The Charter change (Cha-cha) train has significantly moved in the House of Representatives on Monday as a House panel approved Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.’s House Resolution 1, which lifts the Constitutional limit on foreign ownership of certain utilities.

Voting 24 to 2 with one abstention, the House committee on constitutional amendments set Belmonte’s resolution for plenary debates, which marked the second time in Congress’ history that a proposal to amend the Constitution hurdled the committee level.

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