SENATOR Ralph Recto on Thursday said his colleagues would cross party lines in finding out whether underspending still plagues budget utilization as it had in the past Aquino administration.

The Senate president pro tempore added that senators would grill agencies during the 2018 national budget hearings if they are on track in spending their allocations for the current year.

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