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                    [Summary] => Malacañang is set to submit to Congress today its proposed P1.137-trillion national budget for 2007, which is 7.9 percent or P83.3 billion higher than the virtually rejected 2006 budget. 


"Well, it’s payback time," Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. said yesterday. "After the people had sacrificed paying additional taxes, it is now time for us to give back to the people what is due them in terms of government service."


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It’s Malacañang, not the Senate, that should take the blame for delays in the passage of the 2006 national budget, according to Senate President Franklin Drilon’s chief of staff.


The two sides have been blaming each other for the impasse.


"It’s Malacañang’s hardened position not to part with its bloated pork barrel fund that caused the standoff," Antonio Gallardo said in a statement issued to the media yesterday.


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In fact Palace officials are asking Congress to restore P8 billion in the proposed 2006 budget for the Kalayaan Barangay program and Kilos Asenso Support Fund, which lawmakers believe is presidential pork. 


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In a sponsorship speech delivered yesterday, committee chairman Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. said the Senate amendments came out with an increase of P4.43 billion but also a decrease of P35.54 billion, for a net budget cut of P31.11 billion.


Included in the P31.11 billion trimmed from the General Appropriations Bill was the P13.1 billion allocation for the increase in the allowances of government employees. 


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Kabilang sa panukalang tatapyasan ay mga kwestyonableng proyekto ni Pangulong Arroyo kung saan nakita ng Senado na hindi na kailangan ito at ang pagtanggal sa buong pondo ng Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).


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The two sides have been blaming each other for the impasse.


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Kabilang sa panukalang tatapyasan ay mga kwestyonableng proyekto ni Pangulong Arroyo kung saan nakita ng Senado na hindi na kailangan ito at ang pagtanggal sa buong pondo ng Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).


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Government opens fund for LGUs suffering from cut in IRA

April 7, 2009 - 12:00am

CEBU, Philippines – Municipalities adversely affected by the decrease in their Internal Revenue Allotment Shares for 2008 may now avail of the “Kilos Asenso Support Fund” initiated by the national...

Cebu News

Palace to submit P1.137-T ‘payback’ budget

August 23, 2006 - 12:00am

Malacañang is set to submit to Congress today its proposed P1.137-trillion national budget for 2007, which is 7.9 percent or P83.3 billion higher than the virtually rejected 2006 budget. "Well, it’s...

Headlines

Drilon: Blame Palace for budget impasse

June 18, 2006 - 12:00am

It’s Malacañang, not the Senate, that should take the blame for delays in the passage of the 2006 national budget, according to Senate President Franklin Drilon’s chief of staff. The two sides...

Headlines

Choking on pork

By SKETCHES | By Ana Marie Pamintuan | May 31, 2006 - 12:00am

Of course Malacañang sees nothing wrong with the congressional pork barrel. The Office of the President has its share of "pork" in the national budget — special funds that need no auditing....

Opinion

Senate slashes P31 B from ’06 budget

By Marvin Sy | May 23, 2006 - 12:00am

The Senate committee on finance has recommended a P31.11 billion cut in the proposed P1.053 trillion 2006 national budget. In a sponsorship speech delivered yesterday, committee chairman Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. said...

Headlines

P31-B tatapyasin sa 2006 budget

May 23, 2006 - 12:00am

Tatapyasan ng Senado ng halos P31.11-B ang panukalang 2006 budget na isinumite ng Mababang Kapulungan na P1.035Trilyon matapos na pormal na iharap ito ni Sen. Manny Villar Jr. sa plenaryo. Kabilang sa panukalang...

Bansa