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Lawmakers blast Sotto BY GLEE JALEA

EMBERS of the House of Representatives continued their attacks against Senate President Vicente'Tito" Sotto 3rd onTuesday, blast-

ing him for resorting to name-calling. House appropriations commit-

tee chairman Rolando Andaya Jrsaid instead of "name-calling and language engineeing," Sotto

should explain, why the Senate slashed the budget for the gov'etnment's 'rBuild, Build, Build" proiects, pension of uniformed

fersonnel and retirement benefits

divert public attention ftom the

olf govern ment employees.

drastic budget cuts imposed by the

r Andaya had claimed that the Senate cut P83

billion in the

2019

GeneralAppropriations Bill (GAB). ln rcturn, Sotto called Andaya

and other House leaders "delusional" for attempting to convince President Rodrigo Duterte to sign

a budget that coniained "pork" realignments, "The Senate president has resorted to name-calling and Ian-

guage engineering

in

a bid to

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delusional. Grabe na '1ung damage. Ang tagal na nga ngbtdget na fun. Dapat ngaDecember pa lang

Senate on the President's major infrastructurc projects and social

nagnoiobtlbr

programs, " Andaya said.

age has been grave. The budget has

"Now is also the time for him to reveal the names ofall senators

been stalled for such

who made the budget cuts and

December)," he said. Last week, Sotto signed "with

show the items where liese were realigned," he added. House Minority leader Danilo Suarez also slammed Sotto fot his

"delusional" tag. "Sila ang (lt's them who are)

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a long time We should have been mobilizing since

resewations" the printed copy of the money measure and transmitted it to Malacaiang for Duterte's signature. The President is yet to sign the budget measure.