MANILA, Philippines—Congressmen ended up pointing fingers at each other on Monday (March 1) over a P20-billion cut in pension funds for retired soldiers and policemen.
The debate used up more than three hours of the House of Representqtives’ plenary session and seemed to revive the rivalry between the camps of Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and his predecessor, Taguig Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano.
Names of past and current House officials allied with either Velasco or Cayetano were dragged into the fray.
Rep. Michael Defensor, of the party-list group Anakalusugan, raised the amount of pension and gratuity fund for military and police pensioners which Defensor said had been “significan…
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