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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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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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: 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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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:37:11 +0000
The Supreme Court has ordered Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to explain the delay in the release of the fourth and final tranche of salary increases for government workers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 23:26:39 +0000
Defiant to the end, Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday relinquished his post as majority leader of the House of Representatives, ending days of speculation about his place in the administration after a highly public feud with Malacañang over the 2019 spending bill.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:22:14 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Saturday suggested that the bicameral conference committee on the proposed 2019 national budget be made transparent
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:22:43 +0000
Public Works Secretary Mark Villar knew that P75 billion was added to the 2019 budget request submitted by his department to Malacañang and might have been misquoted about the extra funds, according to presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo. Villar was in the Cabinet meeting when Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno presented the national budget proposal, Panelo said […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:23:33 +0000
After a heated debate, senators on Monday agreed to delete P75 billion in additional funding that was allegedly “inserted” into the budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:46:58 +0000
Camarines Sur 2nd District Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr. lashed back at House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday, accusing the latter of pursuing a “bootleg” investigation in the chamber as part of an apparent “pre-election agenda to lay siege to the stalled 2019 General Appropriations Act (GAA) and destabilize the Duterte administration.”
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