安倍首相、やじを謝罪　「厳に慎む」―衆院予算委

　衆院予算委員会は１７日午前、安倍晋三首相と関係閣僚が出席して集中審議を行った。冒頭、首相は１２日の質疑で立憲民主党の辻元清美幹事長代行に「意味のない質問だよ」とやじを飛ばしたことについて「不規則な発言をしたことをおわびする」と謝罪した。「今後、閣僚席からの不規則発言は厳に慎むよう、首相として身を処していく」とも述べた。
　立憲など主要野党はやじに強く反発し、１３日の予算委は流会となった。自民党の森山裕、立憲の安住淳両国対委員長は１７日の集中審議で首相がおわびすることで合意していた。（2020/02/17-12:25）

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized Monday for his recent yelling at an opposition lawmaker, promising to not make irregular remarks in the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   "I apologize for making the irregular remark," Abe told a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting. "I will act prudently as the prime minister and surely refrain from irregular remarks in the future."
   On Wednesday last week, Abe provoked an angry backlash from the opposition camp by shouting in the Lower House committee that a question by Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan was "unproductive."
   The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the CDPJ later agreed to settle the controversy over Abe's yelling, with his apology at Monday's committee meeting.