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While PNOY is trying to control the whole government - either by issuing policies or appointing his people to key positions - expect the other branches of the government to fight back. This is especially true when the issue is money. Or pork barrel. Or PDAF. Or JDF.
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ADMINISTRATION allies in the House and Senate said Sunday they would defy President Benigno Aquino III’s bid to seize control of co-equal branches of government by stripping the Judiciary of its fiscal autonomy and by taking away Congress’ power of the purse in the 2014 budget.Senator Francis Escudero, chairman of the Senate committee on finance, and his counterpart in the House, Davao City Rep. Isidro Ungab, chairman of the House committee on appropriations, said they would study the Palace-proposed special provisions carefully to see if there was a legal basis for stripping the Supreme Court of its control over the P7 billion Judiciary Development Fund and P2.5 billion in allocations for unfilled positions.
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