Rep. Edcel Lagman
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“It is a blatant heresy for the House or any of its committees to act as a Constituent Assembly alone without the indispensable participation of the senators,” he said in a statement.
Lagman was among the House members who strongly opposed the last week’s declaration of House Committee on Constitutional Amendments panel Chair AKO Bicol partylist Rep. Alfredo Garbin Jr. that they are already sitting as a Con-Ass to introduce amendments to the 1987 Constitution during his panel’s first deliberation on Resolution of Both Houses No. 2, principally authored by House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco.
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