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Article: State Duma Fails to Approve 1998 Budget in Second
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 24, 1997
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Russia's State Duma, lower house of Parliament, on Wednesday
failed to approve in second reading the federal budget bill for
1998,
according to the Itar-Tass news agency.
After three rounds of voting the document was short of just one
one vote to be passed. A total of 225 lawmakers voted for, while 226
voted against.
Numerous amendments were made to the draft in the course of
debate
on the second reading. Speaker of the State Duma Gennady Seleznyov
said that the outcome was not politically motivated, simply "a lot
of
amendments were turned down during the debate."
Acting chairman of the Budget Committee Alexander Zhukov said the
trilateral commission of the government and both houses of ...