TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Cabinet's budget for the "Forward-looking Infrastructure Plan" passed its first reading at the Legislative Yuan today amid contention and chaos. Seven legislative committees including the Finance Committee continued their dayslong review of the Cabinet's infrastructure budget in the morning. Kuomintang (KMT) lawmakers, declaring it "an illegal reading," began tossing water balloons into the air, creating a fright when a balloon struck a light on the ceiling and made it wobble. Over 120 items proposed by lawmakers were read out while KMT lawmakers threw the balloons and fistfuls of flour near Wang's table, calling the infrastructure projects "money pits" and demanding that the bill be returned to the Cabinet and rewritten. Amid the fracas, Wang continued reading the proposals, announcing all 126 items and then declaring the preliminary review of the infrastructure bill complete at 11:42 a.m.

Source: The China Post July 19, 2017 06:33 UTC