Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:25:34 +0000
How did a single contractor bag 30 government projects worth billions of pesos before Congress could even approve the national budget for 2019?
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:24:34 +0000
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Monday defended the “prerogative” of members of Congress to realign funds for their pet projects in the proposed P3.8-trillion national budget amid allegations of last-minute insertions in the spending bill.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:30:08 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has named Luli Arroyo-Bernas, daughter of Speaker Gloria Arroyo, as chair of the National Museum board of trustees.
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Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:40:01 +0000
“There are no insertions.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 09:43:10 +0000
House representatives whose districts got pork insertions have one common denominator: They’re all close to Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:24:06 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson said he would spare no one in his plan to remove or reduce what he believed were pork barrel insertions in the proposed P3.757-trillion national budget for 2019
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:21:00 +0000
The House of Representatives more than doubled the allocation for assistance to local government units (Algu) to P16 billion in the proposed budget for 2019, which Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson questioned as it was done without consultation with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:20:56 +0000
Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should justify the realignments in the proposed 2019 national budget that Senator Panfilo Lacson
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The draft charter proposed by House Speaker Gloria-Macapagal Arroyo and her allies which excluded the Vice President as the President’s successor during the transition is “absurd and unjustifiable,” Sen. Risa Hontiveros said on Friday.
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The move of the House constitutional amendments panel to skip the Vice President as President Rodrigo Duterte’s successor during the transition period towards a federal form of government was done to prevent “instability.”
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