vonjobi: wow, congratulations! kelan ang trip? i hope i'll be around when you come. had a good time with diosa last...
Keith Bacongco: Knowing Nograles and his Big Boss...garapalan na lang talaga.
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hopeless_race : Lets not just focus sa mga malversation of funds, sa mga overpricing..ating pagtuunan ng atensyon ang diskarte ng mga politiko na umuutang ng bilyon bilyon sa gobyerno."Small time" ang ibang pamamaraan ng pangungurakot kumpara sa pag-utang sa gobyerno ng bilyon na tunay ngang masasabing "pinaka big-time" at wala pang sabit.
hopeless_race : Mukhang tikom ang bibig ng lahat pagdating sa diskarte ng mga politiko sa pagutang ng mga bilyon bilyon sa gobyerno na tinatakbuhan. Itong pamamaraan na ito ang tunay na kumakain ng malaking porsyento ng ating national budget batay na din sa sinasabi ng world bank.
hopeless_race : Pakisilip naman po ang mga utang ni Villar sa BSP, ang mga utang nila RAMON JACINTO, RONNIE ZAMORA, JOE DE VENECIA at madami pang ibang mga pulitiko. Iilan lamang yan sa mga nababanggit sa balita na may mga malalaking utang sa gobyerno.
hopeless_race : Nagmimistulang "small time" lamang ang malversation of funds kumpara sa laki ng kinakamal ng mga umuutang sa gobyerno. At ito ay malinaw na natatakbuhan dahil hindi nga naman pwede makulong ang may-ari ng kumpanya sa pagkaka-utang lamang. Tunay na mga tuso at magagaling sa batas itong mga politiko natin. Masasabi ko na malamang lahat ng mga politiko ganito ang diskarte...wala pang kulong.
hopeless_race : PCIJ pkitingnan naman po ang mga gaya ni Villar na my malaking utang sa Gobyerno pero tinatakbuhan. Magtatayo ng kumpanya at uutang ng bilyon bilyon sa gobyerno ng walang balak bayaran. Tunay ngang walang nakukulong sa utang...ito ang prinsipyo ginagamit ng mga politiko ntin kaya nakakapagtaka kung san napupunta ang daang bilyong pera ng gobyerno.
hopeless_race : Sana itreat naman po ng media ang hacienda luisita at mendiola massacre na parang MAGUINADANAO MASSACRE. Ipublicized ang mga katotohanan at ipakita sa tao ang karumaldumal na pinaggagawa sa mga farmers dun. Untouchable po ba sila cory at danding at hindi magawang batikusin ng media about these two massacres?
hopeless_race : Kapag napaguusapan ang mendiola at hacienda luisita massacre ay parang walang nangyari at parang hindi big deal. Anu po ba ang pinagkaiba ng dalawang nabanggit na massacre sa maguindanao massacre?
hopeless_race : Its sad that we pinoys are blind to the fact of what had happened in mendiola and hacienda luisita. Ang tanong..bakit ang media ay hindi manlang matackle ang ganitong usapin? Takot ba sila kay cory at danding?
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One hundred years of lassitude

Posted by: Lala Ordenes-Cascolan | June 10, 2007 at 11:43 am
Filed under: Congress Watch, Governance, In the News

THE good news is that the Congress of the Philippines is celebrating its centennial (reckoned from the inauguration of the Philippine Assembly in 1907) as an institution, marking 100 years of electoral representation and of democratically choosing the nation’s leaders.

1907 Philippine Assembly [photo courtesy of Lopez Museum] and present-day House The bad news is that Congress, the branch of government tasked to enact laws, has not been fulfilling its legislative mandate, as shown by PCIJ’s Congress report.

As the 13th Congress drew to a close last week, the good news is that there are 64 additional Republic Acts from the 84 we’ve reported in April, bringing the number up to 148.

The bad news is that it’s still a “dismal” showing for an institution that’s supposed to be improving over time. And it’s still 25 laws short of the accomplishments of its immediate predecessor which, until this Congress, had posted the lowest output since the creation of a bicameral legislature.

The legislature, both upper and lower houses, has a budgetary allocation of P12.51 billion devoted solely to lawmaking. If we divide the budget over the laws enacted — P12.51 billion divided by 148 laws — this means that each law costs the Filipino people P84.53 million.

This means, further, that fewer and fewer laws are passed while more and more taxpayers’ money are being allocated for the purpose.

And the even worse news: parochial concerns still dominate. Of the 148 enacted laws, only 45 are of national application while 103 are local laws.

COSTLIER AND COSTLIER BUDGETS 1ST TO 13TH CONGRESS*
CONGRESS TERM	SESSION YEAR	BILLS PASSED	BUDGET/BILLS PASSED
1st	1946-1949	428	P35,294.77
2nd	1949-1953	543	45,718.64
3rd	1953-1957	1,078	27, 943.35
4th	1957-1961	1,401	36,342.80
5th	1961-1965	1,192	126,106.29
6th	1965-1969	1,481	106,610.33
7th	1969-1972	512	411, 378.04
8th	1987-1992	1,000	4,498,495.56
9th	1992-1995	534	8,678,181.65
10th	1995-1998	573	10,566,118.67
11th	1998-2001	415	21,389,250.60
12th	2001-2004	173	64,924,173.41
13th	2004-June 10, 2007	148	84,535,398.65

* Budgets for each Congress are computed by adding the full legislative budgets for the first to the second to the last years of each congressional term. The budget of the last year of each term is excluded; instead this is computed as the first year’s budget of the next Congress.
Source: General Appropriations Acts (1946-2007) and Congress of the Philippines

Unable to muster a quorum on its last session day, the House failed to even perform its ministerial duty to ratify the bicameral reports that would have approved bills providing for compensation to human rights victims during martial law, amending the University of the Philippines Charter and the Intellectual Property Code by introducing innovations to make medicines more affordable.

Instead, House leaders have been trumpeting the passage of the Human Security Act (RA 9372) as one of the notable accomplishments of the 13th Congress. Ramon Casiple of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform begs to differ.

“While we took a step forward with the abolition of the death penalty (RA 9346),” says Casiple, “we took 10 steps backward with the passage of the anti-terror law.”

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“The bad news is that Congress, the branch of government tasked to enact laws, has not been fulfilling its legislative mandate, as shown by PCIJ’s Congress”

Isn’t it that in the previous POSTS in this blog it was opined that the issues are more of IMPLEMENTING THE LAWS (administrative) rather than enactment? That is why GLORIA must be impeached or resigned. Also, I thought, that the ‘masa’ and the Ci(E)vil society are more satisified of IMPEACHMENT PROCESS and INVESTIGATIONS of GLORIA’s CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL ACTIONS? And that is the REASON WHY CAYETANO, NOYNOY AND CHIZ were elected Senators, so that THEY CAN CONTINUE AND ELEVATE MORE THE IMPEACHMENT AND INVESTIGATIONS AGAINST GLORIA. These 3, at least, didn’t care of enacting laws for two years going to 2007 mid-term election.

ANO BA TALAGA KUYA, IMPEACHMENT at IMBESTIGASYON BA O BATAS :-))