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Controversial expense bill passed The Diet on June 29 enacted a revision to the Political Funds Control Law aimed at keeping better tabs on how lawmakers use their funds, though critics charge the legislation is riddled with loop-holes and will not result in increased transparency. The Upper House approved the bill requiring lawmakers' fund management bodies to report expenditures greater than ¥50,000 and attach a receipt. The bill had cleared the Lower House earlier in June. Opposition lawmakers have slammed the bill, crafted by the governing bloc, calling the revision pointless because it targets only fund management groups. Though politicians are allowed one fund management body, they can have an unlimited number of support groups.
The Japan Times Weekly: July 7, 2007 |
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