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Rm. N-411, House of Representatives, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
+63 2 931 5497, +63 2 931 5001 local 7370

Press Statements

The request of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to be afforded the right to confront and cross-examine, through her counsel, the impeachment complainant Atty. Lorenzo Gadon and his witnesses is in order and consistent with the Constitution on the rights of the accused or respondent and the Rules of the House on Impeachment Proceedings.

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The House of Representatives failed to fully restore the budget of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) when it cut the CHR’s originally proposed new appropriations of P623.3-M by P114.8-M.

The obliterated amount consisted of P47.040-M for human rights protection; P24.441-M for human rights promotion; P33.392-M for human rights policy advisory; and P10-M for equipment capital outlay.

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The most improvident, cruel and tragic scam that hit the Philippines was the declaration of martial law by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos which he used as a means to amass ill-gotten wealth reportedly amounting to US$10-B.

This Marcos scam has spawned another scam which is the Marcos “legacy” scam which promises from the Marcos hidden wealth P1-M to each participating member of the One Social Family Credit Cooperative which had a recent meeting at UP Los Baños Campus.

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Immediately after the termination of the plenary consideration of the budget for the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on September 12, 2017, then DICT Secretary Rodolfo Salalima, a provincemate from Albay, approached me in the session hall and told me he was resigning because he “could not anymore bear the pressure” on him.

However, he asked me not tell anyone about it presumably not to preempt his actual resignation.

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The news account that Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chair Chito Gascon committed to investigate atrocities perpetrated by non-State actors like terrorists and rebels in order to secure the restoration of the slashed CHR budget is blatantly false news.

Rep. Edcel C. Lagman said that he is certain Gascon neither promised nor undertook to make such investigations which are not within the jurisdiction of the CHR.