Rival parties managed to vote on pending bills during today's plenary session.<br />But in many other areas it's still a long and bumpy road ahead, with the clock ticking.<br />Kim Min-ji has the latest from Parliament. <br /> Rival lawmakers had their sleeves rolled up on Tuesday... to make up for a two-week parliamentary standstill.<br />In a plenary session -- they passed more than 60 pending bills,... including ones on improving people's lives and boosting public safety.<br /><br /> Time is of the essence now, since half the month was lost to partisan bickering.<br />Plus, the February session was shortened... in part by the Lunar New Year holiday break... and by the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.<br />As a result, key bills had been put on hold... despite the parties vowing to work for the people when the session kicked off three weeks back.<br /><br /> For the remainder of the month,... the parliament's judiciary committee will need to deliberate and pass bills submitted by relevant standing committees -- something that has to be done before the bills can be put up for a vote during a plenary session.<br />One of them is a special bill related to the military's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in the southwestern city of Gwangju in 1980.<br /> It calls for the creation of an independent fact-finding body to look into the use of force against civilians by the military regime of then-president Chun Doo-hwan.<br />And beyond that, rival lawmakers have still got plenty on their plates.<br /><br /> "Rival parties have managed to avert the disgrace of leaving the February session empty-handed... but NOW the big task at hand is crafting a proposal for amending the Constitution. They'll need to agree on both the specific content of an amendment and the timing of a referendum -- before the government is done with its own version. Kim Min-ji, Arirang News." <br />
