CONGRESS has a storied career in squandering public money. Of recent vintage was the more than P10 billion wasted in the corruption scandal called the Napoles scam, which involved members of the Senate and the House of Representatives in a SARO-for-cash exchange. Funding documents for public projects, instead of being used for so-called hard projects like infrastructure or soft projects like providing farmers with seeds and fertilizers, were bartered for cash with the group of Janet Lim Napoles.

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