Credit 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: besguerra| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:24:01 +0000
“Favored contractors” who prematurely won government contracts by advancing billions of pesos in commissions to public officials now want their money back, Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. said on Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:26:11 +0000
Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. on Sunday accused two Cabinet officials of orchestrating the restoration of P75 billion in pork allegedly inserted by budget officials into the proposed 2019 appropriations law but was realigned by lawmakers to their own projects.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:24:18 +0000
No more budget “insertions” written on table napkins.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:30:04 +0000
Congress ratified the spending bill on Friday, and the next step is for the President to sign it into law.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:50:37 +0000
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno branded as “baseless” the fresh accusation of Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. that he tried to “bribe” the House of Representatives with an amount of P40 billion.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:38:23 +0000
It’s up to President Rodrigo Duterte to purge his P3.8-trillion national budget for 2019 of pork, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Wednesday.
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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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