Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:23:38 +0000
Senator Vicente Sotto III offered a solution as he defended Budget Secretary Diokno from claims he was behind the P75 billion insertion in the 2019 budget.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:38:55 +0000
Senatorial bets hit the practice of allocating “pork” in the national budget that “led to allegations of rampant corruption in government.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:38:21 +0000
The new bail bid of the chief of staff of former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile has been denied again by the Sandiganbayan.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:59:57 +0000
Malacañang on Tuesday vowed to let Congress do the necessary review on the 2019 national budget amid allegations of billions worth of insertions.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 07:26:46 +0000
Former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and ex-Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas have pointed to the executive department for the infrastructure allocations their respective districts will receive under the proposed 2019 national budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:06:51 +0000
Anti-“pork” advocate Senator Panfilo Lacson heaved a sigh of relief on Tuesday when he found an “unlikely ally” in House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:56:58 +0000
Senator Leila de Lima said the Aquino admin “never resorted to public vilification or character assassination of any of those under investigation.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:49:04 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte wants to hear the explanation of Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on the alleged pork barrel insertions in the proposed 2019 national budget, Malacañang said Monday.
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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: lalos| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:24:47 +0000
Malacañang said Budget Secretary Ben Diokno can explain before the House of Representatives the alleged insertions in 2019 national budget.
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