One week into the winter session of Parliament, with no legislative business transacted - so what's new? Even the hysteria about this issue now has a ring of deja vu. Some young Members of Parliament acknowledge the public resentment with embarrassment and earnestly debate procedural mechanisms, such as increasing the parliamentary working days per year, for ensuring that all parliamentary time, session after session, is not lost. Others conscientiously propose pay-cuts for their tribe as expiation.