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FULL LIST
Akbayan bares names of 32 solons
who voted vs. P1-k CHR budget
AKBAYAN party-list Representative •Gabriela Women›s Party Rep. •Bukidnon Rep. Manuel Zubiri

Tom Villarin on Thursday shared the Arlene Brosas •Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone

names of the 32 House members •Cebu 2nd District Rep. •North Cotabato Rep.

who voted against 1-Sagip party-list Wilfredo Caminero Jesus Nonato Sacdalan

Representative Rodante Marcoleta’s •Anakpawis party-list Rep. Ariel Casilao In a statement, Bataan

motion to give the Commission on •ACT Teachers party-list Rep. Representative Geraldine Roman said

Human Rights a budget of P1,000 for France Castro that she neither voted for nor against

the whole of 2018. •Northern Samar Rep. Raul Daza the Marcoleta motion.

Some House members who aren’t on •Gabriela Women›s Party Rep. She said she was not at the House

the list of the 32 as expected denied that Emmi De Jesus of Representatives at the time of the

they were among the 119 who voted •Cebu City Rep. Raul Del Mar voting as she was with her constituents

for the huge budget cut. The CHR has •Kabataan party-list Rep. Sarah Elago in her district, so she was not able to

a proposed budget of more than P678 •Marikina City Rep. Bayani Fernando cast her vote.

million for next year. •Agusan Del Norte Rep. “Had I been present, I would have

The House of Representatives has Lawrence Fortun upheld the importance of such a crucial Belmonte Jr. said he also would have Biazon said that while he was present
yet to release a list of the 119 lawmakers •Baguio City Rep. Mark Go government agency like the CHR,” voted against Marcoleta’s motion. during the budget plenary deliberations
who voted for the budget cut of CHR. It •Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman Roman said. on Wednesday, he had already left the
has also yet to release an official list of •Negros Oriental Rep. “I was not present and I did not House of Representatives at the time of
the 32. Jocelyn Limkaichong Ifugao Representative Teddy vote,” Belmonte said in a text message the voting for the CHR’s budget.
•Agusan Del Sur Rep. Evelyn Mellana Baguilat said he did not have the forwarded by his staff.
The 32, according to Villarin’s list, •Manila Rep. Rosenda Ann Ocampo chance to register his vote against the “If I had been in plenary at the time
include: •Lapu-Lapu City Rep. Aileen Radaza budget cut. The staff of Senior Citizens party- of the vote, I would have voted no,”
•Magdalo party-list Rep. Gary Alejano •Siquijor Rep. Rav Rocamora list Representative Milagros Aquino- Biazon said.
•Buhay party-list Rep. Lito Atienza •Deputy Speaker Bai Sandra Sema “I apologize as I was not in the Magsaysay said the lawmaker was also
•Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao •ACT Teachers party-list Rep. session hall when the vote happened. not in the plenary during the voting. “I have always believed in keeping
•Quezon City 3rd District Rep. Antonio Tinio Napakabilis ng mga nangyari at hindi state forces in check to ensure that
•Nueva Ecija Rep. Rosanna Vergara ko nabantayan,” Baguilat said. “The main concern of Cong. Aquino- abuse of power and authority does
Jorge “Bolet” Banal •Akbayan party-list Rep. Tom Villarin Magsaysay on the budget slash, not go unchallenged. The Constitution
•Quezon City 6th District Rep. •Bayan Muna party-list Rep. “I would have voted against the however, was the retirement pension provided such a mechanism through
Carlos Zarate budget cut as this was also consistent package of the CHR employees that is a the Commission on Human Rights,”
Kit Belmonte with the LP (Liberal Party) statement part of the proposed 2018 budget,” her he added. n Erwin Colcol, NB, GMA News |
•Capiz Rep. Emmanuel Billones supporting the CHR budget,” he added. staff said.
•Camarines Sur Rep. Gabriel Bordado Published September 14, 2017 7:05 PM
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a Senate committee. “What we will have is a mob. Mob
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Gordon earlier filed an the voice of dissent, the voice of the
ethics complaint against minority; and, with it, can drive another
Trillanes after the latter nail into the coffin of our democracy,”
remarked that the Senate blue she added.
ribbon panel is turning into a De Lima said Gordon’s ethics
“committee de abswelto.” complaint was not to protest
unparliamentary remarks, but merely
Trillanes made the to “silence dissent.”
statement after Gordon, Both Trillanes and De Lima, staunch
chairman of the committee, critics of the President, are members of the Senate
shrugged off Trillanes’ minority bloc. n Kathrina Charmaine Alvarez, RSJ, GMA
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Gordon’s ethics complaint has been found by