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TUESCTAY' MARCH
Friday deadline
slated on budget By MaricelV. Cruz THE chairman of the Housc of ReFe; sentatives' committee on appropriatioiO said Monday he was nopenrl Urat ser*
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and congrcssmen would agree tf,1
the final version of the P3.757-Eillion national budget for 2019 by Fri&y. ^. At the same time, Catnarines SurReq. Rolando Andaya.Jr., the panel chein man, said both chambers of Congrest were expectd to tsansmit the morry measure to Malacafrang by March 29. ': Senalor Padlo lrcscnsaid lvlon&y dte meeting bure€n the lEprEs€ffitilr€s filrn both cbmbers of Conpss yhlded'tme ct propss" in a bid to break fte
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the proposed 2019
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Lacson said both the House and Senwill meet again on Tuesday to discuss and finalize an agteement in their budget 1p11.96ga ate contingents
talks. .
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"Some progress. We're still working on iL twel will meet again lomorrow [TuesOavl. ftopefrrtty. we can fotlow through and finalize bmorrow;' Lacson said after the meeting concluded at the Senale. Andaya made his statement as qfi4ators Loren Legarda. Lacson and Crinso Honasan met with their House
.ouoLrpurt, led bY AndaYa in
the
Senate Monday. AndaYa was joined by Rep. Ronaldo Zamora of San Juan and Edcel Lagman of Albay in attemPt to break the budget impasse. "We will come up with an understanding that we will really have a new budgel We want to hulry it uP and hoPeflillY before the 29th [of March] anew budget would have been signed, Anclaya said.
Lagman echoed AndaYa. "The dialogue is in Progress and we are going to meet again tomorrow lTuesdayl night at 7 p.m. The senate
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will have to talk with the SP
'lsenate
President Vicente Solto lll], so hopefully by tomorrow night we could resolve the impasse. As long as we are talking, then therg's light at the end ofthe tunnel, Lagman said. Andava said the House leadershiP did not" change anYthing and onlY itemized the lump-sum fund that was agreed upon during the bicameral conference commitlee. With. PNA
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