何宗勳の日誌

公民監督國會聯盟執行長何宗勳（左）、副執行長高茹萍（中）及台灣和平草根聯盟執行長陳建甫（右）昨日召開記者會，針對這個會期立法院的表現作出評比，並選出「黑」這個字作為二○○八年立法院的代表字。 （記者王敏為攝）

〔記者曾韋禎／台北報導〕公民監督國會聯盟昨天召開記者會，檢視立法院第二會期的成果，質疑國民黨立委在政策表達上處於弱勢，民進黨團也無法作有效監督，兩黨整體表現都不佳。

公督盟執行長何宗勳表示，立法院過去一年的新聞，除了隨選視訊系統的開放外，都不是正面新聞，所以去年立院的代表字是「黑」。而立法院仍依往例，在會期末積案如山，光總預算案就重達十公斤、厚達二十一公分，結果立法院竟想用短短三天審查結束，可見其輕率。

何宗勳指出，公督盟將邀請學者專家、公民顧問、媒體代表、公民代表組成評鑑小組，評鑑本會期的立委表現，本次評鑑會更深入評鑑立委的提案品質，並利用新上路的隨選視訊系統觀察立委發言內容，各立委對陽光法案的態度也會是評鑑重點項目。評鑑結果將於三月一日公布。

▓Watchdog criticizes legislature for delayed review

By Loa Iok-sin
STAFF REPORTER
Thursday, Jan 15, 2009, Page 3
Standing behind a 21cm stack of more than 2,000 legislative proposals weighing 15kg, Citizen Congress Watch (CCW) executive director Ho Tsung-hsun (何宗勳) criticized the legislature yesterday for delaying review of the proposals until the last three days of this legislative session.

“Suppose the lawmakers take exactly 10 minutes to review each proposal in this pile of papers in front of me. It would take them 19 sleepless days to finish reviewing all of them, but they’re trying to do it within three days” Ho said at a news conference at the group’s office yesterday.

While the legislature had close to five months between the start of the session in September and the end of the session on Tuesday to review bills and central government budgets for the next fiscal year, it waited until the last three days to begin the process.

“[The lawmakers] are certainly inefficient, unprofessional and lazy,” Ho said.

Chen Chien-fu (陳建甫), a CCW board member, accused the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) of not serving as a watchdog for the public.

“With an absolute majority, the KMT passes everything that the government proposes — this is not what their job is about,” Chen said. “As lawmakers belonging to the ruling party, they should be very careful about proposals and bills submitted by the government.”

Ho, on the other hand, thinks that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is not working hard enough as opposition.

“The DPP is a minority, but this is no excuse,” Ho said at the news conference. “If they went after inappropriate legislative proposals like they did [former KMT legislator] Diane Lee’s [李慶安] dual citizenship case, things would have been a lot better, and they would have won applause from the public.”