P1.6-T budget clears 2nd reading in House
10/17/2010By Charlie V. Manalo
After a record 10 session days of grueling marathon plenary debates that ended before dawn yesterday, the House of Representatives passed on second reading the government’s proposed P1.645-trillion “reform” budget for next year.
“We lost sleep, but kept our word,” Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said after the budget was approved at 3 a.m. yesterday.
The top 10 departments receiving the biggest allocations in the proposed budget are: Department of Education (including Educational Facilities Fund), P207.3 billion; Department of Public Works and Highways, P110.6 billion; Department of National Defense (including pension and the AFP Modernization Program), P104.7 billion; Department of the Interior and Local Government (including pension), P88.2 billion; Department of Agriculture, P37.7 billion; Department of Social Welfare and Development, P34.3 billion; Department of Health, P33.3 billion; Department of Transportation and Communications, P32.3 billion; Department of Agrarian Reform, P16.7 billion, and the judiciary, P14.3 billion.
Since its presentation to Congress on Sept. 1, the proposed budget faced tough public scrutiny.
First to protest was the judiciary which decried its appropriation of P14.3 billion or P9 billion lower than what it requested from the DBM..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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