Traditionally, the general appropriations measure is the single most important bill to be passed by the legislature in any given year. Not this year, not when this top story of the year in Congress reflects the abject surrender of its mandated power of the purse to Malacañang.

Speaker Feliciano Belmonte is beating his breast over the House’s “harvest of meaningful and responsive legislation” bannered by the “timely passage” of the proposed 2015 P2.6-trillion General Appropriations Act and the P22.4-billion Supplemental Appropriations for 2014.

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