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Sunday, 24 August 2008 11:33 |
Albay Representative Edcel Lagman has resigned his chairmanship of the influential House committee on appropriations just days before Malacañang submits to Congress its national expenditure program for next year.
In a letter dated August 22, 2008, Lagman told Speaker Prospero Nograles that he was quitting the top post of the House budget panel “to afford me more time to pursue my advocacy for the enactment of progressive and comprehensive reproductive health laws.”
Lagman also said he wanted to honor the term-sharing agreement brokered by former Speaker Jose de Venecia between him and Quirino Representative Junie Cua, the current senior vice chair of the appropriations committee.
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 00:00 |
 Malacanang has said that the president does not intend to stay beyond 2010, but fears of a possible term extension have resurfaced, no thanks to the aborted Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the government.
In today's state luncheon with Swiss President Pascal Couchepin, that suspicion only grew stronger when the president admitted that she wants to push for federalism.
"I advocate federalism as a way to gain lasting peace in Mindanao," said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
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Monday, 11 August 2008 14:16 |
 Opposition Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Monday bared that the Office of the Ombudsman is investigating him in what he said was the start of a lifestly check and the renewed drive to link him to the murder of a public relations executive nearly 10 years ago.
In his letter to Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, Lacson made public the not-so-discreet investigation being conducted by some Ombudsman officials against him.
ABS-CBN News has learned acting director Joselito Fangon of the Ombudsman's graft investigating bureau has subpoenaed Lacson's personal and public records, among them his Statement of Assets and Liabilities from 2001-2004 and 2007 and certificate of compensation for the same period.
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 14:34 |
Isabela Gov. Grace Padaca and a Laguna-based microfinancing organization are among the eight winners of the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize.
Padaca, 44, won the Magsaysay Award for Government Service for "empowering Isabela voters to reclaim their democratic right to elect leaders of their own choosing, and to contribute as full partners in their own development.”
Padaca, a former commentator on radio station Bombo Radyo in Cauyan, Isabela, toppled a political dynasty in her province after winning the gubernatorial elections in 2004 and again in 2007. During her childhood, she suffered from polio, which has forced her to walk with crutches for most of her life.
She recently teamed up with Pampanga Governor Eddie Panlilio, Naga City Mayor Jesse Robredo, and Mayor Sonia Lorenzo of San Isidro, Nueva Ecija to launch "Kaya Natin", a group that seeks to recruit principled local government officials to change the country’s deteriorating political situation.
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 14:50 |
 A socio-political analyst has described President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's 8th State of the Nation Address (SONA) as a "denial" of the gravity of the current national crisis.
"It's [SONA] a mirror of the denial of GMA of the gravity and seriousness of the national crisis," Prof. Randolph David of the UP Sociology Department told ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) Monday after listening to the SONA.
David said Arroyo's examples of a few Filipinos who were earning more under her administration showed that she does not understand the severity of poverty. "She praised the higher income of the jeepney driver, the welder, the butanding watcher. Is that the whole country?."
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