Lacson: Arroyo allotted P95B in infra funds to her allies

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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Andaya defends itemized changes in appropriations bill

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 23:23:45 +0000

“[W]hat do senators have to fear in an itemized budget,” Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. asked on Sunday as he sought to turn the tables on the Senate leadership in a still another episode in the long-running congressional row over the 2019 budget bill.

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Senate realigned P75 billion in 2019 budget – Andaya

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:50:23 +0000

Senate realigned P75 billion in 2019 budget – Andaya

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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Andaya shelves bid to probe Diokno over budget insertions

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:40:13 +0000

Andaya shelves bid to probe Diokno over budget insertions

Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr., the House appropriations committee chairman, seems to have backed off, at least temporarily, on his bid to investigate outgoing budget chief Benjamin Diokno over alleged insertions in the 2019 national budget.

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Andaya on Diokno probe: ‘Maybe next Congress’

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:37:05 +0000

THE investigation against incoming Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Gov. Benjamin Diokno will no longer be pursued under this Congress, said a leader at the House of Representatives who actively…READ

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Andaya: Nothing illegal in House move to itemize allocations under DOH budget

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:38:39 +0000

There is nothing illegal in the House of Representative’s move to identify the items under the DOH’s 2019 budget, Rolando Andaya Jr. said Wednesday.

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Lacson: Arroyo’s last-minute tinkering doomed budget

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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Andaya: If cash budgeting legal, why ask House OK?

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:14:45 +0000

Andaya: If cash budgeting legal, why ask House OK?

House appropriations committee chair Rolando Andaya Jr. on Thursday questioned Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno’s insistence that the government could impose cash-based budgeting even after it was deleted in the approved 2019 spending budget.

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DBM: Andaya’s claims serve to ‘destabilize’ administration

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:02:52 +0000

DBM: Andaya’s claims serve to ‘destabilize’ administration

The claims of Camarines Sur Rolando Andaya Jr. that the government failed to pay private companies in 2018 due to a “corrupt system” in two departments was a way to “destabilize” the Duterte administration, the Department of Budget and Management said in a statement issued on Tuesday.

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DPWH list of winning project bidders altered, says Andaya

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:34:55 +0000

Official documents submitted to the House of Representatives investigation of an alleged P75-billion public works scam have been altered

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