EMBARASSING situations involving high-profile leaders diminish what’s left of the integrity and credibility of Congress as an institution, making it important to think about options in the next elections.
It costs taxpayers roughly P30 billion a year to keep the legislature; plus the legislators’ “pork barrel” insertions for their pet projects that run into billions of pesos. For 2020, the pork barrel funds tucked into the allocations of various agencies, notably the Department of Public Works and Highways, amount to at least P16 billion, based on estimates of Sen. Panfilo Lacson, a critic of the system.
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