A BIG chunk of the pork barrel funds of lawmakers is inserted and realigned during closed-door meetings of the bicameral conference committee, prompting anti-pork advocates to demand the removal of that privilege from legislators.
In separate interviews with The Manila Times, lawyer-activist Argee Guevarra and Empowered People’s Initiative and Referendum Movement Alliance (ePIRMA) convenor Manny SD. Lopez said that while deliberations are openly done in the House of Representatives and the Senate, differences over certain provisions of a particular bill, including budget measure, are threshed out during discussions of the bicameral conference committees.
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