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Sotto says he and Lacson will ensure no repeat of national budget ‘mangled in the Senate’
Returning senators Vicente Sotto III (left) and Panfilo Lacson. "We will be the real fiscalizers," Sotto says. —PHOTOS FROM TITO SOTTO IG PAGE
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July 20, 2025July 20, 2025News

Sotto says he and Lacson will ensure no repeat of national budget ‘mangled in the Senate’

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Whether they end up in the majority or minority bloc, Sen. Vicente Sotto III said, he and Sen. Panfilo Lacson will make sure that there will be no repeat of a “national budget” that was “mangled” last year in the Senate. The two lawmakers said they had been looking into irregularities in the ₱6.326-trillion national budget...

Story for our times
Kerwin Espinosa testifies at the Oct. 11 hearing of the House quad committee. —PNA PHOTO BY JOAN BONDOC
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October 15, 2024October 15, 2024Opinion

Story for our times

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Kerwin Espinosa’s testimony at the Oct. 11 hearing of the House of Representatives’ quad committee dredged an 8-year-old case from the swamp of oblivion. The killing by state forces of his father, Mayor Rolando Espinosa of Albuera, Leyte, while incarcerated at the Baybay Sub-Provincial Jail, was a shocking development in President Rodrigo Duterte’s young administration....