{"id":104449,"date":"2017-05-29T02:37:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T06:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=104449"},"modified":"2017-05-29T02:37:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T06:37:23","slug":"house-panel-subpoenas-imee-marcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/29\/house-panel-subpoenas-imee-marcos\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel subpoenas Imee Marcos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104450\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/imeefilephoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104450\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/imeefilephoto-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"The subpoena comes after Marcos, who skipped two committee hearings, failed to appear on the third hearing. (Photo: Philippine News Agency)\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/imeefilephoto-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/imeefilephoto-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/imeefilephoto-1024x792.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/imeefilephoto.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The subpoena comes after Marcos, who skipped two committee hearings, failed to appear on the third hearing. (Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\">Philippine News Agency<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014 The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability on Monday issued a subpoena to Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos for its investigation on the alleged misuse of the province&#8217;s tobacco funds worth PHP66.45 million.<\/p>\n<p>The subpoena comes after Marcos, who skipped two committee hearings, failed to appear on the third hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as&#8217; motion to subpoena Marcos was unanimously approved by members of the Good Government panel.<\/p>\n<p>House Resolution No. 882, authored by Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as, calls for a congressional inquiry into allegations of \u201chighly irregular\u201d usage of the provincial government\u2019s PHP66.45 million tobacco funds to purchase motor vehicles such as mini cabs, mini trucks, and buses.<\/p>\n<p>However, based on Republic Act 7171, excise taxes on Virginia cigarettes should be allotted for livelihood projects and infrastructure projects as a special support for tobacco farmers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014 The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability on Monday issued a subpoena to Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[15541,10655,3237],"class_list":["post-104449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-house-panel","tag-imee-marcos","tag-subpoena","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}