Lapid debates on RH bill; senators, gallery entertained
10/05/2011Sen. Manuel “Lito” Lapid’s highly-anticipated participation in the ongoing floor debates on the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill finally took place yesterday and proved to be very “entertaining” not only to his colleagues but to those in the gallery and Senate beat reporters as well.
His peers, who were delighted to see him engage the sponsor of the measure into debating with him, took turns in poking fun at him amid his interpellation.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile even approached him immediately after Lapid took the floor, to shake his hand while Sen. Edgardo Angara was seen giving him a pinch on his side as the latter passed by behind him.
But his chance to bask under the “limelight” in the Senate during plenary session proceedings, only his second since he was elected to the Senate in 2004, was short lived after Enrile cut in to call the attention of the sponsor, Sen. Pia Cayetano, who in an apparent slip of the tongue confessed that she has in fact not yet committed some health and population-related programs proposed to be funded in the 2012 budget..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111005hed5.html
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