(MANILA BULLETIN) The House Committee on Appropriations will formally begin to tackle the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) on Thursday, Aug. 10 when it hosts the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) for a briefing on the 2024 spending...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co says he somewhat regrets giving into the Department of Information and Communications Technology's (DICT) request for additional funding for the National Broadband Program. Co...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co is supporting the House leadership's push to pass the Marcos administration’s 13 remaining priority measures in his capacity as House Committee on Appropriations chairman. Co, in a statement Tuesday, May 9, said: "We...
The powerful House Committee on Appropriations has approved, subject to amendments and style, the unnumbered substitute bill that would digitalize the delivery of government services. (Glenn Carstens Peters/ Unsplash) Chaired by Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Elizaldy Co, the House panel okayed...
The powerful House Committee on Appropriations, which handles and approves the country’s national budget, has approved the budget provisions of the substitute bill, subject to amendments, that would create a National Citizens Service Training Program (NCST) in all public and private tertiary...
Did Davao City 3rd district Rep. Isidro Ungab just secure the chairmanship of the powerful House Appropriations Committee? From left to right: Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez, Vice President Sara Duterte, and Davao City 3rd district Rep. Isidro Ungab (Facebook) Such question was left on...
Unless Congress gets back the power of the purse, Filipinos may again expect lack of transparency and abbreviated deliberations resulting from the railroaded passage of the national budget. House of Representatives plenary House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate aired...
House Deputy Speaker Lito Atienza on Monday, Sept. 13 threatened to block the approval of the budget of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) after he was unable to ask questions during the Lower House’s briefings on the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022....
The hundreds of billions of pesos spent by government for massive procurement of COVID-19 vaccines will not escape the prying eyes of auditors of the Commission on Audit (COA) notwithstanding the non-disclosure provisions of contracts that cover the purchases. Audit cartoons COA Chairman Michael...
The House Committee on Appropriations quickly terminated on Friday, September 3, its deliberations on the P8.18-billion proposed 2022 budget of the Office of the President (OP) -- a move objected and questioned by opposition lawmakers. President Duterte (Malacañang photo) The committee was only...
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Wednesday, Sept. 1 disclosed that a “confluence of many events” triggered the crashes of the C-130 cargo plane and S-70i Black Hawk helicopter that killed a total of 59 people. C-130 crash Lorenzana said the official report of the Philippine Air Force probe...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has welcomed the House Committee on Appropriations’ passage of a substitute bill seeking to address the disparity in research and development (R&D) funding in the country’s regions and the lack of R&D in the private sector. (MANILA...
