Budget Committee Chair’s Neutrality and Conduct Questioned

The Budget Committee is the forum where the budget,

which is the foundation of the state,

is deliberated, and it is one of the most important committees in the Diet.

Precisely for that reason, the Chair of the Budget Committee is required

to uphold an extremely high degree of neutrality and fairness.

One of the principles is that the Chair’s exercise of his or her authority

should be exceptional,

and only after 充分 な 協議 を 尽く した 上 で、

between the ruling and opposition parties,

and then only in cases where, even so, no agreement can be reached, should that

authority be exercised as an unavoidable last resort.

However, with regard to the management of the Budget Committee on this occasion,

we must say that, in light of this principle,

there were serious problems that cannot be overlooked.

Rather than easily going along with a schedule based on the government’s

convenience, the Chair should, when necessary, put the brakes on it,

and steadfastly protect the Diet’s responsibility to conduct deliberations as it

ought to, and surely it is precisely in being that last line of defense that the

Chair’s true entrusted duty lies. Yet unfortunately,

the way the committee was run this time must be said to have been far removed from

that ideal.

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Original transcript (Japanese)

予算委員会は、国家の基本である予算を審議する場であり、 国会の中でも最も重要な委員会の1つであります。 だからこそ、予算委員長には極めて高い 中立性と公正性が求められます。 その原則の1つが、委員長の職権行使は例外的なものであり、

与野党間で十分な協議を尽くした上で、 与野党間で十分な協議を尽くした上で、 なお、合意に至らない場合に限り、 やむを得ず行使されるべきものだという考え方であります。 しかしながら、今回の予算委員会の運営は、

この原則に照らして看過できない重大な問題があったと言わざるを得ません。 政府の都合による日程に安易に迎合するのではなく、 必要であればそれに歯止めをかけ、 国会として果たすべき審議の責任を守り抜く、 その最後の砦となることこそが、委員長に託された本来の職責ではなかったのでしょうか。

しかし残念ながら、今回の委員会運営は、

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