Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 04:55:50 +0000
The P3.757 national budget for 2019 would be “pork-free,” Malacañang said on Friday, as Congress is set to pass the budget this afternoon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:01:24 +0000
What “pork” for senators? Senate President Vicente Sotto III asked and said it’s institutional amendments. Sen. Ralph Recto also agrees.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 02:52:12 +0000
The alleged billions worth of “pork” insertions by congressmen and some senators have been retained in the 2019 national budget, Lacson said
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 03:23:33 +0000
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Wednesday backed Senator Panfilo Lacson’s bid to make the 2019 national budget free of “pork.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 05:42:56 +0000
“Let us not preempt the President.”
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 08:07:32 +0000
Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Sunday “thanked” two congressmen who have been criticizing him over the 2019 national budget for enlightening the public on the controversy.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:30:11 +0000
Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos is urging the Department of Agriculture (DA) to suspend the supposed over-importation of pork and chicken meat to allow local raisers to recover their losses.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 02:43:22 +0000
From allies of the former leadership of the House of Representatives, “pork” allocations had been allegedly transferred to lawmakers allied with the incumbent House leadership.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:15:40 +0000
There’s a “strong possibility” that President Duterte and other Cabinet officials knows about “insertions” in the proposed 2019 budget.
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Read moreCredit 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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