Impeach Merci moves to take backseat, says Speaker
By Gerry Baldo 10/01/2010A delay in the impeachment proceedings against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez is imminent as the House of Representatives gears for the passage of the 2011 national budget starting Monday next week.
According to Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, the next two weeks would be entirely devoted to the plenary debates on the proposed General Appropriations Act of 2011 followed by a three-week break. “The next two weeks is devoted almost entirely to budget deliberations and sponsorships and, thereafter, there will be a three-week break,” Belmonte said during a weekly press conference with House reporters yesterday.
Congress will take a recess from Oct. 16 to Nov. 7.
He added the filing of comments by the lower chamber before the Supreme Court yesterday could untangle the impasse between the legislature and the judiciary.
The House committee on justice hasvoted to ignore the high tribunal’s status quo ante ruling enjoining the House to refrain from hearing the impeachment case against Gutierrez pending the resolution of the latter’s petition for the SC to come up with a ruling on whether two impeachment complaints against her could be pursued by the House..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101001hed5.html
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