CONTROVERSIES over certain budget “insertions” that have stoked the word war between two chambers of Congress could have been avoided if the rules governing the conduct of bicameral conference committees had been followed, the former chair of the Senate Accounts committee said.
“In the course of time,” he added, “insertion of versions found in neither of the versions of two chambers has become accepted.” What prevails, he added, is the “sense of mutual trust” between two houses that they will only discuss portions where they disagree.” “Maling mali talaga .” First of all, he noted, the BCC for the budget bill is the only instance where the BCC is not open to the public.
This lack of transparency in the deliberations of the BCC for the budget bill accounts for the verbal tussle between two chambers over the P26.7 billion allotted for the AKAP program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, according to Lacson.
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