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Diokno welcomes House subpoena as ‘opportunity to clarify budget process’

February 6, 2019 admin 2019 budget, Benjamin Diokno, diokno subpoena, House of Representatives, latest stories, mayvelin u. caraballo, Today's Breaking News

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 02:34:55 +0000

BUDGET Secretary Benjamin Diokno welcomed the subpoena issued against him by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations. “Given these facts and the misconceptions about the (budget) process, we take…READ

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Diokno: No such thing as DBM pork

February 6, 2019 admin 2019 national budget, Benjamin Diokno, DBM, Department of Budget and Management, Headlines, Latest News Stories, Nation, Rolando Andaya Jr.

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:36:15 +0000

There is no such thing as “DBM pork,” Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said on Wednesday

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DBM exec tagged in P75B ‘insertions’ in DPWH budget

February 6, 2019 admin 2019 dpwh budget, 2019 national budget, amenah pangandaman, Benjamin Diokno, Headlines, Latest News Stories, Nation, pork insertions, Rolando Andaya Jr.

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:34:24 +0000

DPWH employees who testified during the resumption of the House of Representatives inquiry into the unrequested funds said Pangandaman summoned them to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM)

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Lacson urges Duterte to veto pork items

February 5, 2019 admin 2019 national budget, Benjamin Diokno, budget insertions, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Headlines, Latest News Stories, line-item veto, Nation, Panfilo Lacson, Pork barrel, pork insertions, Rodrigo Duterte, Rolando Andaya Jr.

Credit 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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Legarda: House, Senate break budget impasse

February 4, 2019 admin 2019 national budget, Benjamin Diokno, budget insertions, Latest News Stories, Loren Legarda, Nation, Panfilo Lacson, pork insertions, Rolando Andaya Jr.

Credit 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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Andaya relents, bicam to pass 2019 budget even without Diokno’s savings report

February 4, 2019 admin 2019 budget, Benjamin Diokno, Latest News Stories, Nation, Philippine news update, Rolando Andaya Jr., savings report

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:47:04 +0000

House appropriations panel chair Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday said they would proceed with approving the 2019 spending bll.

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Reenacted budget looms over pork

February 3, 2019 admin 2019 national budget, Benjamin Diokno, budget insertions, DBM, Headlines, Latest News Stories, Nation, pork insertions, Rolando Andaya Jr.

Credit 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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Bicam presses DBM for report on unreleased 2018 funds

February 3, 2019 admin 2019 national budget, Benjamin Diokno, bicameral conference committee, DBM, Department of Budget and Management, Latest News Stories, Nation, Rolando Andaya Jr.

Credit 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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Sugar leaders decry Diokno plan to liberalize sugar importation

January 30, 2019 admin Agriculture, Benjamin Diokno, import liberation, Latest News Stories, local news, Nation, Philippine news update, sugarcane industry

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 03:59:49 +0000

BACOLOD CITY – Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno does not have a comprehensive view of the sugar industry. This was the reaction of sugar leaders to Diokno’s statement on Wednesday, January 30, that while the planned liberalization of sugar imports would negatively affect local producers, this would benefit a greater number of consumers. “There are more […]

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House panel ready to cite budget chief for contempt

January 29, 2019 admin 2019 national budget, Benjamin Diokno, budget insertions, DBM, Headlines, Latest News Stories, Nation, Rolando Andaya Jr.

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:25:20 +0000

Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. on Tuesday threatened to bring the House of Representatives down if Congress would be forced to pass the proposed 2019 national budget unchecked, as hostilities between lawmakers and budget officials escalated.

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