Ang tama ay IPAGLABAN. Ang mali ay LABANAN.
In an interiew on DZMM, Sen. Lacson answered questions on:
– Restoring the CHR’s slashed budget
– Postponement of barangay/SK elections
– Senate committees as collegial bodies
– Corruption in the BOC
Quotes from the interview… Continue reading “Interview on DZMM | Sept. 13, 2017”
678M CHR budget reduced to 1K but House version of 2018 nat'l budget stays at 3.767T. It's interesting to find out how the 677M was chopped.
— PING LACSON (@iampinglacson) September 12, 2017
Continue reading “#PingTweets: On the slashing of the Commission on Human Rights’ budget”
From Manila Bulletin: Senator Lacson never accepted his own allotment – it was P200 million for senators and P70 million for congressman – in the old days of PDAF. Some of his colleagues in Congress today may not be ready to carry on without their pork in its new guise and may insist on the “SOP” devised by DBM. Then they must find, somewhere else in the bowels of the appropriation bill, the P25 billion needed for the new program of free college education.
Continue reading “Editorial: ‘Pork’ issue raised anew in search for SUC funds [Manila Bulletin]”
That’s what the Department of Budget and Management and the House appropriations committee always say before, during and after our budget deliberations.
However, how do they explain:
1) the big lump sums in several agencies like DPWH, DepEd, DA, etc;
2) why legislators in both houses of Congress are being asked to submit lists of their projects just before the period of amendments of the appropriations bill or even before that;
3) the billboards in some jurisdictions/districts where some congressmen boldly claim that ongoing projects are theirs;
4) how would they account or explain the PHP8.3 billion that we discovered and realigned to fund the free tuition of students in state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the 2017 General Appropriations Act?
Let’s be honest to our people and to ourselves.
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It only shows where President Duterte’s heart really is. Obviously, he went against the advice of his economic managers.
For one, I know there’s money in the national budget to fund the free tuition law. As what the Senate had collectively accomplished under the 2017 GAA, we managed to realign P8.3 billion from the pork allocations of congressmen to SUCs through the Commission on Higher Education.
That is how we intend to do it again under the proposed 2018 budget.
God bless the Philippines and its deserving students who can’t afford higher education.
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