IN record time, the Senate on Monday approved on third and final reading the P 3.35-trillion proposed national budget for 2017, with 20 affirmative votes, no negative vote and no abstention. This was the earliest time the Senate had passed its version of the national budget in recent years. Senator Loren Legarda, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance, said the Senate version of the 2017 national budget aimed to deliver the changes Filipinos want, […]