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(Eagle News)–For Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, there is no need to convene a bicameral conference committee on Road Board abolition. In the first place, Drilon said in a statement, the Senate “has already taken the position that the bill to abolish the Road Board is already approved by virtue of its adoption of House Bill 7436 on September 12.” “When we adopted the House bill on September 12, there are no more disagreeing provisions..The Senate’s […]
(Eagle News)–For Senator Grace Poe, the Road Board should first be “made to account for the billions of funds it utilized” from the motor vehicle users’ charge before it is abolished. “Ours is a government of accountability. And the car owners who contributed to the MVUC should be given their due course,” she said. According to Poe, the National Treasury should also “be apprised of the total funds that would be transmitted to them.” She […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte wants to abolish the Road Board, the Palace said on Tuesday, Dec. 18. In fact, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte would sign the bill abolishing the graft-tainted body once it reaches his desk. He said President Duterte was also against the release of the P45-billion road user’s tax, which instead, according to Duterte, should be returned to the treasury. “..Let Congress appropriate again for a specific purpose,” Panelo […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Koko Pimentel on Thursday, Sept. 20, called out the House of Representatives for passing a motion that voided a bill aimed at abolishing the Road Board. According to Pimentel, such a move to void House Bill 7436 which the Senate adopted on Sept. 12 was “legally questionable.” In adopting the House bill instead of the Senate’s version, Senate bill 1620, the Senate essentially did away with the need for a bicameral conference to reconcile […]
