11.   Amidst the melee, Local Development Minister Keshav Lal Shrestha presented the Bill and the ruling lawmakers approved it in a voice vote.

12.   Broadcasts over state radio throughout the morning urged ruling party lawmakers to attend the parliament session to ensure they could carry a vote on the bill.

13.   Chen Peng-chi, a ruling Nationalist Party lawmaker, asked in parliament.

14.   Chavez recently claimed that a recorded telephone conversation released by ruling party lawmakers showed that Perez is conspiring to destabilize the government.

15.   Despite the lack of opposition, the Parliament is operating under new rules that allow ruling party lawmakers to dissent from the party line on certain issues.

16.   Earlier, ruling party lawmaker Tendai Mberi accused party leaders of arrogance and of trying to muzzle debate on the tax hikes.

17.   Former ruling party lawmaker Kim Han-kyu became minister of government administration.

18.   House Speaker Robinson Nabulyato, described by The Post as a grandmother with skirts who protected ruling party lawmakers, ordered their indefinite detention for contempt of parliament.

19.   His relatively new party, the Democrats, who also include former ruling party lawmakers, made key advances in the last election, held in the summer.

20.   In fact, many of the documents are about alleged financial and other wrongdoing by ruling party lawmakers.