Francis Escudero quotes - page 3

The continuing role of the government is to remove barriers and provide wider access to healthcare assistance which is a universal basic service. (Francis Escudero)
Today, we celebrate with our Filipino Muslim brothers and sisters the end of their month-long fast.
Francis Escudero
As a father, I will work hard to ensure that I teach them the right values in life and with the RH Bill, to arm them with knowledge so they can ably decide for themselves.
Francis Escudero
It's a step backwards after having fully automated elections previously. Returning to manual elections is a cause for serious concern due to its dangerous implications on the country's electoral process.
Francis Escudero
• Amendment in the Miscellaneous Personnel Benefits Fund and the Pension and Gratuity Fund, requiring the DBM to submit, within the first quarter, to Congress the amounts allocated to the Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, Constitutional Commissions, and the Ombudsman, and that in no case shall releases to the said offices exceed the amount submitted to Congress also for purposes of utilizing these as savings to augment the budget of these constitutional offices.
Francis Escudero
It has been said Mr. President, that while we can only read the prose in the laws we pass, he sees numbers in them, and imagine them in digits.
Francis Escudero
Like billions of Catholics around the world, I greet Pope Francis' election with a great measure of hope and optimism because it signals a fresh start. For many Catholics, this beacon of hope and optimism could very well rekindle a faith scarred by scandals and controversies.
Francis Escudero
The issue of prisoner swap is highly emotional and delicate. We have to carefully tread within the ambit of a particular country's laws, which we would also like other countries to respect ours. But as a government, it behooves us to do everything within our capacity to give our people what the government should – to protect its people in and out of the country.
Francis Escudero
The government has to be proactive and prepare for the worst-case scenario. Our farmers have to be given all kinds of assistance to make up for the projected crop losses because of the drying up of farmlands. Our farmers are going to need all the help they can get in the coming months, and national agencies should be ready to work with local governments to pull our farmers through this difficult season.
Francis Escudero
I am hoping that President Aquino will be able to sign the Senate Bill 2834 or PAGASA Modernization Bill into law within the year to give long-overdue upgrades to the weather bureau's equipment, staff pay, research capabilities and communication reach. The bill also aims to arrest the brain-drain problem in the agency by increasing the basic pay, allowances and other benefits of its workers.
Francis Escudero
This is not the first attempt to pass a right-of-reply bill in the Senate. A similar bill was filed in the pre-martial law chamber but did not prosper. (Francis Escudero)
b) Non-commencement of the P/A/P or the inability of the agency to obligate a released appropriation within the first semester of the year.
Francis Escudero
In California, the entire net income of its grant California Lotto has been exclusively earmarked for its schools.
Francis Escudero
• Increase of P500 million for the Quick Response Fund of the Department of Health.
Francis Escudero
• Increase of P108.907 million for Jail Facilities under the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology to be sourced from the cut in Monitoring and Evaluation Cost of PAMANA and the Grassroots Participatory Program of the DILG-OSEC.
Francis Escudero
These are our six priority areas. But I should add the Environment and Tourism.
Francis Escudero
b) all legal provisions of past and present Congressional Pork Barrel Laws, such as the previous PDAF and CDF Articles and the various Congressional Insertions which authorize/d legislators – whether individually or collectively organized into committees – to intervene, assume or participate in any of the various post-enactment stages of the budget execution, such as but not limited to the areas of project identification, modification and revision of project identification, fund release and/or fund realignment, unrelated to the power of congressional oversight.
Francis Escudero
• A new General Provision on Reportorial Requirements stating that such shall be posted in the website of agencies for at least three (3) years.
Francis Escudero
Through three terms in the Lower House and two terms here, Mr. President, he has earned the reputation as a lawmaker with a head for numbers, and an eye for figures – whether tax, budgetary, and perhaps in a previous lifetime, of the female kind.
Francis Escudero
I deplore the decision of the junta in Myanmar to continue the illegal house arrest of Nobel peace prize laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
Francis Escudero
• Detailed listing of the Farm-to-market road projects under the Department of Agriculture is now found in Volume II-A of the GAA. This is used to be a lump sum appropriation Mr. President both under the NEP and the GAB. (Francis Escudero)
Our party should be the Filipino people. And we should be loyal not only to liberals, nationalists, or other party members, but to every Filipino.
Francis Escudero
We sign a contract for a North Rail that cost $17 million per kilometer while the equivalent cost in Shanghai is $7M.
Francis Escudero
I write to tender my irrevocable resignation as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee on Finance and as co-chairman of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Public Expenditures, effective immediately.
Francis Escudero
Again, good morning, thank you, and long live the Filipino people!
Francis Escudero