310 members were present during the Budget Deliberations

The presence of a quorum

Parliamentary inquiry – minority leader (list of the Department to be presented at the

plenary and the scheduled is the debate of general principles and provisions

I believe this has been presented on the appropriation – seeking on Majority leader

Majority leader – debate on gena

Calendar of activities

Minority – we will be guided so that we can be ready on our interpellation

It is the tradition of the house that heads of department concerned must be physically
present while in the interpellation
We do not close the interpellation until the Department Head will be present

In the plenary concern

Yield – 1st Interpellator Lagman

Former DBM Secretary and Chairman on Appropriation

Interpellation is not confrontational but instructive –Lagman

In the appropriation as well as to the expenditure of public funds

Two great governmental powers

Congressional
Presidential Power to dis

In the appropriation as well as on expenditure of public funds

There are two great governmental powers:

1) Congressional power of the purse

2) Presidential power to disburse

Filconsa vs. Enriquez

Under the Constitution the spending power as the power of the purse belongs to Congress
subject to the veto power of the President.
The President may propose the budget but still has the final say on the matter
appropriations is lodged in the Congress.

The power of appropriations carries with it the power to specify the project to be funded
under the Appropriation Law. It can be detailed and broad as the Congress wants to be.

The Supreme Court upheld the power of the Congress in the appropriation of public
funds.

Plenary power of the Congress

Legislators can continue to fund and itemized the general appropriation act.

Belgica vs. Ochoa

In the enactment of the General Appropriation act, the President proposes the budget or
the National Expenditure program but it is the congress more particularly the House of
Representatives which disposes the Annual appropriation

Modified, altered (President on the budget on the National Expenditure)

Congressional Dominance in appropriations is anchored on the following Constitutional

provisions

a) Section 24 of Article 6 – All Appropriation bills

b) Section 29 par (1)
c) When the President has the power of the Item veto Section 27 par 1

Congress wills the scalpel to exercise to propagate an errant allocation but this verity is
vanishing because members of the Congress

The president under the Constitution only exercised Item Veto

Congress must regain the supremacy regarding the A

Completeness Test
Sufficiency Test

Reason why the executive set standards

We have never delegated our Constitutional power – Power of the Purse

Congressman Lagman

Representative Arlene Rosas for Interpellation

First Budget of the Marcos Administration