Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:21:25 +0000
The registration for and the release of identification cards under the Philippine Identification System will start in September.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:26:45 +0000
The Senate will not allow Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies in the House of Representatives to make any modification to the final version of the P3.8-trillion proposed budget for 2019 that Congress ratified on Feb. 8, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:02:51 +0000
Congressional leaders failed to reach a consensus on the 2019 national budget even after meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang on Tuesday night.
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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: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:50:23 +0000
The Senate realigned P75 billion in the 2019 national budget after it had already been ratified by Congress, according to Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr., chairman of the House appropriations committee. In a statement issued on Sunday, Andaya bared the alleged “post-bicam realignment” following fresh claims by the Senate against the House of Representatives.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 06:19:53 +0000
OUTGOING Budget secretary Benjamin Diokno on Wednesday hopes that his successor will neither be a “politician” nor “an ex-politician” and is considering recommending a “technocrat” for the job. In his…READ
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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: JAVIER J. ISMAEL| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:14:23 +0000
THE Senate is considering calling for an urgent caucus amid reports that Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and other congressmen allegedly “manipulated” the ratified bicameral conference committee (bicam) report on the 2019…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 21:32:45 +0000
In the last few months of her reign as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has embarked on a “sentimental journey” around the country, her office said on Sunday.
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