Ako Bicol Partylist Representative Alfredo Garbin, Jr. on Wednesday, June 1, expressed belief that President Duterte fully supports the passage into law of the Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 2 which seeks to amend economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution.
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Published June 1, 2021, 5:05 PM
Ignoring the Senate and executive department’s lack of interest, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading the proposed P401-billion Bayanihan to Arise as One Act or Bayanihan 3 on a unanimous voting on Tuesday, June 1.
With 238 House members present voting in the affirmative and zero in the negative House Bill 9411 will now be sent to the Senate for its action.
Questioning constitutionality of the measure, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman registered the lone abstention.
Lagman is the only solon present in the plenary who is not an author of the bill that proposes to distribute an initial P2,000 to all 108 million Filipinos and an additional P10,000 to those who were displaced and suffered financial distress due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Whereâs aid for health workers? Govt asked as Bayanihan 3 chunk benefits military, police
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“Bayanihan 3,” also known as the “
Bayanihan To Arise As One Act,” is the third version of the “Bayanihan” bill, a law that was crafted to specifically address the public health crisis.
“Bayanihan 3” is a stimulus package worth P401 billion that seeks to address the economic and social impact of the pandemic in the country.
It was approved by the House of Representatives on third and final reading on Tuesday.
The measure allocates P54.6 billion for the pension of the military and the police, which was discovered to be the second biggest appropriation.
Published June 1, 2021, 4:53 PM
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday vowed to oppose next year’s budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), reiterating his belief the budget would be used as a huge “campaign kitty” of the Duterte administration for the 2022 elections.
“We should be more vigilant. The 2022 budget is an election budget. We must not allow the budget to be used for election or partisan political activities,” Drilon said in a statement.
Drilon said he believes that the NTF-ELCAC will seek an increase to its budget in the upcoming budget deliberations to give away more funds to different barangays across the country “in an election year.”