SPEAKER Alan Peter Cayetano reiterated that there was no urgency in tackling the franchise of television network ABS-CBN as he believes there is “enough precedence to allow the network to continue to operate until such time as their franchise is denied, or absent this, until the last day of the 18th Congress.”
“It is primarily for this reason that we do not see the urgency of a hearing at this point. It will be tedious, contentious, and it threatens to drain the momentum that has allowed the 18th Congress to accomplish so much -- including the historic early passage of the 2020 General Appropriations Act, the Salary Standardization Law for Nurses and Teachers, the Malasakit Centers Act, and many other landmark legislations,” Cayetano said in a Facebook post on Monday evening.
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