21.   Education Minister Kaoru Yosano told the lower house budget committee that the government intended to start procedures to break up the sect, said Jiji Press.

22.   The official, Keiwa Okuda, is chairman of the house management committee and is charged with deciding whether to accept no-confidence motions.

23.   The two men have also been summoned to give testimony about the scandal in front of the lower house budget committee.

24.   Kazuo Kitagawa, of the main opposition New Frontier Party, made his allegations at a lower house budget committee meeting.

25.   Maeda made the disclosure in an interim report on Aum cases to a lower house committee on judicial affairs, Jiji Press said.

26.   NFP members have taken turns to picket the chamber of the lower house budget committee for the past week to block the passage of the budget.

27.   The lower house budget committee decided on Monday to summon Suzuki to testify as a sworn witness next Monday on the scandals.

28.   The official, Keiwa Okuda, is chairman of the house management committee.