Solon seeks more budget for agri dep’t
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee appealed to the House leadership to provide an additional P521 million in the budget ...
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Arroyo resigns as appropriations vice chairman
Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel Arroyo on Wednesday clarified he was not axed from his position as vice chair of the ...
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House committee starts hearings on 2021 national budget
The House of Representatives’ committee on appropriations will begin today, Sept. 4, its first set of budget hearings on the ...
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‘No conditional signing of 2019 national budget’
The chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations on Wednesday said Senate President Vicente Sotto III was “ill-advised ...
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House backs Rody’s veto of ‘insertions,’ pork in ‘19 budget
The chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations on Wednesday backed the call on President Rodrigo Duterte to ...
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No Traffic
By Alfred Vargas Traffic. It is part of every conversation I encounter each day whether with constituents or friends, and ...
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House begins scrutiny of budget bill
THE committee on appropriations at the House of Representatives will begin today deliberations of the Duterte administration’s first national budget ...
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