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                    [Title] => LP members in House reunite, declare support for JDV
                    [Summary] => The 34-member Liberal Party bloc in the House of Representatives decided yesterday to support the leadership of Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. 


The LP is the third biggest group in the House after the ruling Lakas and the Nationalist People’s Coalition to throw its support behind De Venecia in the face of a challenge from Surigao del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay Jr. who has been campaigning among his colleagues to replace his House boss. 


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                    [Title] => Congressmen quarrel over CA posts
                    [Summary] => Members of both the majority and minority blocs in the House of Representatives are quarreling over three seats in the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA) that are expected to be vacated soon.


Representatives Rodolfo Plaza of Agusan del Sur and Jacinto Paras of Negros Oriental are lobbying for the lone minority seat in the 12-member House contingent in the CA that Imee Marcos of Ilocos Norte has given up.


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                    [Title] => House coalition leaders meet today to tackle reorganization
                    [Summary] => A major reorganization of House committees as an offshoot of the failed move to impeach President Arroyo three weeks ago is in the works.


Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. told The STAR last night that he would meet today with leaders of his chamber, the ruling Lakas party and smaller political groups that make up the majority coalition to discuss the impending revamp.


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                    [Title] => ‘Arroyo allies get P45 M in pork barrel’
                    [Summary] => After all the hard work in the impeachment proceedings come the just rewards.


Allies of President Arroyo in the House of Representatives have been trooping to Malacañang in the dead of night since last Tuesday to receive a total of P45 million in pork barrel funds.


The STAR learned from House sources yesterday that it is the embattled President herself who has been handing out budget documents covering the funds.


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                    [Title] => LP smells politics in Cavite governor’s suspension
                    [Summary] => The Liberal Party is smelling politics in the six-month suspension of Cavite Gov. Ireneo "Ayong" Maliksi by the Office of the Ombudsman.


Deputy Speaker Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, LP secretary general, said yesterday Maliksi’s suspension is "an obvious political harassment by the administration to get even with members of the LP who have joined the call for the resignation of President Arroyo in the wake of the ‘Hello, Garci’ and jueteng payola scandals."


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                    [Title] => Shut up, Gonzalez, Defensor told
                    [Summary] => A congressional ally of President Arroyo urged Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, Environment Secretary Mike Defensor and Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo to shut up on the raging political crisis.


The more the three open their mouths, the more damage they cause the presidency "in their overzealous defense of the President," Cebu City Rep. Antonio Cuenco said in a statement yesterday.


He said unless the three "ramblers, tattlers and babblers" shut up, they were bound to commit "more slips and tumbles."


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                    [Title] => Noynoy willing to give up House post
                    [Summary] => Deputy Speaker Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III said yesterday he is willing to give up his House post if his colleagues take it away from him as punishment for withdrawing his support for President Arroyo.


"If that is the punishment, then I will accept it. I did not aspire for this post. They offered it to me," he told reporters.


He was reacting to a statement of Majority Leader Prospero Nograles that the House would soon undertake a purge of "renegade" members – those who have called for the President’s resignation.


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DEPUTY SPEAKER BENIGNO

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The LP is the third biggest group in the House after the ruling Lakas and the Nationalist People’s Coalition to throw its support behind De Venecia in the face of a challenge from Surigao del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay Jr. who has been campaigning among his colleagues to replace his House boss. 


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                    [Title] => Congressmen quarrel over CA posts
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Representatives Rodolfo Plaza of Agusan del Sur and Jacinto Paras of Negros Oriental are lobbying for the lone minority seat in the 12-member House contingent in the CA that Imee Marcos of Ilocos Norte has given up.


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                    [Title] => House coalition leaders meet today to tackle reorganization
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Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. told The STAR last night that he would meet today with leaders of his chamber, the ruling Lakas party and smaller political groups that make up the majority coalition to discuss the impending revamp.


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                    [Title] => ‘Arroyo allies get P45 M in pork barrel’
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The STAR learned from House sources yesterday that it is the embattled President herself who has been handing out budget documents covering the funds.


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                    [Title] => LP smells politics in Cavite governor’s suspension
                    [Summary] => The Liberal Party is smelling politics in the six-month suspension of Cavite Gov. Ireneo "Ayong" Maliksi by the Office of the Ombudsman.


Deputy Speaker Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, LP secretary general, said yesterday Maliksi’s suspension is "an obvious political harassment by the administration to get even with members of the LP who have joined the call for the resignation of President Arroyo in the wake of the ‘Hello, Garci’ and jueteng payola scandals."


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                    [Title] => Shut up, Gonzalez, Defensor told
                    [Summary] => A congressional ally of President Arroyo urged Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, Environment Secretary Mike Defensor and Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo to shut up on the raging political crisis.


The more the three open their mouths, the more damage they cause the presidency "in their overzealous defense of the President," Cebu City Rep. Antonio Cuenco said in a statement yesterday.


He said unless the three "ramblers, tattlers and babblers" shut up, they were bound to commit "more slips and tumbles."


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                    [Title] => Noynoy willing to give up House post
                    [Summary] => Deputy Speaker Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III said yesterday he is willing to give up his House post if his colleagues take it away from him as punishment for withdrawing his support for President Arroyo.


"If that is the punishment, then I will accept it. I did not aspire for this post. They offered it to me," he told reporters.


He was reacting to a statement of Majority Leader Prospero Nograles that the House would soon undertake a purge of "renegade" members – those who have called for the President’s resignation.


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