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REPUBLIC of the PHILIPPINES Senate Pasay City REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Senate Pasay City Journal SESSION NO. 44 Tuesday to Friday and Monday November 21 to 24 and 27.2006 THIRTEENTH CONGRESS THIRD REGULAR SESSION SESSION NO. 44 Tuesday to Friday and Monday November 2 1 to 24 and 27.2006 CALL TO ORDER SUSPENSION OF SESSION At 3:15 pm., Tuesday, November 21, 2006, the Upon motion of Senator Pangilinan, the session Senate President, Hon. Manny Villar, called the was suspended. session to order. It WQS 3117 p.m. PRAYER RESUMPTION OF SESSION Sen. Francis N. Pangilinan quoted the following passage from the Book of Proverbs 16:21-33: At 3:22 pm., the session was resumed. The wise in heart shall he called prudent; ROLL CALL and the sweetness of the lips increased learning. Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him Upon direction of the Chair, the Secretary of the that has it: hut the instruction of fools is folly. Senate, Oscar G. Yabes, called the roll, to which the following senators responded The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and added learning to his lips. Arroyo, J. P. Lacson, P. M. Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet Defensor Santiago, M. Lim, A. S. to the soul, and health to the bones. Drilon, F. M. Pangilinan, F. N. There is a way that seemed right unto a Ejercito Estrada, J. Pimentel Jr., A. Q. man, hut the end thereof are the ways of death. Ejercito Estrada, L. L. P. Villar. M. He that labored for himself; for his mouth Flavier, J. M. craved it of him. With 11 senators present, the Chair declared the An ungodly man dig up evil; and in his presence a lips there is a burning fire. of quorum. A forward man sows strife and a whisperer Senators Angara, Biazon, Cayetano, Enrile, separates chief friends. Madrigal, Magsaysay, Osmeria, Recto and Roxas A violent man entices his neighbor, and arrived after the roll call. leads him into the way that is not good. He shuts his eyes to devise forward Senators Gordon and Lapid were abroad on things; moving his lips he brings evil to pass. official mission. The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it he found in the way of righteousness. Senator Revilla was on sick leave. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he APPROVAL OF THE JOURNAL that takes a city. Upon motion of Senator Pangilinan, there being The lot is cast into the lap; hut the whole no objection, the Body dispensed with the reading of disposing thereof is of the LORD. the Journal of Session No. 43 and considered it Amen. approved.y F 728 TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 21.2006 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE ADDITIONAL REFERENCE OF BUSINESS PRESENCE OF GUESTS MESSAGES FROM THE At this juncture, Senator Pangilinan acknowledged HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the presence of Sec. Romulo Neri of NEDA and Letter from the Secretary Genera1,of the House of high school students from Brentwood School, Imus, Representatives, informing the Senate that on 14 Cavite accompanied by Mr. Dante Medalla and ' November 2006, the House of Representatives Ms. Maricel Manalansan. passed the following House bills in which it requested the concurrence of the Senate: REFERENCE OF BUSINESS House Bill No. 5838, entitled The Secretary of the Senate read the following matters and the Chair made the corresponding AN ACT DECLARING THE MIMBILISAN referrals: WATERSHED LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BALINGOAN MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT AND TALISAYAN, PROVINCE OF THE PHILIPPINES OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL, AS A PROTECTED AREA UNDER THE Letter of Her Excellency, President Gloria Macapagal CATEGORY OF PROTECTED LAND- Arroyo, dated 16 November 2006, recommend- SCAPE, PROVIDING FOR ITS ing to the Senate the ratification of the Japan- MANAGEMENT AND FOR OTHER Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement PURPOSES (JPEPA), which was signed in Helsinki, Finland on 9 September 2006. To the Committees on Environment and Natural Resources: and Finance To the Committee on Foreign Relations and House Bill No. 5839, entitled COMMUNICATION AN ACT DECLARING THE MT. Letter from Executive Secretary Eduardo R. Ermita BALATUKAN RANGE LOCATED IN of the Office of the President of the Philippines, THE CITY OF GINGOOG AND IN dated 15 November 2006, transmitting to the THE MU"ALlTIES OF CLAVERIA, Senate the letter of even date of Her Excellency, MEDINA AND BALINGASAG, ALL President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, addressed IN THE PROVINCE OF MISAMIS to Speaker Jose C. De Venecia Jr. of the House ORIENTAL, AS A PROTECTED AREA of Representatives, certifying to the necessity AND ITS PERIPHERAL AREAS AS of the immediate enactment of House Bill BUFFER ZONE, PROVIDING FOR No. 58 11, entitled ITS MANAGEMENT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES AN ACT PROMOTING ENTREPRENEUR- SHIP AND SUPPORTING THE To the Committees on Environment and DEVELOPMENT OF MICRO, SMALL, Natural Resources; and Finance AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES, COMMITTEE REPORT AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6977, OTHER- Committee