+ Follow AFTER CONGRESS Tag
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[Title] => Passage of Bangsamoro Law seen by early 2015
[Summary] => With the assurance of President Aquino that the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law would be submitted to Congress by the time it resumes its plenary sessions next month, Senate President Franklin Drilon is confident the measure would be approved by the first quarter of next year at the latest.
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[Title] => RP enacts law claiming disputed islands
[Summary] => MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- President Arroyo has signed a law defining Philippine territory, sparking protests from China and Vietnam over the control of strategic South China Sea islands, an official said today.
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[Title] => Congress inquiry won’t lower electricity rates
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[AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc
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[Title] => Teachers unhappy with P1,500 pay increase
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Public school teachers are dissatisfied with the proposed pay increase of P1,500 for more than a million government workers.
"We are thankful that Malacañang realized the need to augment our income. On the other hand, what is P1,500 compared to the inflation we experienced from year 2001?" asked Benjo Basas, a Caloocan City teacher and chairperson of the Teachers Dignity Coalition (TDC).
Basas noted that public school teachers and other government employees have already been suffering from a five-year wage freeze since 2001.
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[Title] => RP may end year with lower-than-expected deficit
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The government is likely to end 2006 with a lower-than-expected budget deficit.
The Bureau of Treasury (BTr) and the Department of Finance (DOF) are scheduled to release the November fiscal numbers next week and officials said initial indications show government agencies having difficulties spending their budget allocations.
National Treasurer Omar Cruz told reporters that government agencies are having a hard time spending partly because of limitations in procurement and partly because the funds came too late.
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[Title] => NG seen outperforming budget gap target
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The government is expected to outperform its programmed deficit for 2006 by as much as P15 billion, the Congressional Planning and Budget Department (CPBD) said in a study.
The CPBD, the research arm of the House of Representatives, said in its latest estimate that the government is likely to succeed at containing its deficit within the P107.6 billion to P110 billion range.
At this level, the fiscal deficit would be equivalent to 1.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), way below the target of at least 2.3 percent of GDP.
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[Title] => NG saves P31B in interest expense
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Finance officials said the government has so far saved up to P31 billion in interest expense and overall debt service from the realignment of its debt portfolio, including three successful bond swaps.
Pressed to improve the country’s debt ratios, the Arroyo administration has been retiring some of its more expensive short-term obligations, holding back on borrowing and cleaning up its yield curve.
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[Title] => Back on track
[Summary] => With dark forebodings of what the country faces unless drastic reforms are made soon, charter change looms as the constitutional way out of the dilemma. Gen. Fortunato Abat is patriotic and a good man but he must know that any seizure of power through extralegal means at this time, however well intentioned, is doomed to fail. As another columnist has said, we have gone through this before and it did not work. It did not work because good intentions do not necessarily translate to good government.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-08 00:00:00
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[Title] => Gov’t reports 30% drop in tobacco tax collection
[Summary] => After Congress refused to index the excise tax on tobacco to inflation, revenue reports indicated that the Arroyo administration suffered a 30 percent decline in its revenue collection from the taxes on tobacco products during the first two months of the year.
Data from the Department of Finance (DOF) showed that although total collections in January and February surpassed expectations, there was a deep cut in tobacco tax collections compared to 2004 collections.
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AFTER CONGRESS
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[Summary] => With the assurance of President Aquino that the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law would be submitted to Congress by the time it resumes its plenary sessions next month, Senate President Franklin Drilon is confident the measure would be approved by the first quarter of next year at the latest.
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[Title] => RP enacts law claiming disputed islands
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[Title] => Teachers unhappy with P1,500 pay increase
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Public school teachers are dissatisfied with the proposed pay increase of P1,500 for more than a million government workers.
"We are thankful that Malacañang realized the need to augment our income. On the other hand, what is P1,500 compared to the inflation we experienced from year 2001?" asked Benjo Basas, a Caloocan City teacher and chairperson of the Teachers Dignity Coalition (TDC).
Basas noted that public school teachers and other government employees have already been suffering from a five-year wage freeze since 2001.
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The government is likely to end 2006 with a lower-than-expected budget deficit.
The Bureau of Treasury (BTr) and the Department of Finance (DOF) are scheduled to release the November fiscal numbers next week and officials said initial indications show government agencies having difficulties spending their budget allocations.
National Treasurer Omar Cruz told reporters that government agencies are having a hard time spending partly because of limitations in procurement and partly because the funds came too late.
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[Title] => NG seen outperforming budget gap target
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The government is expected to outperform its programmed deficit for 2006 by as much as P15 billion, the Congressional Planning and Budget Department (CPBD) said in a study.
The CPBD, the research arm of the House of Representatives, said in its latest estimate that the government is likely to succeed at containing its deficit within the P107.6 billion to P110 billion range.
At this level, the fiscal deficit would be equivalent to 1.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), way below the target of at least 2.3 percent of GDP.
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[Title] => NG saves P31B in interest expense
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Finance officials said the government has so far saved up to P31 billion in interest expense and overall debt service from the realignment of its debt portfolio, including three successful bond swaps.
Pressed to improve the country’s debt ratios, the Arroyo administration has been retiring some of its more expensive short-term obligations, holding back on borrowing and cleaning up its yield curve.
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[Summary] => With dark forebodings of what the country faces unless drastic reforms are made soon, charter change looms as the constitutional way out of the dilemma. Gen. Fortunato Abat is patriotic and a good man but he must know that any seizure of power through extralegal means at this time, however well intentioned, is doomed to fail. As another columnist has said, we have gone through this before and it did not work. It did not work because good intentions do not necessarily translate to good government.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-08 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134199
[Focus] => 0
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[AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa
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[Title] => Gov’t reports 30% drop in tobacco tax collection
[Summary] => After Congress refused to index the excise tax on tobacco to inflation, revenue reports indicated that the Arroyo administration suffered a 30 percent decline in its revenue collection from the taxes on tobacco products during the first two months of the year.
Data from the Department of Finance (DOF) showed that although total collections in January and February surpassed expectations, there was a deep cut in tobacco tax collections compared to 2004 collections.
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January 3, 2007 - 12:00am
