Cayetano earns ire of Sotto over RH bill deliberations
By Angie M. Rosales 11/29/2011Sen. Pia Cayetano yesterday earned the ire of Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III after she made insinuations on supposed intentional delay in deliberations of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill.
Sotto gave the lady senator a mouthful during the afternoon plenary proceedings after Cayetano made the statement when she attempted to speed up deliberations on the measure which she sponsors as being health committee chairman by moving it to the period of interpellations and period of debates.
Cayetano will be left on her own in defending the bill as her co-sponsor, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago is scheduled to leave again for the United States today, to campaign for her bid in gaining a seat in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
But even before the heated exchanges on the floor, Cayetano and Santiago accused the upper chamber leadership to be engaged in a deliberate effort to delay the passage of the bill..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20111129nat1.html
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mga ayaw sa RH bill sa paniniwalang ayaw ito ng diyos, pakisabihan lang ang mga kakampi ninyong senador na masama pong gumamit ng foul play para maipanalo ang posisyon ninyo, ha po? hindi po matutuwa si bathala niyan.
"But even before the heated exchanges on the floor, Cayetano and Santiago accused the upper chamber leadership to be engaged in a deliberate effort to delay the passage of the bill.
"Both lady senators claimed that they noted that the bill has not been placed in their daily agenda or calendar of business despite the fact that the bill on proposed national budget — which takes precedence over all other pending measures — had been approved on third reading last week."
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