{"id":222220,"date":"2019-07-09T19:43:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T23:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222220"},"modified":"2019-07-09T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T23:46:23","slug":"good-working-relations-between-senate-house-seen-sotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/09\/good-working-relations-between-senate-house-seen-sotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Good working relations between Senate, House seen: Sotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_217211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217211\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/60096326_2421693297854937_5213903839928778752_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217211\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/60096326_2421693297854937_5213903839928778752_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/60096326_2421693297854937_5213903839928778752_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/60096326_2421693297854937_5213903839928778752_n-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/60096326_2421693297854937_5213903839928778752_n-768x464.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Senate President Vicente Tito Sotto tells reporters during the Kapihan sa Senado Thursday, May 16, 2019, that technical glitches in the just-concluded poll exercise comprise only a small percentage and believes that the election results were credible. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/photos\/a.815377408486542\/2421693294521604\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/\">Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senate President Vicente Sotto III is seeing smooth working relations with the House of Representatives under the leadership of Taguig Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano for the 18th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely. Second time in history that a Senator becomes Speaker of the House. He knows us, we know him and I do not mean that literally only,&#8221; Sotto told reporters on Tuesday when asked if he is expecting a good relationship between both chambers of Congress if Cayetano assumes the top House post.<\/p>\n<p>The first senator to become House Speaker was former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte earlier announced his endorsement for Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco as the next speakers of the House of Representatives under a term-sharing agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano will serve as Speaker in the first 15 months, and Velasco will be the Speaker during the next 21 months.<\/p>\n<p>He said Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez, also a House Speaker bet, would be the next Majority Leader in the lower chamber.<\/p>\n<p>He said Cayetano, who was his running mate in the 2016 national elections, expressed his desire to be House Speaker during the mid-term polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been very clear on that<em>\u00a0na<\/em>\u00a0during the campaign,\u00a0<em>sabi niya kung manalo siya, gusto niya mag-S<\/em>peaker (If he wins, he wants to be a Speaker). He was the first one at least to intimate to me that &#8212;<em>\u00a0nagpasa na gusto<\/em>\u00a0(expressed his desire),\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senate President Vicente Sotto III is seeing smooth working relations with the House of Representatives under the leadership of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":217211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222220","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\/222220","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222221,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222220\/revisions\/222221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}