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Lagman: Appropriations Bill A Copycat of Noy's Budget

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                                                            LAGMAN: APPROPRIATIONS BILL

                                                             A COPYCAT OF NOY’S BUDGET

 

          The General Appropriations Bill (GAB) which will be submitted to a vote on third reading is the handiwork of Malacanang, and not the output of the House of Representatives.

         The GAB is a virtual copycat of the President’s National Expenditure Program (NEP) with no substantial amendments adopted from the submissions of House members, except the special provisions on the itemization of the P21-billion Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) and the creation of an oversight committee on the CCT as endorsed by the Minority.

         Whatever changes effected in budgetary allocations were at the instance of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) through a series of errata.

         Unless the Majority in the House would realize that they have abdicated the Congressional power of independently appropriating the national budget, the tyranny of numbers will pass the GAB on third reading even as the Majority will preside upon a self-derogation of the legislative authority over the public purse.

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Link:http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11/08/10/house-approves-2011-budget

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