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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 ...

By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published January 13, 2021 8:25pm The House Committee on Constitutional Amendments on Wednesday resumed its deliberations on the proposed amendments to the "restrictive" economic provisions to the 1987 Constitution. The said amendments are contained in Resolution of Both Houses No. 2 authored no less than by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco. In resuming the so-called "economic" Charter change (Cha-cha), both Velasco and House panel chair Alfredo Garbin Jr. had one thing in mind: lifting the restrictions in the economic provisions in the Constitution would help the c...