Congress passes 1 bill, goes on a month's break
The 13th Congress went on a one-month recess yesterday - 60 days after convening - with the passage of a bill postponing this month's elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to October next year authored by Sen. Richard Gordon as its saving grace.
For the first two months of its regular session, senators busied themselves with a series of privileged speeches and committee hearings on issues not included in the list of priority legislative agenda.
In the first two weeks, the Senate hearings hit a snag due to squabbling on the distribution of committee chairmanships.
Majority senators got 27 of 36 committees and the rest went to the 10-man minority bloc.
With Congress already in recess, the 24-member powerful Commission on Appointments also has to take a leave.
Technically, all presidential appointees have been bypassed.
"Ano pa ang pag-uusapan namin when the President herself failed to submit before the Commission on Appointments the appointment papers of her secretaries," Sen. Edgardo Angara said.
Besides, he said the CA has not yet organized its subcommittees which would hear the appointments of government officials.
At the House, lawmakers kicked off their first regular session by strutting their stuff on ideas on how to avert a "state of fiscal crisis."
There was this incessant battle on the usual jockeying and lobbying for juicy committee chairmanships and memberships, which took the lengthy period of the House first two months.
Please remind me again why this fuckers deserve their "pork barrel"?
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