Starting
Monday, September 7, the House of Representatives will be holding five session
days a week – from Monday to Friday – instead of three session days – to work
on the priority bills, including the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), before
Congress goes on recess from October 10 to November 2, Mindanews reported on
September 6.
But
whether or not the House leadership can guarantee a quorum in the additional
two session days when it could hardly have a quorum Mondays to Wednesdays,
remains a question.
Last Sunday
morning, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. told Manila-based DZBB that it could
not guarantee this. He also acknowledged that many representatives do not like
the additional session days because of the election season.
“Not many
congressmen like that because it is political season now,” Belmonte said,
according to the transcript of the DZBB interview.
Meanwhile
att the Senate, Senate President Franklin Drilon told reporters on September 3
that they are not contemplating holding sessions on Thursdays and Fridays
because “the budget does not come to the Senate until the first week of
November.”
“We still
have time until October 9. The budget is not yet on the floor, it is still in
the committee. So we are not contemplating on having a Thursday or Friday
session,” Drilon said, according to the transcript of the interview posted on
the Senate website.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/new/item/560-house-to-hold-5-session-days-a-week-to-work-on-bbl-other-priority-bills
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