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Date Posted: 20:11:22 11/21/12 Wed
Author: IMRD
Subject: Nov. 22, 2012 news

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/311193/pro-rh-bill-solon-twits-disgust-over-house-leaders-politicking
Pro-RH bill solon twits disgust over House leader’s ‘politicking’
By Karen Boncocan
INQUIRER.net
10:51 am | Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
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Pangasinan Representative Kimi Cojuangco. Photo from https://twitter.com/kimicojuangco
MANILA, Philippines — Pangasinan Representative Kimi Cojuangco went to Twitter and accused Majority leader Neptali Gonzales II at the House of Representatives of saying that there was no chance that the Reproductive Health Bill would be passed in the 15th Congress.
In a “public confession”, Cojuangco quoted Gonzales as saying, “Wala na yan; forget the RH Bill. If ever, baka sa 16th Congress na lang. We can just repackage it”.
She said that she asked the majority floor leader, in a meeting, to tell her the truth on the fate of House Bill 4244 otherwise known as the RH Bill.
“I started by saying I am tired of fighting to death. I go to every single interview and do what I can to get this bill passed. So I pleaded with him to please tell me the truth,” twitted the legislator.
Cojuangco said she was “flabbergasted” at Gonzales’ reply, adding that she then felt that the House leader had just been leading along Albay Representative Edcel Lagman, the main proponent of the RH Bill.
“Why are you leading Manong Edcel along? Why are you saying something different in front of Speaker Belmonte?”
She said that she kept it to herself for some time but decided to make it public after Wednesday’s heated exchange with Gonzales.
The majority floor leader told reporters he had no idea what Cojuangco had for breakfast when she went on her tirade about the House leadership deliberately delaying the RH Bill.
He advised the legislator to “keep her mouth shut”, apparently irked by Cojuangco who said that she “couldn’t handle this blatant politicking anymore. No way will I keep quiet.”
“We are all being brought for a ‘ride’ by such trapo style politics. So there, the truth is out,” she said.
“If this means that I should not be a member of the HOR (House of Representatives), ok lang sa akin,” she added.
Gonzales told reporters in a chance interview Wednesday that he preferred issues like this to be straightened out within the plenary and not on social networking websites like Twitter.


http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/11/22/solon-twits-colleague-online-for-delaying-rh/

Solon twits colleague online for delaying RH
By Maricel Cruz | Posted on Nov. 22, 2012 at 12:01am | 723 views
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THE highly divisive Reproductive Health bill has reached beyond Congress and gone viral, even as on Wednesday House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales crossed swords with a colleague who had insinuated in a social networking site that he was deliberately delaying the passage of the bill.
Pangasinan Rep. Kimi Cojuangco, an RH bill supporter, wrote in her Twitter account that only Gonzales, the chairman of the House committee on rules–the body in charge of the calendar of business in plenary–could answer why the supposed discussion in the plenary of the proposed amendments to House Bill 4244 had yet to push through since Congress resumed session two weeks ago.
“No priest and nun observers in the plenary lately, do they know something I don’t? Could it be because MFL’s [majority floor leader’s] district is home to the Archbishop’s Palace? #RHBill,” Cojuangco’s twitter message wrote.
“So for those that keep asking me when we are going to take up amendments #RHBILL, I don’t know! Only MFL knows.”
But Gonzales said he wasn’t buying Cojuangco’s “tantrums” over his alleged tactic to delay the re-open the debates on the RH bill for second-reading approval.
“I won’t comment on that,” Gonzales told reporters.
“As I’ve said earlier, we are trying our best to finally put it to a vote. It would be wise for her for the sake of the RH advocates to keep her mouth shut.
“I don’t know what she had for breakfast today. In fairness to all the Catholic priests, monsignors, and bishops in Mandaluyong, they never tried to influence me.” Gonzales
Cojuangco retorted in her Twitter: “MFL, what I had 4 breakfast? I had a realization that maybe you just don’t want to take up #RHBill. We all know you get what u want. You’re THE MAN.”
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. , meanwhile, asked for patience as he was trying to strike a deal with the supporters and opponents of the measure in an all-party caucus.
In her Twitter message, Cojuangco also complained about the seeming helplessness of the House leadership to address the quorum problem.
“When the speaker likes it, there’s a quorum…if not, none! So MFL I will keep on asking, When are we going to take up the #RHBILL????????????????” Cojuangco tweeted.
“If the pressure on you Mr. Speaker & MFL is great, well rightly so! Enough dribble #RHBILL!!!!!”
The House had to adjourn early in the last three session days because there were only 113 lawmakers present on Nov. 12, 139 on Nov. 13, and 131 on Nov. 14.
Meanwhile, an Iligan City resident on Wednesday filed an ethics complaint against Senator Pia Cayetano for allegedly delivering a speech on the RH bill without attributing it to its author, Health Undersecretary Mario Villaverde, who delivered it in 2008.
Alberto Loquez Ong Jr. urged the Senate’s ethics committee to declare Cayetano “unfit and unbecoming of a national public official” for not attributing a quote and for arrogance and abuse of her law profession. With Macon Ramos-Araneta

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