House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has urged Senate President Vicente Sotto III to fast-track the legislation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s priority bills, including the lower chamber’s draft federal charter. | PathRoxasINQ
In a letter sent to Sotto Tuesday, a copy of which was given to media Wednesday, Arroyo enumerated Duterte’s 12 priority bills passed by the House but pending at the Senate and said the House “await the action” on these in the remaining three weeks of the 17th Congress.
“As for the eleven pending bills in the President’s priority legislative agenda, we await the action of the Senate and stand ready to adopt the Senate version in the interest of speedy legislation,” the Pampanga congresswoman said.
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