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(Senate PRIB / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) 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 Hous...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Alexis Nuevaespaña/ Senate PRIB / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Sotto on Wednesday questioned how some members of the House of Representatives could claim such when the 18th Congress has yet to resume sessions. “Huh! How? They are yet to convene on Monday the 18th. How can they sit as Con-Ass? Somebody’s got it wrong!” he told the Manila Bulletin in a text message when asked to comment on the development. “How can you convert into a Constituent Assembly when you have not convened yet in plenary?” “He is wrong,” he said of Garbin. According ...