House quad-committee (quad-comm) overall chairman, Manila 6th district Rep. Bienvenido "Benny" Abante Jr. lectured Vice President Sara Duterte on how Congress handles the budget of government agencies following the latter's latest tirade at lawmakers. (Video courtesy of House of Representatives)
00:00I think the Vice President should realize that the Congress has all the right to scrutinize the budget because we have the power of the purse, whether it be the Senate or those of representatives.
00:15The only thing we want to say is that he would produce evidence. He will give us evidence of what he said about these things.
00:28And let Congress investigate and review it. We have oversight committees to do that.
00:36I mean, no one can speak in a general term. We would like some evidences to be shown.
00:46And I would like just the Vice President to realize that we will only submit the budget that we should investigate.
00:56And that is the right of the Congress to do that.
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