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[Title] => Congressmen: No P1 trillion budget insertions
[Summary] => Congressmen under the administration coalition have refuted statements of budget watchdogs that the appropriations bill passed by the House of Representatives contained about P1 trillion in “insertions.”
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[Title] => Symbiosis
[Summary] => After all the country suffered in the wake of the flood control scandal, the congressmen are at it again.
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[Title] => Ombudsman eyes prosecution on 12-15 ‘congtractors’
[Summary] => Twelve to 15 congressmen are facing prosecution for doubling as contractors for government infrastructure projects in violation of the law, according to Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla.
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[Title] => Incumbent Cebu congressmen, almost all invincible
[Summary] => In the Philippines, and perhaps all over the world, politicians don’t win based on merit and fitness.
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[Title] => Old porky habits die hard: P300M for each congressman
[Summary] => Congressmen are at it again. Barely two weeks after promising to enact a pork-free state budget for 2020, they recalled the bill purposely to insert personal pork barrels in it.
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[Title] => Separation of powers: Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary
[Summary] => Sometimes the most innocent children just, out of the blue, ask the most difficult questions and then make us think of the most fundamental things.
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[Title] => How to measure the performance of congressmen
[Summary] => Eternal vigilance, it has been said, is the price of liberty. The people should be watchful of what their congressmen have done and have failed to do.
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[Title] => Of abusive congressmen and incompetent bureaucrats
[Summary] => The display of blatant arrogance by that partylist congressman in the airport is indicative of the moral decay in the ranks of our officialdom.
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[Title] => Politics always divides the people
[Summary] => Mayors, governors, congressmen, senators, and presidents should unite and not fragment the people. But politics often cause too much fragmentation.
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[Title] => Questions that all Cebu congressmen should answer
[Summary] => Now that most of our Cebu representatives are asking us to give them another mandate to represent the Cebuanos in the House of Representatives, it is our right, nay, our duty to require them to make a truthful and objective report on their performance in Congress.
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[DatePublished] => 2026-11-10 00:00:00
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[Summary] => After all the country suffered in the wake of the flood control scandal, the congressmen are at it again.
[DatePublished] => 2026-11-03 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134157
[Focus] => 1
[AuthorID] => 1804783
[AuthorName] => Alex Magno
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
[URL] =>
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[Title] => Ombudsman eyes prosecution on 12-15 ‘congtractors’
[Summary] => Twelve to 15 congressmen are facing prosecution for doubling as contractors for government infrastructure projects in violation of the law, according to Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla.
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[Title] => Incumbent Cebu congressmen, almost all invincible
[Summary] => In the Philippines, and perhaps all over the world, politicians don’t win based on merit and fitness.
[DatePublished] => 2021-08-14 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136164
[Focus] => 1
[AuthorID] => 1146306
[AuthorName] => Atty Josehus B Jimenez
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[Title] => Old porky habits die hard: P300M for each congressman
[Summary] => Congressmen are at it again. Barely two weeks after promising to enact a pork-free state budget for 2020, they recalled the bill purposely to insert personal pork barrels in it.
[DatePublished] => 2019-09-06 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134276
[Focus] => 1
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[AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc
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[Title] => Separation of powers: Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary
[Summary] => Sometimes the most innocent children just, out of the blue, ask the most difficult questions and then make us think of the most fundamental things.
[DatePublished] => 2019-07-03 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136164
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[Title] => How to measure the performance of congressmen
[Summary] => Eternal vigilance, it has been said, is the price of liberty. The people should be watchful of what their congressmen have done and have failed to do.
[DatePublished] => 2019-02-28 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136164
[Focus] => 1
[AuthorID] => 1148384
[AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B Jimenez
[SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
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[Title] => Of abusive congressmen and incompetent bureaucrats
[Summary] => The display of blatant arrogance by that partylist congressman in the airport is indicative of the moral decay in the ranks of our officialdom.
[DatePublished] => 2018-10-06 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136164
[Focus] => 1
[AuthorID] => 1148714
[AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez
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[Title] => Politics always divides the people
[Summary] => Mayors, governors, congressmen, senators, and presidents should unite and not fragment the people. But politics often cause too much fragmentation.
[DatePublished] => 2018-04-24 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136164
[Focus] => 1
[AuthorID] => 1148714
[AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez
[SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
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[Title] => Questions that all Cebu congressmen should answer
[Summary] => Now that most of our Cebu representatives are asking us to give them another mandate to represent the Cebuanos in the House of Representatives, it is our right, nay, our duty to require them to make a truthful and objective report on their performance in Congress.
[DatePublished] => 2016-01-05 09:00:00
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