{"id":236703,"date":"2019-11-05T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=236703"},"modified":"2019-11-05T20:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T01:00:24","slug":"lawmakers-urged-to-disclose-budget-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/05\/lawmakers-urged-to-disclose-budget-amendments\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers urged to disclose budget amendments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220175\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61043046_2676993472370635_5588802412686082048_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220175\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61043046_2676993472370635_5588802412686082048_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61043046_2676993472370635_5588802412686082048_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61043046_2676993472370635_5588802412686082048_n-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lacson said disclosing budget amendments could dispel any suspicion that these are laden with &#8220;pork barrel.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PingLacsonOfficial\/photos\/a.2675524972517485\/2676993469037302\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PingLacsonOfficial\/\">Ping Lacson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8211;In the spirit of transparency, Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday urged fellow lawmakers to make public their proposed amendments to the 2020 national budget.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson said disclosing budget amendments could dispel any suspicion that these are laden with &#8220;pork barrel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should make everything public. That includes all amendments we submit, whether institutional or individual. We have our own websites, we should use them for this purpose, as I did for the 2019 budget,&#8221; Lacson said in a radio interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most if not all lawmakers have their own websites. Why not post their amendments there, for the public to scrutinize?&#8221; Lacson added.<\/p>\n<p>He said in the past years, some lawmakers submit their amendments to their respective finance or appropriations chairpersons without having them go through floor deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of having their amendments undergo scrutiny in-floor deliberations, some lawmakers propose their amendments verbally, or even scribble them on napkins,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The senator said the people have the right to know where their taxes are going, especially amid a growing national debt that stands at more than PHP7.9 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The national budget involves the people&#8217;s money. It should benefit the people and not a few senators or congressmen or even government officials who implement projects. And the budget is funded by our taxes, as well as borrowings if our tax collections fall short,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8211;In the spirit of transparency, Senator Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday urged fellow lawmakers to make public their proposed amendments to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":220175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/236703","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=236703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236704,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236703\/revisions\/236704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}