Lagman hits ‘railroaded’ House approval of Malasakit Center bill

Members who wanted to introduce individual amendments and question the lack of quorum during the plenary was also “deliberately” refused to be acknowledged, he also noted.

The substitute bill was also neither submitted nor approved by the sponsoring House committee on health, Lagman further said. “The copycat version which was purportedly and hurriedly crafted by the Committee on Rules was the direct aftermath of Go’s importuning for the House leadership to cause the approval of a version completely identical to his Malasakit bill in order to preclude a bicameral conference committee,” Lagman said in a statement.

With this development, Lagman lamented that the committee system of the House, as well as the plenary deliberations, were “put to nought in favor of exigency and conscripted unanimity.” “It is bad enough when a bill is approved by a tyranny of numbers over the ascendancy of reason, but it is worse when a bill is deemed approved by a paucity of numbers in derogation of parliamentary rules,” he said.

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