MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Panfilo Lacson, known for detecting so-called pork insertions in the budget, asked his colleagues in Congress to make public their amendments in the 2021 P4.1-trillion budget bill.
“If we have nothing to hide, we have to make our amendments public, as I have done in my case, so those amendments can be scrutinized by the media as well as the public,” Lacson said in a statement issued on Saturday, derived from an earlier interview he gave over AM radio station DZRH.
“It is the mandate of Congress to make amendments to the budget bill; we cannot just adopt the National Expenditure Program en toto,” he added.
Lacson said making amendments public woul…
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