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                    [ArticleID] => 374628
                    [Title] => Day of infamy
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No matter how Speaker Joe de Venecia and his coterie of majority congressmen try to spin it, their abject surrender of ConAss was an unmitigated fiasco. Like Pearl Harbor, Saturday, December 9, 2006 will go down in House history as its day of infamy.

[DatePublished] => 2006-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532162 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By ricardo V. Puno Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374306 [Title] => Justice without emotion / Railroading the ChaCha [Summary] => When the guilty verdict by Judge Benjamin Pozon was read on national television, American Daniel Smith simply looked stunned, almost to the point of being catatonic. He could not believe it was happening to him, a 21-year-old kid from St. Louis, Missouri. Smith was fresh out of high school when he volunteered for the Marines in 2004, hoping it would help him save up for college and get a good start in life. [DatePublished] => 2006-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133593 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 299916 [Title] => Disqualify ConAss solons from holding public office [Summary] => LIKELY ROUTE: It is highly probable that amendments to the Constitution will be by a Constituent Assembly – that is, with both chambers of Congress convening in joint session to propose amendments by a three-fourths vote of all its members.

Convening Congress into a Constituent Assembly (ConAss) is one of three ways of amending the charter under Article XVII. The other methods are by a Constitutional Convention (ConCon) or a direct People’s Initiative.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205912 [Title] => CBCP, El Shaddai, Iglesia oppose Consa [Summary] => The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) and El Shaddai religious movements said at a Senate hearing yesterday they are opposing any moves to implement Charter change this year.

The same stance was taken by the National Secretariat for Social Action-Justice & Peace (NASSA), the social action arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

The two religious groups and other multi-sectoral organizations attended a hearing of the Senate committee on constitutional amendments yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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No matter how Speaker Joe de Venecia and his coterie of majority congressmen try to spin it, their abject surrender of ConAss was an unmitigated fiasco. Like Pearl Harbor, Saturday, December 9, 2006 will go down in House history as its day of infamy.

[DatePublished] => 2006-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532162 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By ricardo V. Puno Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374306 [Title] => Justice without emotion / Railroading the ChaCha [Summary] => When the guilty verdict by Judge Benjamin Pozon was read on national television, American Daniel Smith simply looked stunned, almost to the point of being catatonic. He could not believe it was happening to him, a 21-year-old kid from St. Louis, Missouri. Smith was fresh out of high school when he volunteered for the Marines in 2004, hoping it would help him save up for college and get a good start in life. [DatePublished] => 2006-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133593 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 299916 [Title] => Disqualify ConAss solons from holding public office [Summary] => LIKELY ROUTE: It is highly probable that amendments to the Constitution will be by a Constituent Assembly – that is, with both chambers of Congress convening in joint session to propose amendments by a three-fourths vote of all its members.

Convening Congress into a Constituent Assembly (ConAss) is one of three ways of amending the charter under Article XVII. The other methods are by a Constitutional Convention (ConCon) or a direct People’s Initiative.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136322 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804858 [AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205912 [Title] => CBCP, El Shaddai, Iglesia oppose Consa [Summary] => The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) and El Shaddai religious movements said at a Senate hearing yesterday they are opposing any moves to implement Charter change this year.

The same stance was taken by the National Secretariat for Social Action-Justice & Peace (NASSA), the social action arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

The two religious groups and other multi-sectoral organizations attended a hearing of the Senate committee on constitutional amendments yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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