Angara: Senate to follow own sked on economic Cha-cha

The Senate is moving fast but will follow its own schedule as regards its version of the resolution of both houses on the adoption of amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara said on Thursday. 

Angara made the remark when asked if the Senate would move faster after the House of Representative on Wednesday approved Resolution of Both Houses No. 7 without any deviation from the chamber’s RBH No. 6, which he co-authored.

“We have our own schedule. We’re moving fast but it’s not our only priority,” Angara said.

Angara, who leads the subcommittee deliberations of RBH No. 6 in the Senate, reiterated that the plan was for RBH No. 6 to be sponsored in the plenary before the State of the Nation Address. 

“We have a schedule . We’ve announced our schedule. We mentioned it maybe once or thrice already. There [are] no changes,” Angara said. 

Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri last that the passage of the proposed measure pushing for economic Charter change is on track.

Zubiri made the remark in President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s briefing with the Philippine media in Prague. 

Asked if the passage of the proposed amendments were on track, Zubiri said, ”Yes, we are, with Senator Angara. We have about three more hearings left and then we’ll be taking it up on plenary. And hopefully, putting it in a vote.”

”And we’re convincing our colleagues… that we have a three-fourth vote of this measure. We’re on track. We’re on track,” he added.

Marcos said it seemed that the issue was “going down a common road now between the two houses.” —NB, GMA Integrated News