CROSSING party lines, senators on Wednesday vowed to restore the P678-million proposed budget of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) for 2018, which the House of Representatives reduced to merely P1,000 for its criticisms of rampant killings of drug suspects in the government’s drug war.

The House voted, on second reading, 119-32 to approve the measly 2018 budget for the CHR on Tuesday, a move the commission’s chairman, Jose Luis Manuel Gascon, described as “a whimsical and capricious display of vindictiveness.”

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