Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Huang Chao-hui, right, argues with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chu Fong-chi, left, during a joint meeting of the legislature's Home and Nations Committee and the Budget and Final Accounts Committee yesterday, at which the Mainland Affairs Council budget was slashed by NT$438 million.Nov 17, 2005

PHOTO: CHANG CHIA-MING, TAIPEI TIMES