Outgoing Sen. Franklin Drilon said seniority would be given “heavier” consideration in selecting the chair of a major committee in the Senate. | NCorralesINQ
The Senate blue ribbon committee, which investigates government irregularities, is chaired by Sen. Richard Gordon, who was not reelected.
Incumbent Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara chairs the finance committee while Sen. Pia Cayetano heads the ways and means committee. Angara earlier said he was “open” to giving up the chairmanship of the committee on finance, even to Sen. Imee Marcos, the older sister of presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Actor Robin Padilla, the No. 1 senator in the May 9 elections, said he wanted to head the committee on constitutional amendments to push for Charter change.“I don’t remember or I don’t recall any neophyte senator getting the committee on finance or the committee on ways and means or the blue ribbon committee,” Drilon said.
He admitted he was “criticized” for getting the chairmanship of the powerful blue ribbon committee when he was a newbie senator in 1995.“I was criticized for accepting it—not in public but within the Senate—because I was a neophyte senator, so there are certain traditions which we observe,” he said.
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