Thursday, July 26, 2007

The Unprecedented 5th!



What a way to get the 5th! After 5 hours of plenary debate starting 10:00 a.m. of 23 July 2007 up to just a few hours before PGMA delivered her 7th SONA, the House of Representatives used all parliamentary and unparliamentary ways to question the roll call, presiding officer, the rules for the nomination of a Speaker of the House, quorum, among others. Interestingly, even if 159 voted for Rep. Jose de Venecia to be Speaker, in the end he was unopposed since the presumptive candidate from KAMPI was not even nominated. Lets see if it will be business as usual or the same old barrel.

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