"Wow, okay, this guy can't answer a very basic question, anyone else want to have a shot or should we just vote on ending all enforcement of travel passes now?"

Ohhh no.

"In favor, myself." They're bad for business.

"In favor." 

"Sure, why not."

"In favor."

"I am in favor in principle but I should like a particular phrasing to bring to the floor." Which was in theory what they were doing here.

"This committee calls for a prompt end to all attempts to consult or check travel passes for movement within the borders of Cheliax, enabling free visitation and migration for all its people and saving the state the associated costs of staffing checkpoints."

Josep carefully writes this down. 

"In favor."

"So now anyone looking for bandits will need to search the entire country, and the army will never have any time to spare on anything else. Against, and I would be happy to explain why to anyone who is endowed with the capacity to reason."

"That's a pass! I'll take it to the floor tomorrow unless somebody who can read wants to do it."

The money that gets saved on paying off the guards at every checkpoint and border, and making sure their baron or lord does not get offended by getting offered less than his neighbors, is more than sufficient to hire guards. Which you have to do anyway, since the checkpoints can in fact be bribed by the bandits just as well as by honest merchants. 

The sailor is being insufferable though. "I will do it if you wish. It would not be well for the version we present to the floor to differ from the version we voted on."

"I'm also willing to do it." 

Though Jofre seemed better at actually making things happen. She guesses she was being too unwilling to be rude to the one person who was talking in circles? 

He was not talking in circles at all and he is offended by these idiots who couldn't understand the basic concept that small areas are smaller than big ones.