Cayetano’s grumbling stalls Senate CA posting
By Angie Rosales 08/19/2010 The Senate held off naming its delegates to the powerful bicameral Com-mission on Appointments (CA) yesterday after senators were caught in a new standoff that was sparked by Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano’s complaint over his exclusion from the list while questioning the distribution of the CA membership. During the Senate’s afternoon plenary session, Cayetano took the floor to insist that the group identified with Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. or the so-called Villar bloc, should be entitled to three and a half seats in the appointments body and not merely three seats based on the initial lineup for the CA members. A member of the bloc, however, said that Cayetano, was not included in the drafting of the minority’s nominees to the CA. Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III told reporters that on the list as supposedly drafted by Villar, Cayetano’s name was never included. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, in debating with Cayetano, said the senators have agreed on the “groupings” scheme instead of party representation in their previous caucuses and thus, it is the responsibility of each group to assign where or to whom the seat will go. Senators had earlier reached a consensus to do away with the Constitutionally-mandated composition of CA members, that of filling in seats through “proportional party representation.”.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100819hed2.html |
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