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'GET BACK TO WORK'

President Marcos said the events that unfolded in the Senate over the past few days have thrown the chamber and its leadership into disarray, prompting him to call for the resumption of work in the upper chamber. (Video courtesy of MPC POOL)

READ: https://mb.com.ph/2026/06/03/marcos-to-senators-get-back-to-work

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Transcript
00:00Get back to work. Get back to work because it's important. Ang dami natin kailangan gawin. Look, we had a
00:07meeting sa Uplift Committee. Marami tayong kailangan magawa sa mga batas na mga batas.
00:16We were thinking may baka magsa supplemental budget, baka mag-amendahan namin ang mga ibang batas. Ito ay kailangan para
00:24makapagbigay tayo ng tulong sa taong bayar dahil nasa oil crisis.
00:29Kung walang session, hindi ko nga maintindihan eh, dahil ang pagkaan hindi ko, is that ang rules. Ang congressman naman
00:41ako eh, nagsinagot din ako. Ang rules dyan, bago ka mag-cancel ng session, you have to inform the other
00:49house three days before you cancel a session.
00:53And there has to be a very good reason for cancelling a session. I don't think na iakatid mo ang
01:00isang senador para pupunta kung saan siya pupunta.
01:03Hindi yata sapat na dahilan niyan para i-cancel ang isang session.
01:09Isang session lang nun. Ngayon, cancelado na naman isang session. Hindi ko nga maintindihan kung paano sila magtatrabaho kung ganito.
01:19Ang House of Representatives kayo ay nagtataka kung paano ba, nagbago na ba yung rules, nagbago na ba yung mga
01:27pataki na ating kadayang nakaraan sa mga nakaraan.
01:30It is a rule that is contained in the Constitution. And so, I'm afraid whatever, all these events that we
01:45have been witnessing has thrown the Senate and its leadership into disarray.
01:56It has discredited the leadership. And it has stopped the essential business of legislation in government.
02:07The two other departments continue to work. The executive continues to work. The judiciary continues to work.
02:13Why does the legislature decide to stop working?
02:19I don't understand that. I talked to my fellow senators at the time I was senator and we cannot figure
02:33out bakit nagka ganito.
02:34Paano nangyari? Paano tayo nakunta rito?
02:44Paano.
02:49Paano tayo nakli mazaman ki.
02:56Paano tayo nakli mazaman ki.
03:03Paano 머리 na Ultimate, pagkakitak kect.
03:08for their future so that people can count on the assistance of government during this time of an
03:13emergency and we cannot do that if the legislature decides to stay at home and have a vacation
03:21that is anathema to everything that governance is about
03:30i never imagined in my entire life never mind my entire political life
03:37that such a thing could happen especially to the august it's no longer august now
03:43but to the august body of the upper house the senate of the philippines
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