{"id":175312,"date":"2018-08-06T21:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T01:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=175312"},"modified":"2018-08-06T21:29:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T01:29:17","slug":"house-pass-resolution-separate-voting-con-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/06\/house-pass-resolution-separate-voting-con-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"House to pass resolution on separate voting in Con-ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_172534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172534\" style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/House-of-Representatives-of-the-PhilippinesL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172534\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/House-of-Representatives-of-the-PhilippinesL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/House-of-Representatives-of-the-PhilippinesL.jpg 648w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/House-of-Representatives-of-the-PhilippinesL-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. said the new resolution &#8220;expressing the sentiment of the House&#8221; would specify that the voting during Con-ass would be done separately by both Chambers<a href=\"http:\/\/com\/speakeralvarez\/photos\/a.661990454008860.1073741846.558694637671776\/661990640675508\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">.(File photo: Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday said the adopted resolution seeking to convene Congress into a constituent assembly (Con-ass) will be withdrawn and will be replaced with a new resolution specifying separate voting on Charter change.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with reporters, Andaya said they will withdraw House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) No. 9 during the plenary session either on Monday or Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the new resolution &#8220;expressing the sentiment of the House&#8221; would specify that the voting during Con-ass would be done separately by both Chambers.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the new resolution would be referred to the House committee on rules and would no longer undergo the House committee on constitutional amendments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There would be withdrawal (of the previous resolution). (The new one is) just a resolution expressing the sentiment of the House which we would refer to the rules committee and then present it to the plenary,&#8221; Andaya said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, House constitutional amendments committee chairman Vicente Veloso said Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered his panel to revise HCR 9 to specify that both Houses would be voting separately.<\/p>\n<p>Arroyo has already agreed to separate voting for Charter change to &#8220;move forward&#8221; and put an end to the voting &#8220;stalemate&#8221; between the two chambers.<\/p>\n<p>Several senators have insisted on separate voting on constitutional amendments as joint voting would drown out their votes against more than 200 votes of the lower chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Arroyo&#8217;s ousted predecessor, Davao del Norte Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, said the House can convene into a Con-ass even without the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday said the adopted resolution seeking to convene Congress into a constituent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":172534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175312","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=175312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}