予算案、午後に衆院通過

　２０２０年度予算案は２８日午後の衆院本会議で採決され、自民、公明両党などの賛成多数で可決、参院に送付される。憲法の衆院優越規定により、予算案は参院送付から３０日後に自然成立するため、年度内成立が確実になる。
　これに先立つ２８日午前、衆院予算委員会は安倍晋三首相と全閣僚が出席して予算案に関する締めくくり質疑を実施。質疑後に予算案は採決され、与党の賛成多数で可決された。

　立憲民主党など主要野党は、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大への対策費を拡充する予算案の組み替え動議を提出したが、否決された。（2020/02/28-12:26）

Japan's House of Representatives is expected to approve the government's fiscal 2020 draft budget on Friday afternoon, after it cleared a Lower House panel in the morning.
   The draft will be passed by majority vote with support mainly from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, at the plenary meeting of the Lower House.
   The budget will automatically be enacted in 30 days, before the start of the new fiscal year on April 1, regardless of related proceedings in the House of Councillors, the upper chamber, due to the lower chamber's constitutional superiority.
   The draft budget was approved at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday morning with support from the ruling bloc. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and all members of his cabinet, who took questions to wrap up deliberations on the bill.
   Major opposition parties including the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan submitted a motion at the meeting to enlarge funds for measures against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, but it was voted down.