Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 03:37:50 +0000
Senator Panfilo Lacson dared President Rodrigo Duterte to veto the alleged “pork” inserted by lawmakers on the 2019 budget.
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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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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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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:35:25 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson advised anti-drug agents to focus on big-time drug suspects and let the police handle the small-time ones.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:40:44 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson found himself battling the Hydra-like pork barrel system
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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 11:46:06 +0000
The House of Representatives is pushing for having the 2019 national budget itemized instead of tackling the request of Senate President Vicente Sotto III for a reenacted budget.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:44:23 +0000
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday threatened to pull out the Senate version of the draft P3.8-trillion spending bill from the deliberations of the bicameral committee
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 07:17:20 +0000
Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday backed the re-enacted budget now being pushed by “frustrated” Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:29:01 +0000
Some senators have introduced “individual amendments” or “insertions” to the proposed budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for 2019 that might be considered pork as spelled out in a Supreme Court decision, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 02:21:21 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — On Senator Panfilo Lacson’s motion, Congress has agreed to remove the funding for dredging, dubbed as the “rich source of corruption” in the national budget. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said the agreement was reached during Monday’s bicameral conference committee meeting on the 2019 national budget. “A major amendment there is that […]
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