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(Eagle News)—House appropriations chair Rolando Andaya Jr. on Wednesday, March 27, said the national budget for 2019, “once” signed into law, will “pass not only the test of constitutionality and legality but also of transparency and accountability.” Andaya made the statement a day after Senate President Tito Sotto signed the budget bill enrolled by the House but “with reservations,” noting what senators have said were the “unconstitutional alignments” made by the House in the version […]
(Eagle News)–The Senate and the House of Representatives contingents in charge of threshing out the issues in the proposed national budget met on Monday, March 25, with House appropriations chair Rolando Andaya Jr. initially describing the atmosphere as “positive, very friendly.” The meeting between the House’s Andaya, San Juan City Rep. Ronaldo Zamora and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, and the Senate’s Loren Legarda, finance committee chair; Panfilo Lacson; and Gregorio Honasan II took place after a […]
(Eagle News)—The House of Representatives has officially withdrawn its version of the 2019 General Appropriations bill which it transmitted to the Senate for approval, Senate President Tito Sotto said. The withdrawal of the enrolled bill assailed by the Senate came after House appropriations chair Rolando Andaya said this was to be done in line with Speaker Gloria Arroyo’s directive “to allow a last-ditch effort to break the budget impasse.” Andaya, however, reiterated the House “did […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Tito Sotto on Tuesday, March 19, said the Senate will no longer agree to a meeting with the House of Representatives on the proposed national budget. Sotto made the statement as he expressed “confusion” over the conflicting statements from congressmen on the real status of the budget bill enrolled by the House of Representatives. Rep. Rolando Zamora, who was tasked by congressmen to deal with senators on the issue, had […]
(Eagle News)–The “dizzying pork” has now caused a “budget impasse” in the House of Representatives, which has failed to recall the budget bill it transmitted to the Senate for signature, Senator Panfilo Lacson said. “Just when the stalemate between the Senate and the House is about to end..Meantime, we wait ” Lacson said in a Tweet. Lacson was referring to the deadlock between the two houses of Congress, following the senator’s accusations the Lower House […]
(Eagle News)–It is the Senate that is blocking the passage of the 2019 national budget, and not Speaker Gloria Arroyo, House majority leader Fredenil Castro said on Sunday, March 16. According to Castro, in the first place, Arroyo, who, “since then up to now has been an ally of President Rodrigo Duterte,” already signed the budget bill the other week. “Pirma na lang ni [Senate President] Tito Sotto ang wala at nagmamatigas siya na hindi […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday, March 15, said some members of the House of Representatives were only “confusing the public” with the term they used to describe what they did to the proposed national budget already ratified by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. “There is a whale of a difference between itemization and realignments of what have been approved by the joint bicameral conference committee and ratified in plenary […]
(Eagle News)—House appropriations chair Rolando Andaya Jr. maintained on Thursday, March 14, that the House of Representatives would not accept the “lump-sum” version of the proposed national budget even if it has already been ratified by both chambers of Congress, but at the same time welcomed “any effort” to break the Senate-House impasse. According to Andaya, the House was “steadfast in its mission of itemizing all lump-sum funds in the 2019 General Appropriations Act,” after […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Thursday, March 14, said those accusing Speaker Gloria Arroyo of falsification should just file a case against her. “Kung sinasabi mong unconstitutional, di ba it behooves them to file the appropriate charges against whomsoever has committed any violation of any law,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. Senator Panfilo Lacson had made the accusations against Arroyo for signing the proposed national budget tweaked by the House of Representatives even after its […]
(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 […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday, March 13, called on the Senate and the House of Representatives to break the budget impasse and submit an appropriations law it said would “aid this government better, the lives (of Filipinos) and help (the) country move forward.” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement after the leaders of both houses of Congress met with President Rodrigo Duterte to discuss the budget issues. Senate majority leader Juan Miguel […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, March 11, said he would not sign an “illegal document,” following Senator Panfilo Lacson’s allegations the House of Representatives manipulated the proposed national budget even after it was ratified by both houses of Congress. Duterte made the remark as he railed against what he said were the bad effects of a continued use of a reenacted budget at an event in the Palace. “Magkaroon tayo ng slide sa GDP […]
