Lalong nababaon si NOYNOY AQUINO sa kumunoy na siya na rin mismo ang gumawa. PNoy aware DAP illegal By Christine F. Herrera | Jul. 05, 2014 at 12:01am Critics claim he even filed a Senate bill vs funds impoundment AS EARLY as 2008, President Benigno Aquino III was “completely aware” that converting funds into “savings” in mid-year or realigning them outside of the congressional appropriations law was illegal and even drafted a bill about it, said critics who successfully challenged his Disbursement Acceleration Program before the Supreme Court. UP professor emeritus and former national treasurer Leonor Briones said Aquino, then a senator, had been thoroughly briefed on the constitutionality of budget appropriations as he had attended a briefing administered by the Social Watch Philippines, of which Briones was lead convenor. “Since 2006, the SWP advocated for greater transparency and accountability in government and served as a budget watchdog for media, lawmakers and the public,” she said. “Then Senator Aquino attended the SWP budget briefing intended for lawmakers and this prompted him to file a bill seeking to outlaw the funds impoundment,” Briones told the Manila Standard. In the second session of the 14th Congress, Aquino principally authored Senate Bill 3121 entitled “The Budget Impoundment Control Act” that sought to limit the discretionary powers of the President to realign and defer releases of funds. Aquino’s bill sought to prohibit the President from “usurping Congress’ power of the purse.” In declaring the DAP unconstitutional, the Supreme Court said the President has “usurped the power of the purse” when he realigned budgets to co-equal branches and brought them outside of the Executive branch. Complete news article: manilastandardtoday/2014/07/05/pnoy-aware-dap-illegal/
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:45:28 +0000