国民投票法案が実質審議入り　野党反対で採決見送り―衆院憲法審

　衆院憲法審査会は２６日、憲法改正に関する国民投票の利便性を高める国民投票法改正案について初の質疑を行った。提出から２年余りを経ての実質審議入り。日本維新の会が採決を求める動議を提出したが、細田博之会長（自民）は立憲民主党などが採決に反対していることを踏まえ、「幹事会で協議する」として応じなかった。
　今国会の会期末は１２月５日。２６日中の採決が見送られたことで、成立は来年の通常国会以降に先送りされる見通しだ。（2020/11/26-12:46）

A commission under the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, began substantive deliberations Thursday on a bill to amend the law on national referendums on constitutional revisions.
   A question-and-answer session was held for the first time on the bill at the Lower House's Commission on the Constitution since it was submitted to the Diet over two years ago. The bill is designed to make it easier for voters to cast ballots in referendums on constitutional amendments.
   During the session, Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) submitted a motion to take a vote on the bill. But Hiroyuki Hosoda, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, who chairs the commission, did not accept it, because the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and other opposition forces are against putting the bill to vote.
   The ongoing extraordinary Diet session is scheduled to end on Dec. 5. The bill's possible enactment is expected to be carried over to next year's regular Diet session, to be convened in January, at the earliest.
   On Thursday, the ruling bloc called for a vote to be taken early on the bill. But Soichiro Okuno of the CDP expressed the party's cautious stance against the move, demanding debates regarding restrictions on television commercials for constitutional revision referendums. Seiken Akamine of the Japanese Communist Party also opposed the ruling bloc's move.