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Hope for Filipino Youths: Lacson to Ensure Funding for Education, Health

Ensuring enough funding for education and health will be one of senatorial aspirant Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson’s priorities should he earn a new mandate in the Senate.

Lacson said this can be done by tracking down less useful and questionable appropriations in the budget, and realigning them to fund these much-needed programs.

“Such appropriations can be put to good use by becoming seed money. In 2016, I questioned an P8.3-billion allocation involving the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’s budget for 2017. I introduced an amendment to remove it. During our caucus in the Senate, we agreed to put the amount in the free tertiary education measure that we knew was about to become a law,” he said.

Related: Pag-Asa para sa Kabataang Pilipino: Lacson, Titiyakin ang Pondo para sa Edukasyon, Kalusugan

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Editorial: ‘Pork’ issue raised anew in search for SUC funds [Manila Bulletin]

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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.

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Editoryal: Libreng tuition sa state colleges [Pilipino Star Ngayon]

Mula sa Pilipino Star Ngayon: Maganda ang panukala ni Lacson na kunin sa pork ang pondo. Kaysa naman kurakutin lang ang pork ng mga mambabatas, sa mga state colleges and universities ito gamitin. Gawin na ito para naman makahinga nang maluwag ang mga magulang na kandakuba na sa pagtatrabaho.

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Panayam ng DZMM | Agosto 9, 2017

Sa panayam ng DZMM, sinagot ni Sen. Lacson ang tanong sa:
– Panukalang manggagaling sa pork barrel ng mambabatas ang pondo para sa libreng matrikula sa SUCs
– May makukunan na pondo para sa libreng matrikula sa SUCs

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On Claims that there is No ‘Pork’ in the 2018 National Budget

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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