'd like to be able to just pause and restart without having to go back to the menu. Great game by the way, I'm spending way too much time on it.
After my first few tries I was begging for upgrades, but eventually I got the hang of it. Good game, and it's actually pretty cool how it makes you get better by practicing, not with upgrades.
I've never commented on a game before, but this was so awesome I had to write something. This is a great little game with an amusing characters, an nice concise story, and a wonderful message at the end. I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone. Just beautiful, and my comment just cannot do it justice.
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You both hit the page while I was changing some stuff. It works fine now.