{"id":7083,"date":"2020-11-30T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T03:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7083"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T03:26:03","slug":"dewan-rakyat-to-debate-supply-bill-2021-at-committee-stage-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7083","title":{"rendered":"Dewan Rakyat to debate Supply Bill 2021 at committee stage today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 \u2014After being passed at the policy level, MPs will begin debating the 2021 Supply Bill&nbsp;at the committee stage at&nbsp;the Dewan Rakyat sitting today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s debate will focus on the agencies&nbsp;under the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department and the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the&nbsp;Dewan Rakyat calendar, the debate session will continue for 10 days until Dec 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021 Supply Bill&nbsp;was passed at the policy stage&nbsp;last Thursday by a majority vote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attempts by several MPs\u00a0to initiate bloc voting failed when only 13 MPs stood up, less than\u00a0the required 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-1024x557.jpg\" alt=\"stage\" class=\"wp-image-7084\" width=\"460\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-184x100.jpg 184w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-350x190.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-800x435.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1.jpg 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from that, based on the Order Paper,&nbsp;the setting up of a&nbsp;special committee to combat &#8216;Macau Scam&#8217; syndicate is&nbsp;among issues that would be raised&nbsp;during the questions for oral answers session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;the Finance Minister is expected to table&nbsp;the Temporary Measures&nbsp;for Government Financing (Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020 for the first reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Parliament\u2019s calendar, the third session of the Third Term of the 14th&nbsp;Parliament is for 27 days until Dec 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1906812\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 \u2014After being passed at the policy level, MPs will begin debating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1.jpg",1089,592,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-300x163.jpg",300,163,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-768x417.jpg",640,348,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1-1024x557.jpg",640,348,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1.jpg",1089,592,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1.jpg",1089,592,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1.jpg",1089,592,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1.jpg",1024,557,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5e5e322a3172d48290d37a1ae261528c5fbcad687f2b4-1.jpg",720,391,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7085,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions\/7085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}