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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Tatlong bagay na kailangan mong malaman tungkol sa mga confidential at intelligence fund

By VERA Files | Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

Inaprubahan ng Senado noong Nob. 23 ang panukalang P5.27 trillion na pambansang budget para sa 2023. Ni-realign nito ang hindi bababa sa P170 milyon na confidential na pondo ng iba’t ibang ahensya ng gobyerno sa kanilang maintenance at iba pang operating expenses.

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds

By VERA Files | Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

What are confidential and intelligence funds? For what can these be used?

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB page MISLEADS with 2019 news on ROTC House bill

By VERA Files | May 26, 2021 2:52 PM

A few netizens were able to point out that the alleged “breaking news” report was two years old.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that SC Justice Leonen impeached MISLEADING

By VERA Files | May 25, 2021 1:01 PM

Impeachment of members of the Supreme Court is initiated in the House of Representatives and the trial against Leonen has yet to begin.

house of representatives, impeachment, Leonen, supreme court

Commentary

Ungentlemanly fight over a gentlemen’s agreement

By Tita C. Valderama | Oct 05, 2020 7:15 AM

Alan Peter Cayetano and Lord Allan Velasco, congressmen of Taguig-Pateros and Marinduque, respectively, are like children fighting over the speakership of the House of Representatives as if it were a toy or a lollipop.

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: SALN, FOI sa Kongreso ipinaliwanag

By VERA FILES | Feb 26, 2019 2:56 PM

Narito ang tatlong bagay na kailangan mong malaman tungkol sa SALN.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Nograles wrong on cash-based budget

By VERA FILES | Aug 16, 2018 4:53 PM

Nograles, said the Philippines needs “practice” and a “transition” phase for the proposed budget system.

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Commentary

The CHR moment — forking between Duterte and the Constitution

By Segundo E. Romero, Jr. | Sep 13, 2017 3:33 PM

A vehicle like a boat requires stabilizing mechanisms. A katig (outrigger) serves this purpose. The katig prevents a boat from leaning too much on one or the other side, thus preventing the boat from capsizing. Remove the katig, and the boat may be fine in calm waters. But it will quickly capsize in rough or turbulent waters.

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Despite glaring data, road crashes ‘not a public health issue’

Aug 18, 2016 3:33 PM

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL WITH startling clarity, 22-year-old Joshua Broqueza recalls how a split second in his life landed him in a hospital bed, bleeding and almost lifeless. It was […]

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