00:00After over three months of either muted response or inaction on Senator De La Rosa's unscheduled paid time off from
00:07his work as legislator in Congress's upper chamber,
00:10a hearing by the Senate's Ethics Committee is all set to kick off after today's pre-hearing meeting, which set
00:16a date and laid out the rules to govern the deliberations.
00:20Part of the reason behind the prolonged delay to hear complaints on Senator De La Rosa's unannounced, unexplained, and extended
00:28absence from work
00:29is the inability to fully constitute the Senate's Ethics Committee to hear and adjudicate on the complaints.
00:37Still, in all, Ethics Committee Chair Senator J.B. Ejercito will ensure fairness prevails in hearing and ultimately deciding on
00:45whether to penalize the former police chief
00:48and sitting senator who's gone under the radar since November last year.
00:52The first hearing to thresh out the arguments and decide whether grounds are sufficient to proceed with a probe is
00:59set for Wednesday, March 18th.
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