+ Follow Appropriations Tag
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[Title] => On being Vice Chair of Appropriations
[Summary] => Calderon also dismissed speculation linking him to insertions allegedly made by Appropriations Chair Rep. Zaldy Co, particularly on a flood control project in Badian listed in the 2025 budget and flagged by Rep. Toby Tiangco.
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[Title] => Congress asked to slash Ombudsman's confidential funds from P51M to P1M
[Summary] => Ombudsman Samuel Martires made this request to Congress, which is currently reviewing the proposed 2024 national budget.
[DatePublished] => 2023-10-11 17:11:00
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[Title] => Noy to SC: Return unused funds to treasury
[Summary] => President Aquino has reminded the Supreme Court (SC) that unused public funds, including those appropriated for the judiciary, must revert to the national treasury.
[DatePublished] => 2016-01-04 09:00:00
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[Title] => House gives ombudsman P8-M intel fund
[Summary] => The House of Representatives is giving the Office of the Ombudsman an intelligence fund of P8 million for next year to strengthen its campaign against corruption in the bureaucracy.
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[Title] => Petition vs lump sums a political thing – SB
[Summary] => A petition asking the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the Aquino administration from using multibillion-peso lump sums in this year’s national budget “is just another political thing,” Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said yesterday.
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[Title] => SC asked to junk budget lump sums
[Summary] => The Supreme Court (SC) was asked yesterday to stop the government from using alleged lump sum and discretionary funds in this year’s budget.
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[Title] => Ping joins filing of anti-‘pork’ petition before SC
[Summary] => Former senator and Yolanda rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson yesterday accompanied anti-pork barrel advocates in filing their petition with the Supreme Court (SC) to stop government spending of lump sum and discretionary funds in this year’s budget.
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[Title] => ‘Congress can touch only 36% of 2015 budget’
[Summary] => The proposed national budget for next year may be in the trillions, but Congress can touch only about a third of it, the chairman of the House appropriations committee said yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2014-09-16 00:00:00
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[Title] => Palace defends lump sums
[Summary] => Malacañang defended yesterday the P501-billion lump sum appropriations in the proposed national budget for 2015, saying these were all adequately explained and broken down as programmed and unprogrammed funds.
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[Title] => ‘Other presidents realigned savings’
[Summary] => All of President Aquino’s predecessors, from his mother the late President Corazon Aquino to Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, realigned savings to augment appropriations in the national budget, a practice the Supreme Court has frowned upon.
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[Summary] => Calderon also dismissed speculation linking him to insertions allegedly made by Appropriations Chair Rep. Zaldy Co, particularly on a flood control project in Badian listed in the 2025 budget and flagged by Rep. Toby Tiangco.
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[Title] => Congress asked to slash Ombudsman's confidential funds from P51M to P1M
[Summary] => Ombudsman Samuel Martires made this request to Congress, which is currently reviewing the proposed 2024 national budget.
[DatePublished] => 2023-10-11 17:11:00
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[AuthorID] => 1807953
[AuthorName] => Ian Laqui
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[Title] => Noy to SC: Return unused funds to treasury
[Summary] => President Aquino has reminded the Supreme Court (SC) that unused public funds, including those appropriated for the judiciary, must revert to the national treasury.
[DatePublished] => 2016-01-04 09:00:00
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[Title] => House gives ombudsman P8-M intel fund
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[DatePublished] => 2015-10-25 10:00:00
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[Title] => Petition vs lump sums a political thing – SB
[Summary] => A petition asking the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the Aquino administration from using multibillion-peso lump sums in this year’s national budget “is just another political thing,” Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said yesterday.
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[AuthorName] => Edu Punay
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[Title] => Ping joins filing of anti-‘pork’ petition before SC
[Summary] => Former senator and Yolanda rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson yesterday accompanied anti-pork barrel advocates in filing their petition with the Supreme Court (SC) to stop government spending of lump sum and discretionary funds in this year’s budget.
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[Title] => ‘Congress can touch only 36% of 2015 budget’
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[DatePublished] => 2014-09-16 00:00:00
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[Title] => Palace defends lump sums
[Summary] => Malacañang defended yesterday the P501-billion lump sum appropriations in the proposed national budget for 2015, saying these were all adequately explained and broken down as programmed and unprogrammed funds.
[DatePublished] => 2014-08-01 00:00:00
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