Half-baked measure half-baked measure EDITORIAL 09/25/2011

Half-baked measure half-baked measure

EDITORIAL

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09/25/2011
Noynoy’s allies in the House rushing the approval of the budget for next year apparently on the prodding of the Palace, is resulting in an unprecedented spectacle in the legislature of a measure being literally regurgitated, reflecting mostly on the poor leadership of the lower chamber.

The House process requires that the budget bill be in its complete form when it passes second reading as the third and final reading of the bill would merely be a matter of the fine-tuning of its wordings before it is transmitted to the Senate.

For an important bill such as the budget, the process requires a more thorough scrutiny of the measure that should have been done prior to this bill being sent to the plenary, which was supposed to have been done during the first and second readings of the bill.

The third reading should have been done since the bill is to merely receive formal approval of Congress and where amendments are not allowed anymore..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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