Palace: Arroyo to 'act accordingly' on signing ratified 2010 budget
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will “act accordingly" in signing into law the P1.54-trillion national budget for 2010, following its ratification by both houses of Congress.
Malacañang gave this assurance Saturday as it thanked senators and congressmen for “working overtime" to pass the budget before yearend.
“As soon as it is transmitted to Malacañang, the President will act accordingly," Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said on government-run dzRB radio, when asked when Mrs. Arroyo will sign the measure into law.
Remonde relayed the Palace’s thanks to the lawmakers for convening a session Friday just to pass the budget measure.
Mrs. Arroyo arrived in the country early Saturday from a climate change meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.
On Friday, both houses of Congress ratified the proposed P1.54-trillion national budget before going into holiday break.
The House ratified the budget without much opposition at 5:40 p.m., while the Senate ratified it a few minutes later.
But at the Senate, three senators voted against its approval: Panfilo Lacson, Benigno Simeon “Noynoy" Aquino III, and Manuel “Mar" Roxas II.
Contingents from the two chambers reconciled differing provisions in their own versions of the proposed budget last Wednesday.
Senate finance committee chairman Edgardo Angara, who presented the committee report to the plenary, said the bicameral conference committee adopted the Senate approved budget level which is 400 million lower than the President’s proposed budget of P1.541 trillion.
The P400-million cut to the ratified 2010 budget includes pork barrel or Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) allocations waived by Senators Lacson and Ma. Ana Consuelo Madrigal. - GMANews.TV
Malacañang gave this assurance Saturday as it thanked senators and congressmen for “working overtime" to pass the budget before yearend.
“As soon as it is transmitted to Malacañang, the President will act accordingly," Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said on government-run dzRB radio, when asked when Mrs. Arroyo will sign the measure into law.
Remonde relayed the Palace’s thanks to the lawmakers for convening a session Friday just to pass the budget measure.
Mrs. Arroyo arrived in the country early Saturday from a climate change meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.
On Friday, both houses of Congress ratified the proposed P1.54-trillion national budget before going into holiday break.
The House ratified the budget without much opposition at 5:40 p.m., while the Senate ratified it a few minutes later.
But at the Senate, three senators voted against its approval: Panfilo Lacson, Benigno Simeon “Noynoy" Aquino III, and Manuel “Mar" Roxas II.
Contingents from the two chambers reconciled differing provisions in their own versions of the proposed budget last Wednesday.
Senate finance committee chairman Edgardo Angara, who presented the committee report to the plenary, said the bicameral conference committee adopted the Senate approved budget level which is 400 million lower than the President’s proposed budget of P1.541 trillion.
The P400-million cut to the ratified 2010 budget includes pork barrel or Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) allocations waived by Senators Lacson and Ma. Ana Consuelo Madrigal. - GMANews.TV
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