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Monday, 15 July 2019

Daily Tribune

Term extension as sweetener

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as Speaker. After all, €rcn if the sG
called termsha.ring of his will benef
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of Representativer " Wr "e',i',,
he aspires to become him more, as he will then have three
already but "ff;i.gt: ,g3W
as its Speaker, the
'€t Speaker and this yean as Spedker, instead of one year
has been alread$ Taguig Rep. $Sk.'"'. l,*ffi eaxb even befrre he has ard thrce months.
prooen to De Alan Peter Cavetano XS${*W attainedthe votes tom at Chances are er€n higher that he
iitiiii"-- has been. makinS *&}&Illr kast the maioritv of the is using tlrc six-,€ar term to get more

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Congrcsq threatening to .ol ERG$
given the the term of office of rc
ffik *HT,*"fr**"n
proven to be a divisive
votes for himself while getiing his ierm
ext€nsion Eoposal with tlrc intent t0
have the House menbers sali'late at
member of Congress, the idea of sitt'mg in the House for
fact that s€naiom by haf to just FRQllTtll{E given tlre fad ttrat while three more yeaxs reithout preparing for
whitre two thrce yeaxs. Ninez CaChO-olivareS
two other cirdidat€s for a reelection after his thrc+year t€rm.
other TIe threat was the speakership were this way he beliwes he can get more
Cayetano after he was Soing abodtheir r€spective campaigns votes for himself as speaker.
iiia"tu issued
-^-'-:.'--''- blanked-byout bv at lea$ two senato$, ard Stafheredtheir supporters, in came This Caletaro ploy
tor tle .. llnm practicaw told tri* to ni Cayetano, rurming to tne maiaranang (( is much too obvious by
8pe@kerSn p own business. ^itU occupant, pleading to be endorsed
'\fter way of his getting the
were going Cayetano, who can'ttake criticisns, by him ald granting him his wish of slamning m4iority ofcong€ssnen
@bout their told his Senate qitics: ulfthe senators s€rving as speaker for a little over the to give him tfte vote for
respectiae do not believe tha.i nothing much a latowing tftd he di<ln't even aenators, his drea.m of becoming
cannaions happers in three years,letus cuttlteir have halfofthe numbers the two
'eaq other Cawtano the Speaker.
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--t' , - term to three ]€ars... Anyway they are candidates had. thinks he Some newbies
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savins a taftmalcr can be podudive
' Now comes more of his divisive can get the may fall for this term
q?t?ered iritr,i" y"u"..' ***, with cayt*ano, in a meeting extension proposal
tnev Eadier, Caldano rcportedbsaidhe with some congressmen last week,
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supporters, to buv hi| offered by Cayetano
could'sell'his Foposal to his foiner threatened t0 cut the terns of the as the vote sweetener,
aweetenet
in cama Senate colleagues, a term of office of senato$ tojust thrce yeaxs.
ol although this will never
Caqetano, ihur withoui ielm limit or five Cayetano earlier complained that
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come about -even
ntinino wiih term
tears 'eaxs limit." the threepar stay li office of a House
terns in
if he g€ts to become
After slamming the senators, member, govemor or qEyor is too speafter for three yea,m
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',i:::^-=-- Cryeianothinkshe ca]rgetthe senarors slrort,yedtiewartstheterinofsenators the Senate. through dirty tricks.
lwa nanang- to brry his srreetcner ofrinlirnited terms to be' cut in half, or a threeyear term
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After a[ in tluee years
occu?ant' in the senate and appa,rentS, atso the inst€ad of six rba$.\ - time, his pahon, Dut€rt€, will be out of
r tenns oftlE congrcssmen, even as he Cayetano axguedthatcon$essmen the pesidential office.
1 slams senaton for cutting down his spend at least six montlrs oftheir tirst This won't come about during
l telm eldension proposal, par organizing ard learningthe ropes, his poposed one ,eax thre€ months
,r Bui this tfu€at of 0a]retano is not while using all their time the s€cond tenn, ad he lmom it b€caus€ g$ting
,):: surtrising at aI, as he has ea.rned the year to do their job, a,fter which, a proposed term extension for tlle
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d- reputation of being a very dhisive congrcssmenstsrtihinking ofthe n€s{t
--'-'- -.'- - Ibuse menb€rs entails a consitdional
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term and staft amedmmt, rtrich certain[ is not going
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to go arvwhere - just as Prcsident
Duterte's wish for a federal system
I :r... . : ., ne)d term. isn't going arrywhere as.the Senate
. The isn't willing to participaie - especially
threat in a case wherc the Senaie sits onb 24
came after senators compar€d to the lbuse, which
some senators cdticized has a mutihde of s€afs ard more, with
Cayetano's term odension the pagliden
Froposalfor mngressmen. Then too, there is that eternal
lYhere's the poblenoftheconsitrliona$mandated
logic in his threat, joinivot'mg -
not simultaneous and
considering that separate houses voting to amend,
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' he seeks a term revise or draft an entirely new
extension for consh'triion.
c0ngressmen, This is one reason a constitutional
but now argues " clurge can never €ome about tluough
for a shortened the constitutional mandate of joint
threelear term for voting by both hbuses of Congess.
i'] senatffs? the on! way the Constihrtion can
Chances are urdergo changes is through legislatire
high thatr'he''n$nts ' actio& such as having boihrtlle H0use
a longerterm, for and the Senaie enart a bill calling for
congressmen - and a constitutional convention ard for the
is now one of
'\\hethem voteE to eled the[ delegates.
-- because he ToWh luck, Cayetano. YouI ploy
\ wants a longer term ron't succeed.