Today the Chamber of Deputies decided not to vote on a bill to recognise the outgoing United States ambassador Hans Hertell.  Reason being that Congess felt he acted more as a businessman than as an ambassador.  Ricardo Taveras of the FNP, government allied party added that Hans Hertell is also being investigated by the US State Department.

Opposition party deputy Mr Jose Gonzalez cautioned that it is not Congress that should recognise his work as an ambassador but that the Foreign Relations Ministry should instead.

The proposal was submitted by the opposition PRD deputy Julio Romero who actually after making his statement drew "boos" from his colleagues whom he accused of being petty for refusing to debate the motion to recognise a representative of the government with whom he said we maintain our main trade relations with and from which we obtain a series of assistance in diverse orders.

As things were getting alittle heated to say the least, Chamber of Deputies president Julio Cesar Valentin decided to try and placate everyone, so he suggested that the Chamber leaves the proposed recognition "on the table" for the time being, which as we all know really means that that is where it will stay gathering dust from now to eternity!