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Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, who chairs the House committee on constitutional amendments, expressed dismay at the postponement over the Senate’s last-minute postponement of its hearing without sufficient time to notify invited resource persons.
On Sunday, House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said Zubiri assured him that the Senate would give Charter Change a chance.He said Zubiri assured him that he would keep an open mind on the move of the House of Representatives to institute economic reforms through constitutional amendments. Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte echoed the appeal of his fellow legislators to the Senate leadership to allow a grand debate on Charter Change and attend to it “with a similar sense of urgency, out of consideration for its supermajority support in the House of Representatives and given the fact that a majority of them were once members of this bigger chamber.
Traditionally, he noted that the Senate does not invite incumbent members of Congress as resource persons, as they are accorded interparliamentary courtesy, being members of a co-equal branch of the legislature. “But this tradition is to protect him and his committee as well, as we want to avoid a scenario in which conflicting opinions and heated arguments may take place, putting the chairperson in a bind, particularly on how to rule on such discussions,” Zubiri said.“We are only hewing to longstanding traditions of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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