00:00I don't want to pre-empt the result of the committee deliberation, okay?
00:04So we will stick our questions on what transpired today's committee hearing, okay?
00:09So how do you get assigned?
00:11Well, it's the usual, it's a decision of the committee.
00:14So it's, once you become a vice chairman, automatically you will be assigned this particular agency.
00:20So after today's budget deliberations, what's your impression?
00:24Do you think you will be having a hard time defending the budget in the plenary?
00:28If ever it reaches the plenary?
00:30Well, of course, I was expecting a more productive exchanges
00:35because that has been the tradition since the creation of the House of Representatives in the past.
00:40This is actually the first time that I saw that a deliberation went this way, you know?
00:46But as you're asking me, as a vice chairman, as a sponsor, of course, it's going to be a lot difficult
00:53if I bring this to the plenary and sponsor and then later on defend the budget.
00:59I was hoping that all the questions from my colleagues will be satisfactorily answered by the vice president.
01:07Unfortunately, that did not happen.
01:09So, of course, I'm a bit frustrated on how things went during the course of the committee deliberation.
01:17Sir, do you plan to talk to the vice president?
01:20I did. I actually went to the vice president and asked her if there's a possibility
01:25that we can sit down, her chief of staff and my chief of staff,
01:29so that we can also get data, apart from what she presented,
01:35at least some explanation on why the vice president,
01:39office of the vice president requested this particular program to be retained in the 2025 NEP,
01:48because the priority really comes from, the identification of priority of programs
01:54comes from the office of the vice president.
01:56So I would really want to know from her staff, from the office, her office,
02:02what prompted her, for example, to prioritize the list of programs and projects
02:11that she included in the proposed budget for her office.
02:16Definitely, I would like to have at least a leveling off
02:18so that it would be easier for me as a sponsor of her budget
02:23to sponsor and then defend this to the planner.
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