The Senate's inquiry into the controversial people's initiative to amend the 1987 Constitution has left many feeling confused and bewildered. Despite promises to expose the House's involvement, the hearing failed to provide substantial evidence or identify the mastermind behind the affair.
If you watched last Tuesday the Senate 's inquiry into the controversial people's initiative to amend the 1987 Constitution , don't blame yourself if you came away feeling like me more confused and bewildered by this noisy quarrel between the houses of Congress. While promising to expose the House's involvement in the initiative, what Sen. Imee Marcos detonated sounded more like a firecracker.
No one could see anything impeachable in House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez's talking to the lead convenor of the people's initiative. The committee hearing failed to subpoena some personages whose presence and testimony could have shed plenty of information on the initiative and signature campaign and perhaps the identity of the mastermind behind the affair. You would think, given the many accusations and criticisms of the initiative by the Senate, that the hearing would proceed in a workmanlike fashion to establish quickly the facts, the evil scheme, the objectives and the central characters in this allegedly sinister program to amend the Charte
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