In the wake of the controversy surrounding the bicam report on the budget, DBM Secretary Pangandaman and Representative Quimbo say: legislative staff can 'clean' and 'implement adjustments' in the spending bill
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How to explain the blanks in the bicam report that contained the final amendments of the legislative? Rappler’s research also found that the blanks were all in relation to programs of the Department of Agriculture, and the adjustments involved billions of pesos. For days, delegates from the House were mum on the issue, with acting appropriations chairperson Stella Quimbo even dodging reporters’ requests for an interview twice last week.
“Any suggestion of impropriety is unfounded and appears to be politically motivated rather than prompted by genuinely substantive concerns. It is unfortunate that an administrative matter is being maliciously misconstrued to create controversy where there is none,” she added.
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