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: Senate stand on budget will restore huge allocations of ex-House execs

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:20:01 +0000

Andaya: Senate stand on budget will restore huge allocations of ex-House execs

Senate’s decision to go back to lump-sum budgeting for the 2019 national budget would restore “huge” allocations of former House leaders.

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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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Palace: Andaya should stop lawyering for DPWH contractors

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:38:35 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – Camarines Sur 1st District Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. should not lawyer for Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) contractors whom he alleged were not paid over P100 billion in 2018 by the government, Malacañang said on Monday.

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Gov’t failed to pay DPWH contractors P100B–Andaya

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 23:29:38 +0000

Gov’t failed to pay DPWH contractors P100B–Andaya

The government failed to pay private companies more than P100 billion in 2018 due to a “corrupt system” that continued to control the payment scheme for public works contracts, according to House appropriations committee chair Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr.

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Panelo: Anyone can go to Supreme Court and question national budget

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 06:28:00 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – Anyone is free to question before the Supreme Court the  2019 national budget if they feel that it violated the high tribunal’s earlier ruling invalidating the pork barrel system, Malacañang said Monday.

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Lacson, Drilon, 3 peers reject pork-ridden spending measure

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 21:30:41 +0000

Senators opposing the P3.8-trillion national budget allegedly stuffed with pork on Friday

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Diokno belies Andaya’s ‘bribery’ claims; says it’s ‘wild, baseless’

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:50:37 +0000

Diokno belies Andaya's 'bribery' claims; says it's 'wild, baseless'

Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno branded as “baseless” the fresh accusation of Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. that he tried to “bribe” the House of Representatives with an amount of P40 billion.

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