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Date Posted: 19:44:41 11/13/12 Tue
Author: IMRD
Subject: Nov14, 2012 news

http://www.malaya.com.ph/~malayaco/index.php/news/nation/17627-new-tack-on-rh-bill-wait-it-to-death

New tack on RH Bill: ‘Wait’ it to death
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THE reproductive health bill was put on the backburner yesterday when Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, one of the two senators who still have yet to introduce individual amendments to the measure, said he is not yet ready.
Sen. Pia Cayetano had asked colleagues that she be given 30 minutes to finish the measure before the senators tackled the sin tax measure.
“I know that sin tax is always at the start of agenda. I would also just like to manifest that I have stated before that I fully support the prioritization of the sin tax bill and the budget. But I would also like to put on record that the RH bill has been pending for almost two years. And what I would like to request our colleagues is we find time to finish this measure,” Cayetano said.
She said that aside from Enrile, Sen. Ralph Recto also expressed his intention to interpellate and that the six or eight others listed in the agenda are not making any amendment.
“I only ask for 30 minutes to finish the amendments for these two gentlemen… can this be taken up before sin tax?” she asked.
But Senate majority leader Vicente Sotto, who is facing an ethics complaint for allegedly plagiarizing in his anti-RH speeches several bloggers and the late US Sen. Edward Kennedy, said he still has some amendments to introduce.
Enrile told the plenary that he too has a bill that has been pending for the past 10 years “and I’m waiting for it to be discussed in this chamber, I never complained.”
He said he could not be compelled by any senator “to jam simply because they want to him to jam.”
“I’m ready to defend my position in any debate here. So I hope that they will understand that I’m not ready yet to propose any amendment,” the Senate chief said, adding that he does not know when he would be ready to introduce amendments to the bill.
Hearing this, Cayetano said she would have to make a decision on how to proceed after Sotto and Recto finish their interpellations “because I think it is also my right as sponsor to defend this bill which a lot of people are waiting for.”
Enrile then said: “Mr. President, I’m ready for any remedy that the gentle lady would want to take. If you want to put it into a vote that I’d be censured or I’ll be kicked out as a Senate President or I’ll be outvoted, so be it.”

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