DRILON PRESSES CHA-CHA, ECONOMIC AMENDMENTS
Senators cool to con-ass
By Angie M. Rosales 10/01/2011Senators yesterday expectedly raised a howl over the reported consensus reached by Congress leaders during Thursday’s legislative summit, to explore the idea of tinkering with the Constitution, saying that there was no prior discussion on this, much more, was there a collective position among upper chamber members even reached.
An administration senator said agreements reached by leaders of the two Houses of Congress “do not bind the Senate in any way.”
A member of the minority bloc said she and her colleagues were unaware that Charter change (Cha-cha) is even part of their senators’ priority agenda under the current Congress.
Sen. Franklin Drilon, who delivered a paper on the possible revision of the 1987 Constitution in the summit held at the Edsa Shangri-la hotel in Mandaluyong, was quick to defend the congressional leaders’ move, amid criticisms hurled at them by their peers..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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