House absenteeism deserves ‘expulsion’

While employees live on a no-work, no-pay policy, lawmakers can just be absent from work anytime they want to because they will not be punished for it.

Rep. Elpidio Barzaga of Dasmariñas (Cavite), vice chairman of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, underscored on Tuesday that it is about time that the House amend its rules to penalize the lawmakers who have been collecting absences like they are cherry-picking--a punishment that includes expulsion.