MONoAY I APRIL 22, 2Ol9

COMMONSENSE
MARICHU A. VILLANUEVA

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of vetoed budget -The
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the House still tarqled overa conllicting version of tle final
siened last Monday Republic A.t
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-'- err".ii"a', the president's veto virtua'v upherd 'ot'"ra
Mediatde:'::';fr.ij"ii;ils the Senate o6iection to the Pq5 37 billion worth of re-
live Secrerary Satvador
office in Malacaflang Palace
confer'ence commiitee approval ofthe 2019 budget bill'
The Chie{ Executive ended the budget conboversies
rtre President based thli ifter the Cabinet vetting done
bv invokine hjs line-item *. pr#"13 "'li"t il" rs?i
the "condjtional siqnature" made by senate prcsident
constitutio-n. Thus, th" upprou"a G"qi-r;;"issl;tl](J.
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"oointed to this post-bicam changes
less than the original
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rh:r prcsirtenr Dubrte submifted to iiie lZtliCo'ngti:ss in that miraiulously goi prin-ted in the bnrolled copy of the
i"i" iuiiu"-. et tigned, the President approved P3 652 ProPosed
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2u 19 buclget Drrr'
all a lossfor Congressmen
of the natioiri.l govemment . Despite the veto,lr was not
r^- !L:- .,-,r TLa pqE 3 Wffi"" th" totul after PrcsidentDuterte agreed to extend until Dec 31 ihis
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zorse;;utistartea from ihe natio"nal g"overnment untii De; 31,2020 Thus' no
if."-trr-"lJt*.t'ti,.,ie SfHouse leadership hom former to
cash budget svstem for thrs year'
Speake, Davao del Norte n"p. F"r,iul",ir, Alvarez Cabin; Sd=1un KarloAJe.ie Nograles disdosed these
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in breakfast
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The Presiden(s submlssron of the 2019 hdg+ lill i" rvraiute fte rirst rime was in Slptember last year'
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of Davao
u"ior"a uu ttt" ensuing Hous" ieadershiilriultJra he was still congressman from the fust district
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8"'r"lu'zs tuti u"ut jr" the nation Ciry where lrcsidenl Duterte resides
]i#ir:i.Jil ',iii ." ,t-ri ntJt sg"s of troubles for irograles was lhen the outSoing chairman of the
t'"-"'.,""""i'z?rTs u.ia""i uirr t"ot ioot" and led to €t House" committee on appropriations before he was
;;5;ffiilJ;"t.ititiJrv, tt't" ct"gressmen balked unceremoniously replacei by Co-ngressman Rolando
o""-ro,"nt of sudget and'Managerient (DBM) Sec- Andaya Before he boued outas House appropriations
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,"6^i6Jri" ir-oir-r.?Jt . committee chief, Nograles turned over.the 201q b_udget
'r"f*r" ,o frf y Hence, these were bill to the Committee of the Whole of the enhre House
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iii,i"i*itt " i]rl-U*.i t fr"'i""'";1i;;"- ; f Subsequenllv, President Duterte appointed the 42-year-
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Under a cash-based ." *hy Pg5.jbillion o( tlese provisions 8ot cut out from
u"Jn"tt.*, cash has to be spent within a year wiih a d""ig196AA'Thebulkofthe P95 3-billion vetoed items
,r*?-r"ri"a of tfuee months at most of the next suc- were public works ptojects that were not identified in
:;;ii*u;-. The government previously adopted are an the Presiden(s origrnal budget, Nograles noted.
,i"-["t"a Sudgeting, wherein payments Hence, these viere the iisertions of "pork-barrel"
,eleised as commitments or obligations, without any that were vetoed.
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time-bound lirnits. . Nograles recited the Presidenf-s previous declara-
UJ"l *r" ota budget system, contracts can be detivercd tion' lie would not sign anything illegal, including the
even aftet the vear it wis awarded Economic manag- supreme court ruling on ihe "porkbarrel" case' nor
I *ho uraut"a Dokro - justified the shift lo annual anything that does not conform to the Constitution
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.-r, u"*a-u"Jg"ting would fast track the delivery ard the iabinet secret-ary conceded that the vetoed P95 3
completion of i'overi.rment programs and proiects and bitlion meant less budget thatcould havebeen allocated
l.,revlnt under slpending, ifnot plug sources of corruPhon. to the administration's priority exPenditure Program
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ii-"*"Jally. This, after sbme i{ouse leaders be res?rrected "iheoretically" through- supplemental
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uli"r"J'oiot"o of a'llegedly having favored certain budget for this year. But this miracle will happen though
orivate "contractor" related to his daughter in gethng in the next Congress.
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