Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:07:32 +0000
The Senate and the House of Representatives will meet again in a conference on Friday to discuss and hopefully ratify the 2019 national budget.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:23:42 +0000
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno has at his disposal P740 billion in unspent funds from the last two years, enough to influence May’s midterm elections, Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr., the House appropriations committee chair, said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:05:11 +0000
An exasperated Sen. Panfilo Lacson is counting on President Rodrigo Duterte to make this year’s national budget pork-free, after conceding that legislators who insisted on keeping the draft P3.8-trillion spending bill larded with “insertions” are just “incorrigibly insatiable.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:33:39 +0000
Sen. Loren Legarda on Monday said the Senate-House conference committee had agreed to break the impasse over the P3.8-trillion proposed spending bill for 2019, easing worries that the Duterte administration would have to make do with a reenacted 2018 budget this year.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:24:13 +0000
The prospect of a reenacted budget loomed large on Sunday after the House of Representatives issued an ultimatum to Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to give a report on government savings in 2018 in exchange for the bicameral approval of this year’s spending bill.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:22:49 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Sunday said he might refer the budget deadlock to the Supreme Court after Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s allies accused him of turning a blind eye to other senators’ alleged “pork” in the stalled P3.8-trillion proposed spending bill for 2019.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 09:58:22 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — The bicameral conference committee of Congress have demanded that Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno furnish it with a report on the total unreleased appropriations and unobligated allotments from 2018. “We need that report in order to pass the 2019 budget. We need a clear picture of our spending authority. Congress authorized the extension […]
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:44:45 +0000
Aquino made the statement as the House of Representatives and the Senate tussled over different versions of the proposed budget.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:36:08 +0000
Senators have to explain the P190 billion that they inserted in the proposed 2019 budget in order to break the impasse that has snagged deliberations on the spending bill
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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:46:06 +0000
The House of Representatives is pushing for having the 2019 national budget itemized instead of tackling the request of Senate President Vicente Sotto III for a reenacted budget.
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