A lawmaker on Wednesday expressed belief that making the bicameral conference committee meetings on the proposed 2014 general appropriations act (GAA) open to the public could stop the practice of budget insertions being done by legislators.

Minority Sen. Vicente Sotto 3rd, at the same times said that it is the heads of the Senate committee on finance and the House appropriations committee that should stop any insertion during the bicam meetings since all budget concerns of the respective chambers have already been addressed during the plenary debates.

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