Here are some of the past cases brought to the Senate ethics committee owing to complaints of plagiarism, sexism, and gossip
Senators, as public officials, are expected to uphold ethics and proper conduct. Their behavior, however, has not always been the most exemplar.Sinasabi mo na may kinalaman ito sa Makati-Taguig issue. Sasabihin mo may sumasaksak sa likod mo. Ano iisipin nila? Ma’am isa lang sasabihin ko sa ‘yo, Lourdes pangalan mo at hindi Marites. Ayusin natin ito. Nakakahiya na,
The Senate committee of the whole took over the ethics case on April 27, 2009, after Villar said that he would rather respond to the issues raised before the plenary and not before what he deemed as the “Kangaroo Court” of the ethics committee. It then recommended that the senator be censured for committing acts that “damaged the integrity” of the chamber.
Gordon had earlier accused Trillanes of spreading gossip during a Senate hearing on the P6.4-billion worth of smuggled shabu. In a speech about the reproductive health bill, Sotto allegedly lifted text from a blog post of US blogger Sarah Pope. Later, Sotto’s staff admitted toSotto was also accused of using a quote from the late US senator Robert Kennedy and translating it to Filipino without proper attribution. Kennedy’s daughter Kerry even demanded an apology from Sotto.
In its September 20, 1988 decision, the committee led by Rene Saguisag reminded Enrile “to be more careful in the future.
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