Senate President Vicente Sotto III has assured that the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020 will be passed on time.
Sotto said the Senate is on track in its calendar for the approval of the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) as it resumed plenary deliberations Tuesday following its transmission by the House of Representatives.
“It was submitted on time. We are right on track of our timetable without sacrificing important issues being raised in the different departments,” Sotto said.
He also noted that senators have been given plenty of time to bring up and clarify questionable or ambiguous provisions in the budget bill.
Sotto said plenary discussions on the budget bill, including the period of interpellation, individual and committee amendments are expected to be completed by the last week of November.
The budget bill is also seen to be approved on second and third reading by next week to be followed by the convening of the bicameral conference committee by the first week of December.
“The bicameral debates will be unpredictable. We expect healthy debates among members of the bicameral panel as they thresh out and reconcile the differences in our respective versions of the measure. We hope they will remain level-headed and open-minded during the discussions,” Sotto said.
Congress is eyeing to have the proposed 2020 budget enacted and signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte before it goes on a break for the holidays on December 20.
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