Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:33:26 +0000
The Senate on Monday approved on third and final reading the proposed P3.757-trillion national budget for 2019, paving the way for a bicameral conference and the President’s possible signing of the bill by the end of the month.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 06:25:37 +0000
Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has reiterated her call for a P20-billion hike in the proposed 2019 budget of the Department of Agriculture.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:22:14 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Saturday suggested that the bicameral conference committee on the proposed 2019 national budget be made transparent
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 07:21:50 +0000
The salaries of at least 1,000 health workers across Bicol were temporarily put “on hold” by the Department of Health in the province.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:34:43 +0000
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Wednesday urged lawmakers to pass the proposed P3.8-trillion national budget for 2019 as soon as possible or Malacañang would call a special session of Congress to enact the spending bill, cutting their campaign time for the midterm elections in May. The President has authority to call Congress to a special […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:22:43 +0000
Public Works Secretary Mark Villar knew that P75 billion was added to the 2019 budget request submitted by his department to Malacañang and might have been misquoted about the extra funds, according to presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo. Villar was in the Cabinet meeting when Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno presented the national budget proposal, Panelo said […]
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:55:42 +0000
DBM Secretary Benjamin Diokno slammed as “false news” House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr.’s claim of zero funds for BOL plebiscite.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:59:06 +0000
House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. has grilled a local state auditor over transactions of Bulacan-based construction firm.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:23:33 +0000
After a heated debate, senators on Monday agreed to delete P75 billion in additional funding that was allegedly “inserted” into the budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:46:58 +0000
Camarines Sur 2nd District Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr. lashed back at House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday, accusing the latter of pursuing a “bootleg” investigation in the chamber as part of an apparent “pre-election agenda to lay siege to the stalled 2019 General Appropriations Act (GAA) and destabilize the Duterte administration.”
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