MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The principal author of the Bangsamoro Bill was losing his hope on the approval in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly 10 session days left to pass the bill,\u201d said Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n If the Bangsamoro Basic Bill passed by the lawmakers before they go on a month-long Christmas break in mid-December, the bill would create a new Bangsamoro region in Muslim Mindanao, said by the chairman of the ad hoc on the Bangsamoro.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll be running out of time when we reconvene in January. Mustering a quorum will be more difficult,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n President Benigno Aquino III said to Rodriguez the bill could still be passed if there\u2019s a \u201cmore forceful intervention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He proposed that Aquino should personally appeal to lawmakers to work on and pass the Bangsamoro Bill.<\/span><\/p>\n The bill is still in the period of plenary debates in the Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n Several colleagues of Rodriguez said their intention to grill him on the bill he\u2019s sponsoring.<\/span><\/p>\n Minority leader Juan Ponce Enrile asked at the Senate for at least one week to ask questions about the Bangsamoro Basic Bill.<\/span><\/p>\n The two houses of Congress will have their month-long Christmas recess on Dec. 19. While Dec. 16 was their last session day of the House for this year because it is only convening only from Monday to Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n The Congress will only have nine days of session after it reconvenes on January next year.<\/span><\/p>\n Aquino urged his congressional allies to approve the Bangsamoro Bill, but the House failed to muster the quorum on Monday despite appeals from some members for attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano III urged his colleagues over the weekend to show up in the few remaining sessions for this year.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSo much to do but very little time left. We must do our utmost not only to pass vital pieces of legislation but to also leave a legacy of being a working and productive legislature,\u201d Albano said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The principal author of the Bangsamoro Bill was losing his hope on the approval in the House …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":65578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-65594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-p-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594","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=65594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}