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Deputy Speaker Gerry Salappudin and Antique Rep. Exequiel Javier, ways and means committee vice chairman, said the Senate’s delay spoiled the peso’s six-day rally against the American dollar.


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In Geneva, UN human rights chief Mary Robinson welcomed on Wednesday Mrs. Arroyo’s decision to defer the executions of three rapists, notably Rolando Pagdayawon’s which was slated today, and called on Philippine authorities to abolish the death penalty. 


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"We have already reached a multi-partisan consensus in the House and the Senate, and Congress would be ready to approve it when it returns to work (on April 15)," he told a group of Filipinos in Athens.


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"I will just have to live with the 2000 budget until Congress passes a budget for 2002," Mrs. Arroyo said. 


At the House, a key leader warned the nation yesterday that Congress may not be able to approve the proposed P781-billion 2002 budget before yearend.


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