Tag: House-manipulated

Lacson: Arroyo may face falsification raps for signing “House-manipulated” 2019 budget

(Eagle News)—Speaker Gloria Arroyo may be charged for signing the P3.757-trillion budget bill that contains provisions that were not approved by the bicameral conference committee nor ratified by both houses of Congress, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Wednesday, March 13. Lacson was referring to the bill which the House of Representatives printed and transmitted to the Senate but which, according to him, was only a “manipulated” version of the budget bill that has already been […]