{"id":58016,"date":"2015-08-04T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T06:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58016"},"modified":"2025-03-05T23:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:06:50","slug":"senate-elects-legarda-as-new-head-of-finance-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/04\/senate-elects-legarda-as-new-head-of-finance-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Legarda elected as new head of finance panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12803\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Loren-Legarda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12803\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Loren-Legarda-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"An exasperated Sen. Loren Legarda questioned telecommunication companies about the slow and expensive internet connections. Photo from Legarda's official Facebook page.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Loren-Legarda-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Loren-Legarda-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Loren-Legarda.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Legarda&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Senator Loren Legarda was elected as the new head of the Senate committee on finance, replacing Senator Francis Escudero.<\/p>\n<p>Escudero resigned from office two weeks ago saying he do not want possible misconceptions that he may use his chairmanship to further his political plans.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy azithromycin online <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpediatrictherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/azithromycin.html\">https:\/\/centerforpediatrictherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/azithromycin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He also said that he is considering to run for Vice President with Sen. Grace Poe as his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Legarda was among the vice chairpersons of the committee with\u00a0Sens. Ralph Recto, Teofisto Guingona III and Sergio Osme\u00f1a III.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bactrim online <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpediatrictherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/bactrim.html\">https:\/\/centerforpediatrictherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/bactrim.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>She has no plans to run for reelection since she was already elected for a second term in 2013.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis soft online <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpediatrictherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cialis-soft.html\">https:\/\/centerforpediatrictherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cialis-soft.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Despite the change of leader in the committee, Senate President Franklin Drilon said that there will be no delays in the approval of the proposed P3-trillion national budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect the DBCC (Development Budget Coordination Committee) to brief the committee on the 2016 national budget probably by\u00a0Aug. 17, so that\u2019s the start of the budget process. We are committed to pass the budget by the end of session in December,\u201d Drilon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Senator Loren Legarda was elected as the new head of the Senate committee on finance, replacing Senator Francis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58016","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=58016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287310,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58016\/revisions\/287310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}