Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 23:23:45 +0000
“[W]hat do senators have to fear in an itemized budget,” Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. asked on Sunday as he sought to turn the tables on the Senate leadership in a still another episode in the long-running congressional row over the 2019 budget bill.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:50:23 +0000
The Senate realigned P75 billion in the 2019 national budget after it had already been ratified by Congress, according to Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr., chairman of the House appropriations committee. In a statement issued on Sunday, Andaya bared the alleged “post-bicam realignment” following fresh claims by the Senate against the House of Representatives.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 07:03:17 +0000
The government will have no choice but to use the reenacted budget until August if the House of Representatives insists to push its amendments on the 2019 General Appropriations Act.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 05:22:09 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The senators are free to tell the President which part of the proposed national budget to veto if they feel that it is “constitutionally-infirm and legally-flawed,” House appropriations committee chairman Rolando Andaya said. “If the senators really feel that the budget we have ratified is constitutionally-infirm and legally-flawed, then they can tell […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 23:16:07 +0000
Senators have asked Malacañang officials to help ensure that congressmen does not make unauthorized changes in the government’s spending bill for 2019, according to Senate President Vicente Sotto III.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 12:25:43 +0000
The House of Representatives seemed to have realigned some P79 billion under the ratified 2019 national budget, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Saturday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:40:13 +0000
Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr., the House appropriations committee chairman, seems to have backed off, at least temporarily, on his bid to investigate outgoing budget chief Benjamin Diokno over alleged insertions in the 2019 national budget.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 23:22:53 +0000
The P3.8-trillion national budget for 2019 is now “doomed” after Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo unlawfully realigned hundreds of millions of pesos for health facilities to her “favored” congressmen, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: JAVIER J. ISMAEL| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:14:23 +0000
THE Senate is considering calling for an urgent caucus amid reports that Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and other congressmen allegedly “manipulated” the ratified bicameral conference committee (bicam) report on the 2019…READ
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 05:00:15 +0000
The House of Representatives has allegedly slashed the “pork barrel” allocations of at least 60 congressmen even after the ratification
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