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==Alcover: They’re shameless== | |||
*Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/national/20610-alcover-theyre-shameless | |||
*By: Ryan Ponce Pacpaco | |||
*''December 31, 2011'' | |||
“THEY said they accepted because they want to give Christmas presents to their constituents. They’re shameless,” ANAD party list Rep. Pastor Alcover was quoted as saying. | |||
Alcover also said that Budget Sec. Florencio “Butch” Abad released P800 million in Priority Development Assistant Fund (PDAF) to his district in Batanes which has only 10,000 voters. | |||
This prompted Speaker Feliciano “Sonny” Belmonte Jr. to make a vow of spearheading the filing of a complaint before the House committee on ethics against Alcover. | |||
“That is absolutely false. We can file a case before the House ethics committee,” Belmonte stressed, adding that Alcover has been ruining the institution for issuing blatant lies. | |||
Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone, Biliran Rep. Roger Espina, Catanduanes Rep. Cesar Sarmiento and Bohol Rep. Rene Relampagos echoed Belmonte’s position, saying the House committee on ethics chaired by Bohol Rep. Erico Aumentado should investigate Alcover “for making false accusations and irresponsible statements that put Congress as an institution and my colleagues in a bad light.” | |||
“That is totally untrue and ridiculous,” they said. “The Speaker (Belmonte) did not commit nor promise anything to those who will sign the impeachment complaint.” | |||
“We read the complaint before we signed because we had an electronic copy. We signed it on our own volition and based on our belief on P-Noy’s campaign against corruption,” they added. | |||
Although there were allegations that the impeachment of Corona was done in haste, Tupas said that the seeming sudden move had been hatched since September 2010. | |||
Tupas explained that it came after the Higher Court (SC) issued a status quo ante order preventing the House committee on justice from hearing the impeachment complaint against then Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas Gutierrez. | |||
He denied that the 188 signatures in the impeachment complaint which resulted to automatic transmittal to the Senate of eight Articles of Impeachment against Corona was a product of an overnight work. | |||
“After we were prevented from doing our constitutional duty, we decided to start gathering information against the Chief Justice. Our discreet research was not an overnight work but more than a year of inquiry,” said Tupas. | |||
'''Rep. Barzaga asked SC to dismiss petition''' | |||
Rep. Elpidio “Pidi” Barzaga, a member of the 11-man House prosecution panel, asked the Supreme Court (SC) to dismiss with dispatch the petition asking the magistrates to stop the Senate from proceeding with the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona for lack of jurisdiction. | |||
Barzaga branded as improper the petition filed Atty. Vladimir Cabigao which sought a temporary restraining order (TRO) and writ of prohibitory injunction from the SC against the Senate impeachment court on argument that Corona’s impeachment was done in haste. | |||
He cited Section 31 of Article 13 of the Constitution which guarantees the “exclusive right of the House of Representatives” to initiate impeachment while Section 6 gives the Senate the “sole power to try and decide on impeachment cases.” | |||
“The SC should dismiss the petition on the ground of lack of jurisdiction. This is a political question. The House and the Senate were given by the Constitution the exclusive power to decide on impeachment cases. It is not a judicial controversy,” Barzaga explained. | |||
==29 barangay nutrition scholars re-oriented on milk code== | ==29 barangay nutrition scholars re-oriented on milk code== | ||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=69888 | *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=69888 | ||