Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:22:24 +0000
Malacañang should intervene anew to break the budget impasse and ask the House of Representatives to revert to the original version
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 23:23:55 +0000
The House of Representatives has not withdrawn its version of the 2019 budget, Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said on Tuesday, refuting claims that her chamber has backed down in its monthlong standoff with the Senate.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:22:04 +0000
Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies have decided to recall the House version of the 2019 budget to clear the way for negotiations with the Senate that could end the three-month impasse over the spending bill, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:22:38 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Sunday warned the public against falling for the House leaders’ claim that their decision to itemize the lump-sum allotments in the long-delayed P3.8-trillion budget for 2019 was meant to ensure “transparency.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:50:41 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson labeled as “hypocrisy” the claim of some “talking heads” in the House of Representatives that its alleged post-ratification budget just itemized lump sums for transparency.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:32:06 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte’s intervention on Tuesday night failed to break the monthlong deadlock between the Senate and the House of Representatives
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 23:24:40 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to scrutinize the P3.8-trillion proposed budget for 2019 once it arrives on his desk, giving assurance that he will veto it if it is “illegal.”
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 23:24:09 +0000
Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo unlawfully funneled nearly P95 billion in infrastructure funds to the districts of her allies in the House after Congress had ratified the final version of the P3.8-trillion budget for 2019, Sen. Panfilo Lacson claimed on Sunday.
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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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