Senators spent 35 hours on ZTE probe this year

[cebu-future]

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abolish senate ASAP!

[brownprose]

pun-i og another 48 hours aron mapul-an...giduka uroy ko anang ilang kalaki

[denzkie]

mao nang pabor gyud ko nga i-abolish nang senate kay wala man gyud na silay gamit..wala silay gi represent then dako pa gyud kaayo ug pork barrel..

brod, nganu naka ingun man ka nga wala gamit ang senado kabalo ba ka nga part na sa ila duty nga mo imbestigar sa mga anomaliyang project sa atong nasod? mao sad na cla amg CHECK and BALANCE sa systema sa ato goberno! imo pasabot nga mas naa pay mabuhat ang congresista? naa jud diay tuod nabuhat ang mga congresista,, pag uyon2x ni GMA bsan cla mismo kabalo nga dili maayo!!!! peace

[denzkie]

what a waste of time. the senate should have focused on problem solving and not on trying to find who to blame. they are still focused on blaming gma so they can get rid of her. they are putting so much effort in trying to find a witness to connect gma but all they have "he said this and that..." why not focus on solving the problem, trying to find the loopholes in the law they made so that not only gma can do this again but also the future presidents.

para nimu brod, kinsa man diay ang angayan basulon anang ZTE scandal nga over pricing? ug nganu dili c GMA nga nalambigit man iya bana ug xa mismo ni atubang pag pirma sa ZTE_NBN sa china? sa ila gibuhat ni NERI nga dili paatubangon sa hearing unsa man tawag ana? hehehehe....

[SamuraiArcher]

next year mu-grabe pa na ilang time for investigations, free gud ang coverage sa TV, nationwide pa gyud....publicity gihapon na....

[7DMM]

THAT IS 35 HOURS OF FREE AIRTIME!

[balatucan]

next year mu-grabe pa na ilang time for investigations, free gud ang coverage sa TV, nationwide pa gyud....publicity gihapon na....

Aw wa moy mahims ana. Why hate politics. Everything is politics. Your defense of corrupt GMA is politics. So I guess everyone should roll with the punches because ultimately its YOUR GMA whos is playing politics all the time.

[BeoR]

lol welcome to the Philippines... a place where everyone wants to be the "Star"...

[chad_tukes]

“We take pride in what we do in the Senate. We conduct investigations, ratify treaties and deliberate on legislative proposals, while taking time to appear before the Supreme Court and defend our mandate as a legislature under the Constitution,” Villar said.

yes indeed, they take pride in wasting precious time.

[Rance]

Madrigal shows true quality of Senate
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquirer...lity-of-Senate

Belinda Olivares-Cunanan’s March 18 column (http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquirer...rap-Section-20) was like a soothing breeze. Permit me to congratulate her for her comments on Sen. Jamby Madrigal. I was really disappointed when I saw the senator go into hysterics as she expressed her opposition to the promotion of around 24 military officers. Her behavior was unbecoming of an honorable senator of the land.

Her opposition, though based on a procedural rule, was without any sane justification; it was overly oppressive to the officers, who I think should be accorded due respect. In her obvious try at grandstanding and vindictiveness, she has shown Filipinos the true quality of the Senate we have.

And now, with Senators Panfilo Lacson and Antonio Trillanes IV, she is thinking of breaching diplomatic protocol: Drag China into the partisan fray in our country, through a Senate investigation of the joint oil exploration agreement entered into by the Philippines, Vietnam and China.

In this highly competitive world of trade and commerce, we have to befriend (not antagonize) other countries for mutual economic benefit. We can no longer rely on the United States alone, which is slowly going into an economic recession because of its confrontational policies in relation to other nations, or else we will also be sucked into that country’s economic woes.

We need the assistance of China, Japan and India and other emerging and economically powerful neighbors for us to jump-start our ailing economy. The price of oil at one time breached $110 a barrel. Until now, the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement has not been ratified by our Senate. Why?