Report No. 160, submitted by the WISE KNOWN AS THE MAGNA Committee on Finance, on House Bill No. 5794, CARTA FOR SMALL ENTERPRISES, introduced by Representative Salceda, et nl., AS AMENDED, entitled pursuant to the provisions of Article VI, Section AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR 26 (2) of the Constitution. THE OPERATION OF THE GOVERN- MENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE To the Committee on Rules PHILIPPINES FROM JANUARY ONE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,2006 729 TO DECEMBER THIRTY-ONE, TWO RESUMPTION OF SESSION THOUSAND SEVEN, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, At 3:30 p.m, the session was resumed. recommending its approval with amendments SPONSORSHIP SPEECH OF SENATOR DRILON Sponsors: Senators Drilon, Recto, Arroyo, Miriam Defensor Santiago, Biazon, In sponsoring House Bill No. 5794, Senator Magsaysay Jr., Gordon, Mar Roxas, Drilon delivered the following speech Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., Manuel “Lito” M. Lapid, Enrile, and all the Members of GROWTR WITH EQUlTY: the Committee on Finance MAIUNGPEOPLEMATI%R I have the honor and privilege to present, To the Calendar for Ordinary Business for the approval of this august Chamber, the proposed national budget for fiscal year 2007. SPECIAL ORDER I stand before you today humbled by the Upon motion of Senator Pangilinan, there being enormous task of presenting an important no objection, the Body approved the transfer of mechanism that will steer our economy next year; Committee Report No. 160 on House Bill No. 5794 and proud and hopeful that we are coming up with a piece of legislative work that will make a from the Calendar for Ordinary Business to the difference in the lives of 85 million Filipinos. Calendar for Special Orders. Let it be said tha.t we are crafting a national COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 160 budget that does not focus solely on the ON HOUSE BILL NO. 5794 imperatives of economic growth, but a national (Continuation) budget that pursues growth with equity. We are proposing a national budget which has at its Upon motion of Senator Pangilinan, there being core the welfare and development of every no objection, the Body considered, on Second Reading, Filipino man, woman and child. House Bill No. 5794 (Committee Report No. 160), It is tragic that based on the latest SWS entitled survey, almost three million Filipino households are experiencing hunger. According to a World AN ACT APPROPNATWG FUNDS FOR Bank data, as reported recently in the papers, THE OPERATION OF THE GOVERN- 10.8% of the population live below the MENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE $1 ($1=P49) poverty line, and 41.2% of PHILIPPINES FROM JANUARY ONE the population live below the $2 a day poverty TO DECEMBER THIRTY-ONE, TWO line in 2005. THOUSAND SEVEN, AND FOR What kind of future awaits millions of OTHER PURPOSES. children who could not go to school, or were forced to stop their studies, because of dire Pursuant to Section 67, Rule XXIII of the Rules poverty? How will this nation fare in the 21“ of the Senate, with the permission of the Body, upon centwy if millions of its citizens have no access motion of Senator Pangilinan, only the title of the bill to primary health care? was read without prejudice to the insertion of its full As signatory to the UN Millennium Declara- text into the Record of the Senate. tion, the Philippines is committed to reduce poverty and eliminate the worst forms of human The Chair recognized Senator Drilon for the deprivation by 2015. However, NEDA’s Second sponsorship. Philippines Progress Report, covering the period 2001-2005, shows that there is low probability of SUSPENSION OF SESSION meeting the targets of three Millennium Develop- ment Goal (MDG) indicators: Elementary Cohort Upon motion of Senator Drilon, the session was Survival Rate, Elementaq Participation Rate, and suspended. Access to Reproductive Health Services. And medium probability, with respect to achieving It was 3:28 p.m. the Nutrition and Maternal Health targets. 730 TUESDAY, NOVEMBERZI, 2006 Data also indicate the difficulty of attaining countrymen, as millions of them remain poor and our goal of universal primary education by 2015. jobless. The rosy economic picture that our Indeed, as records from the Department of country’s economic managers would like us to Education show, the cohort survival rate in 2004- see and believe is insignificant in the life of Juan 2005 for elementary education stands at 63.26%. de la Cruz, who struggles everyday to look for a This means that out of every 100 pupils who job and provide his family with the basic needs. enter Grade 1, only 63 would reach Grade 6. It is notable that the net participation rate in public Given this, the agriculture sector must be and private elementary schools, or the accorded the attention it deserves since, as of proportion of enrollees 7-12 years old vis-a-vis 2005, it employed 11.63 million Filipinos or 36 % the total population of 7-12 years old, has been of the country’s total employment, However, declining over the years from 94.33% in 1996 to data show that even if the nominal wages of 76.06% in 2004.
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