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Drilon echoed other senators’ concern over Garbin’s claim his panel was already sitting as a Constituent Assembly (Con-Ass) when congressmen resumed the hearing on proposed amendments to the “restrictive” economic provisions in the Constitution.
“Cong. Garbin is wrong. The congressmen and senators were elected as members of Congress and as legislators to enact ordinary laws, not as members of a constituent assembly to propose amendments to the constitution,” Drilon said in a statement.
Drilon reiterated that in order that the House and the Senate can propose amendments to the Constitution, Congress with the two houses voting separately “must convert itself through a resolution into a constituent assembly.”
The Senate will speed up and prioritize bills postponing the scheduled increase of member contributions to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) this year.
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Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” F. Zubiri
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Zubiri reiterated the need for a separate penitentiary for heinous crime inmates as he called for a “fitting” punishment on Police Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca for killing his neighbors Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio in Paniqui, Tarlac, on Sunday, December 20.
“This Christmas, my simple wish is na-ipasa ng House of Representatives ‘yong bill namin ni Senate President [Vicente] Sotto at ni Sen. [Richard] Gordon na ang pag-establish ng Alcatraz-type prisons for heinous crimes (is for the House of Representatives to pass the filed by Senate President Sotto, Sen. Gordon and myself on the establishment of Alcatraz-type prisons for heinous crimes),” Zubiri said told reporters in a message.