Via Reuters: Taiwan deputy halts vote by chomping China proposal
Pandemonium broke out in Taiwan’s parliament on Tuesday when deputies attacked a woman colleague for snatching and trying to eat a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in a bid to stop a vote on the issue.Lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) charged towards the podium and protested noisily to prevent the review of an opposition proposal seeking an end to decades-old curbs on direct air and shipping links with China.
Amid the chaos, DPP deputy Wang Shu-hui snatched the written proposal from an opposition legislator and shoved it into her mouth, television news footage showed.
Wang later spat out the document and tore it up after opposition lawmakers failed to get her to cough it up by pulling her hair.
If Congress were this exciting, think of the rating C-Span would get!
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May 31st, 2006 at 12:51 pm
‘I would have passed this bill, but a legislator ate it!’
Taiwan’s legislature is famous for fistfights, but bill-eating is a new one.
The US Congress is boring. zzzzzzzzzz…..
May 31st, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Pass the Soy Sauce
Some people certainly have interesting dietary habits.
June 1st, 2006 at 12:47 am
Eating a bill? Wow . . . and I thought the fillibuster was the worst thing a bill could face . . .
July 23rd, 2006 at 7:27 pm
[...] opposition colleague. Some people certainly have interesting dietary habits. LOL. Hat tip- Dr. Taylor ponders what ratings CSPAN would get if they broadcast these legislators. Open Post- Jo’s Ca [...]