It was felt that time was too short for completion of all activities, that the workload was excessive, and too much time was spent travelling, making the clinical sessions rushed.
Listening intently in each session, they rushed the stage to meet the speakers in person and even collected their autographs.
A veritable flotilla of special-interest bills is quietly floating through the Legislature as lawmakers prepare to wrap up for the year, part of the end-of-session rush to pass bills sought by their political allies or campaign donors.
The result has been to make it difficult for Republicans to pass the appropriations bills needed to keep the government operating, leading to an end-of-session rush to cut deals and get out of town, even if it requires using budgetary gimmicks to make the numbers add up.
She fainted early on in that session and was rushed to a Taipei hospital.
At one point, when Mr. Katsumata tried to wrap up a question-and-answer session, angry shareholders rushed toward the stage.
The new legislation, which was signed into law after an all-night parliamentary session, had been rushed through because details of the debt-restructuring plan were leaked on Wednesday.
The rushed session that convened today, 11 days ahead of schedule, came in response to his appointment on Friday of a new national police chief in defiance of warnings from the legislature.
When the camp session ends, you rush in, full of teary hugs and hometown gossip, gather up your sunburned, sleep-deprived child, make sure you've excavated the odd T-shirt and CD wedged behind her bunk, wait as she vows eternal e-mail loyalty to her 17 new best friends and make a quick exit.
But the leaders of the Democratic majority in the Legislature are wary of rushing into special session to cut the budget based on projections of economic data, rather than real numbers.
