🚀 go-pugleaf

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>    July 28, 1996
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>    Last week at the Dewan Rakyat
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>    By Shaila Koshy
>
(snipped)
>      A total of 11 questions were not answered because the MPs were not
 present
>    when their names were called.
>
>      The situation seemed to get progressively worse when, at 4pm, during the
>    debate on the Customs (Amendment) Bill 1996, the bell had to be rung
 because
>    there were not enough MPs in the House. The quorum is 26 for a total of 192
>    MPs.
>
>      The MPs came rushing in from the canteen and the MPs' room to make
 quorum.
>    However, by the end of the day, the House had passed seven Bills.

i wonder how much we're paying these people to minum kopi in the
parliament's canteen ..

~ay~

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