Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:16:27 +0000
The budget impasse is now over after the Senate-House conference committee signed and approved Friday the final version of the P3.8-trillion 2019 national budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 06:00:01 +0000
Lawmakers are now expected to break the deadlock over the final version of the P3.8-trillion national budget proposal for 2019.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:05:11 +0000
An exasperated Sen. Panfilo Lacson is counting on President Rodrigo Duterte to make this year’s national budget pork-free, after conceding that legislators who insisted on keeping the draft P3.8-trillion spending bill larded with “insertions” are just “incorrigibly insatiable.”
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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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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 03:07:52 +0000
Senator Ralph Recto admitted introducing own amendments to the budget, including P68 billion worth of “institutional” amendments that are not part of Malacanang’s submission to Congress.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:22:10 +0000
A House deputy minority leader on Friday tried to turn the tables on Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, calling him a “hypocrite” for allegedly throwing a monkey wrench into the bicameral discussions on the proposed P3.8-trillion budget for 2019 by accusing House leaders of allocating P160 million in pork to each lawmaker.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 09:40:34 +0000
Senator Panfilo Lacson has downplayed as “pathetic assertions” a party-list congressman’s denial on “pork” allocations.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 06:02:24 +0000
COOP NATCCO Rep. Anthony Bravo on Friday defended the House of Representatives from Senator Panfilo Lacson’s “pork” allegations.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 03:20:34 +0000
The Sandiganbayan granted the request of Revilla for 20 days to reply to a motion requiring him to return P124.5M in pork barrel funds.
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