Even as he lauded President Rodrigo Duterte’s foreign travel ban for members of the executive branch, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel said he was not inclined to impose the same among senators. Pimentel said he is in fact “encouraging” his colleagues to travel so the country would have an “internationally-engaged Senate.”“Iba po ang legislative branch from the executive branch. Hence, I want some of my colleagues to represent the Senate abroad,” he added. READ: Duterte orders travel banMeanwhile, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian proposed that the “starvation diet” on foreign trips should also be extended to lavish Christmas parties and unnecessary expenses. Gatchalian was referring to the controversial P6 million Christmas party of the PCSO in a five-star hotel.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 22, 2017 06:22 UTC