Bicam conference rescheduled to give way to supplemental budget deliberations

To focus on the speedy passage of the P14.6 billion supplemental budget for calamity victims, the congressional leaders have agreed to move the bicameral conference for the 2014 national budget to next week.

Sen. Francis Escudero, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, said it was the House who requested that the bicam conference be moved to December 9 to give them time to pass the proposed supplemental budget under House Bill 3423.