Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri earlier said the Senate leadership would allot the time for careful deliberations on the budget. House delay, porkSen. Panfilo Lacson earlier claimed that last-minute insertions by members of the House for their pork allocations were delaying the passage of the budget bill in the chamber. House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. denied that lawmakers’ insertions delayed the passage of the expenditure bill. But he said the funds were not pork as these were not lump-sum appropriations, which the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in 2013. Senators’ own pet projectsZubiri also admitted that senators also had “institutional insertions” in the budget measure for their own pet projects.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 02, 2018 23:15 UTC