Palace: Duterte reviewing 2019 budget with ‘utmost care;’ won’t sign anything unconstitutional 

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 06:24:09 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte is “exercising utmost care” in reviewing the 2019 national budget to make sure he would not sign anything

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Sotto: A reenacted budget will erase all ‘pork’

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:52:09 +0000

Sotto: A reenacted budget will erase all ‘pork’

he President Rodrigo Duterte will have Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto’s support should the Chief Executive decides to veto the budget.

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BREAKING: Duterte threatens to veto entire 2019 national budget 

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:23:54 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday threatened to veto the entire P3.757 trillion national budget for 2019.

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Sotto to seek Duterte’s veto of entire 2019 budget bill if…

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:30:19 +0000

Sotto to seek Duterte's veto of entire 2019 budget bill if...

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Vicente  Sotto III is ready to ask President Rodrigo Duterte to veto the entire 2019 General Appropriations BIll (GAB) if indeed the Senate also made realignments even after it was ratified by Congress.

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Andaya downplays Sotto’s ‘strong reservations’ on 2019 budget bill

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 04:47:57 +0000

Andaya downplays Sotto's 'strong reservations' on 2019 budget bill

House appropriations committee chair Rolando Andaya Jr. downplayed Wednesday Senate President Vicente Sotto III’s “strong reservations”

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Andaya: Senators free to tell Duterte to veto portions of 2019 budget

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 05:22:09 +0000

Andaya: Senators free to tell Duterte to veto portions of 2019 budget

MANILA, Philippines — The senators are free to tell the President which part of the proposed national budget to veto if they feel that it is “constitutionally-infirm and legally-flawed,” House appropriations committee chairman Rolando Andaya said. “If the senators really feel that the budget we have ratified is constitutionally-infirm and legally-flawed, then they can tell […]

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Bong Go backs veto of bill vs. corporal punishment, cites parents’ rights

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:38:49 +0000

Bong Go backs veto of bill vs. corporal punishment, cites parents' rights

Former Special Assistant to the President and 2019 senatorial aspirant Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go backed the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to veto the proposed law promoting positive and non-violent discipline for children.

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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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