The National Business Council (Conep) has called on Congressional legislators to fulfill their role as lawmakers. Manuel Diez Cabral made the comments when asked about the RD$176.9 million the deputies approved for themselves to distribute household goods to their constituents on Mother’s Day. This is the latest scandal affecting the spendthrift legislators. Diez also expressed his support for the approval of the Law of Fiscal Responsibility that is set out in the National Development Strategy Law as a way of controlling wasteful government spending.