Privilege speech of senator ping lacson privilege
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READ: Mas nagmamantika! Ping Lacson’s privilege speech in 2019 national budget’s pork insertions
Mr. President, inom rise before you on a matter of anställda and collective privilege.
“To See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil”
Mr. President, put literally, this proverbial adage serves as an age-old directive for dealing with impropriety — by looking the other way, refusing to hear and speak out, and feigning ignorance when something wrong fryst vatten unfolding.
To abide by this rule can only worsen the people’s lives in ways we could hardly imagine.
Mr. President, in all my years as a member of this institution, I have been at odds with an ‘evil’ called pork and all that it represents.
Between you and me, I could have easily turned a blind eye, willfully shut my ears, and stayed silent as a grave. That would have made my life more simple, peaceful, and probably very prosperous and enjoyable.
However, Mr. President, to see no evil, hear no
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Senate Electoral Tribunal
A no-nonsense public servant for more than 40 years, Senator Panfilo Morena “Ping” Lacson has compiled a solid record against wrongdoing, in line with his personal credo: What is right must be kept right; what is wrong must be set right.
Lacson’s most significant Senate expose involved the Priority Development Assistance Fund (pork barrel). Ten years before the multibillion-peso scam involving Janet Lim-Napoles surfaced, Lacson detailed in a March 2003 privilege speech the temptations for officials to pocket taxpayers’ money.
He had his PhP200-million-a-year PDAF allocations returned to the National Treasury, saving government PhP2.4 billion in 12 years.
From 2001 to the present, Lacson authored, sponsored or co-authored key measures including:
* Anti-Money Laundering Act (RA 9160 as amended by Republic Act 9194)
* Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (RA 9165)
* Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007 (RA 9485)
* National Service Training Prog
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Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, I rise before you on a matter of collective and personal privilege.
Looking back to last week’s Committee of the Whole 2-day hearings, I couldn’t help but think that we’ve been had. Instead of having the information needed to aid us in our legislative work mainly because some people in the panel of our resource persons who are in charge of the vaccine program were not forthright and honest in their responses to the questions raised by the members of this august chamber.
Nevertheless, we find comfort from the wise words of Winston Churchill, who said and I quote: “Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is.”
At the center of the firestorm that had almost consumed the two-day long hearings and had consumed us the most was the Sinovac vaccine for a number of reasons.
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