{"id":148878,"date":"2018-01-25T18:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148878"},"modified":"2018-01-25T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:54:18","slug":"senate-house-leaders-momentarily-set-aside-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/25\/senate-house-leaders-momentarily-set-aside-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate, House leaders \u2018momentarily\u2019 set aside differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103165\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Koko-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103165\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Koko-1.jpg\" alt=\"The proposed federalism model that may be adopted by the government will be customized to be \u201cuniquely Filipino,\u201d Senate Pres. Aquilino Pimentel III said Thursday. (PNA photo)\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Koko-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Koko-1-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Senate Pres. Aquilino Pimentel III (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The leadership of the Senate and the House of Representatives have momentarily set aside their differences regarding legal views on how to amend the constitution, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel made this statement after meeting House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III, and House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as, Sr. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of focusing on how the constitution is amended, Pimentel said that they agreed to prioritize a \u201ccomprehensive, consultative\u201d review of the 1987 Constitution and the finalization of proposed constitutional amendments or revisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have decided to focus on the revisions that have to be made rather than how these changes will be effected,\u201d said Pimentel, who revealed that the agreement was made after their dinner meeting Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>More important, he said that Congress needed to determine \u201cexact\u201d amendments or revisions would benefit the people.<\/p>\n<p>He said that disagreements should not \u201cdistract\u201d both Houses from making revisions to the charter that would help improve people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he said it was clear that a review of the Charter was \u201coverdue\u201d as stressed by the resource persons including legal luminaries at the Senate hearing tackling constitutional amendments.<\/p>\n<p>Former Supreme Court (SC) Justice Adolfo Azcuna described the current Constitution as \u201cthe longest-running Constitution of the Philippines unamended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Chief Justice Reynato Puno said it was \u201ctime to give the \u201987 Constitution a look over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The leadership of the Senate and the House of Representatives have momentarily set aside their differences regarding legal views &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[14946,11118,12230,44747,3251,16640],"class_list":["post-148878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-aquilino-pimentel-iii","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-pantaleon-alvarez","tag-rodolfo-farinas-sr","tag-senate","tag-vicente-sotto-iii","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148878","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=148878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}