JOKER Arroyo seldom took the floor to deliver a privileged speech or to interpellate, but each time he did so in the 21 years that he was in Congress (nine years as congressman and 12 years as senator); everybody kept quiet and listened to what he had to say.

Only Joker Arroyo could do that. Well, at least during the 15 years that I covered the legislature, I could not remember anybody else who could have everybody’s ears when he spoke.

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