Coming soon: Baypass flip-flops
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Bypasses — at least twice — by the bicameral Commission on Appointments (CA) on the confirmation of Cabinet secretaries will prove whether Noynoy Aquino sticks to his position or do a Gloria Arroyo.
Aquino had apparently filed a bill that sought the automatic rejection of an appointed official who would be bypassed by the CA twice. The bill was filed when Noynoy was still a senator.
Except for one time during the Arroyo presidency, the CA never rejected any Cabinet appointee, but kept on bypassing them.
However, the congressional bypasses made no difference, as Gloria always reappointed them on an ad-interim basis, after Congress went into a recess.
Chances are high that many of the Cabinet appointees of Noynoy will be undergoing bypasses, with some even given a heavy grilling by the CA, or that of a senator or congressman, using his veto power, invoking the powerful Section 20 where all CA proceedings on a Cabinet appointee is suspended — except during plenary..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101123com2.html
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