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The government is set to spend another P15.8 billion to fight child hunger with school and daycare feeding programs, as more poverty-stricken families are being driven to deprivation by soaring food prices, Makati City Representative Luis Campos Jr., vice chairperson of the House committee on appropriations, said. “We are counting on feeding programs to help […]
Senator Sonny Angara said Congress has enough time left in its legislative calendar to approve the bill extending the validity of certain items of the 2019 national budget. Angara, the chairman of the Committee on Finance, said a hearing would no longer be necessary for Senate Bill 1153, which he filed last November 6, and […]
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a priority measure which seeks to extend the availability of some portions of the 2019 budget until December 31, 2020. With 199 affirmative votes, zero negative votes, and no abstention, the lower chamber adopted House Joint Resolution No. 19 seeking to extend the availability […]
The country cannot afford another delay in the approval of the national budget so both houses of Congress must do everything it can to avoid a repeat of last year’s sorry experience. Senator Sonny Angara, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, said there is reason to be optimistic that the P4.1 trillion national […]
There is a special provision in the proposed 2019 national budget that prohibits the Bureau of Immigration from issuing special work permits to aliens amid the influx of illegal foreign workers in the country, Senator Joel Villanueva said. In an ambush interview following the Senate hearing on the rise of foreign illegal workers in the […]
This will be a long week for legislators, as the House of Representatives (HOR) Committee on Appropriations has released a schedule of sponsorship and floor deliberations showing that the House will be conducting sessions until Friday in order to finish discussions on the P3.757 trillion 2019 national budget. This was confirmed by House Appropriations Committee […]
With budget deliberations in the House of Representatives (HOR) on hold because of clashing views on the cash-based budgeting system being pushed by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), electric cooperative groups on Thursday called on legislators to close ranks behind House Appropriations Committee Chair Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles. According to the electric cooperative […]