The legislative watchdog Citizen Congress Watch (CCW) and a student group at National Taiwan University (NTU) yesterday unveiled the results of their evaluation of the performance of a committee during the current legislative session, singling out two Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators for their good performance.
At a press conference at NTU, about 15 students of the university’s Leadership Program gave KMT legislators Chao Li-yun (趙麗雲) and Chiang Nai-shin (蔣乃辛) praise for being fully prepared for the bills reviewed by the Education and Culture Committee last week.
The students spent two sessions watching video clips of five randomly selected meetings of the committee on the legislature’s video-on-demand (VOD) system and graded the performance of members of the committee.
The students singled out Chao and Chiang as model committee members, but did not highlight any legislators with poor ratings.
Yu Chia-jung (游家蓉), a student in the program, however, said the students agreed that lawmakers usually resorted to “inappropriate methods” during their question-and-answer sessions, such as questioning officials based on unverified reports in the media or raising issues unrelated to bills being reviewed.
CCW chief executive Ho Tsung-hsun (何宗勳) said the organization hoped the evaluation would lead to the students taking more interest in politics, adding that he hoped similar evaluations could also be held in elementary and junior high schools. Ho said CCW would include the students’ feedback in its weekly journal and mail it to legislators.
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