Korean and American Politics (Korean Times, KOREA)

Well, it seems that the Korean National Assembly is back to work again. Prior to this it appeared that the governing Grand National Party (GNP) seemed to have taken a hint from the U.S. House of Representatives during the Bush administration.

The first time they seemed to copy the American republicans was when they attempted to impeach then President Roh Moo-hyun in a similar fashion to what the U.S. Congress tried to do to Bill Clinton after the Lewinsky affair.

With the election of George W. Bush in 2000, and with Republican control of the House of Representatives, the Republican U.S. Congress attempted to ramrod its own legislative measures through, by excluding democrats from committee meetings and combining smaller bills into huge ``omnibus" bills with no chance for debate or discussion, let alone giving the members of Congress time to read the entire bill or even any portion of it.

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