{"id":49962,"date":"2015-05-20T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49962"},"modified":"2015-05-20T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:02:17","slug":"pacquiao-to-lead-olympic-games-committee-instead-of-committee-on-ofws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/20\/pacquiao-to-lead-olympic-games-committee-instead-of-committee-on-ofws\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao to lead Olympic games committee instead of committee on OFWs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12807\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12807\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"People's Champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao. Photo by Chris Farina \/ Pacquiao's official Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People&#8217;s Champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao. Photo by Chris Farina \/ Pacquiao&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The House of Representatives on Tuesday picked AGAP party-list Rep. Nicanor Briones instead of Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao to lead the Committee on Overseas Filipino Workers Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite Pacquiao&#8217;s being the most senior vice-chairman of the said committee.<\/p>\n<p>The boxing champ became the de facto acting chairman following the resignation of Walden Bello in March.<\/p>\n<p>He was also reported to have expressed his interest to permanently chair the panel which will also lead the forthcoming investigation into the plight of convicted drug mule, Mary Jane Veloso.<\/p>\n<p>It could be noted that House Speaker Sonny Belmonte had recently expressed preference to pick a chair who is more active and present in the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Based on records of Congress, Pacquiao has been among the list of top absentees.<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Neptali Goncales II, meanwhile, explained that they will ask Pacquiao to head the committee on summer Olympic games.<\/p>\n<p>The said committee will be composed of 35 congressman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The House of Representatives on Tuesday picked AGAP party-list Rep. Nicanor Briones instead of Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49962","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=49962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}