People Power Party Finalizes Seven-Member Allocation for Special Committee

As the proposal to form a special committee to handle the Special Act on Investment in the United States passed the plenary session of the National Assembly on the 9th, the People Power Party finalized the list of committee members, including the committee chair, Assemblyman Kim Sanghoon.


The People Power Party announced on this day that it had formed a total of seven members for the special committee on the Special Act on Investment in the United States (one chair and six members).


The agenda item titled "Establishment of a Special Committee for the Passage of the Special Act on Investment in the U.S." was adopted at the plenary session of the National Assembly held on the 9th.

The agenda item titled "Establishment of a Special Committee for the Passage of the Special Act on Investment in the U.S." was adopted at the plenary session of the National Assembly held on the 9th.

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The People Power Party selected Assemblyman Kim, a four-term senior lawmaker serving on the National Policy Committee, as chair of the special committee. Assemblyman Park Sooyoung, the opposition secretary on the Strategy and Finance Committee, will serve as the special committee’s secretary. The other five members allocated to the People Power Party are Assemblymen Kang Minguk, Kang Seungkyu, Kang Myunggoo, Park Sangwoong, and Park Sunghoon.


The People Power Party’s Floor Administration Bureau explained, “To enable in-depth discussions on the Special Act on Investment in the United States, the committee was formed mainly with lawmakers from the National Policy Committee, the Strategy and Finance Committee, and the Trade, Industry, Energy, SMEs and Startups Committee, in accordance with an agreement between the ruling and opposition parties,” adding, “Given the urgency, we promptly submitted the list of special committee members to the National Assembly Secretariat.”



Earlier in the afternoon, the ruling and opposition parties handled the proposal to form the special committee at the plenary session of the National Assembly. The special committee will operate for one month, until March 9. Immediately after the bill was approved, National Assembly Speaker Woo Wonshik requested, “I ask that you hold intensive discussions so that it will be possible to pass the bill in February if at all possible.”


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