Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero admitted on Thursday, Oct. 10, that it will be tough for the chamber to pass Senate Bill (SB) No. 2034, or the measure that sought to make the controversial Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program mandatory.
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00:00That's as far as I can say. It will be tough, especially given the other expenditures government needs to allocate funds for in the coming year, given even the elections.
00:10But to give you an idea of what Congress will be weighing in deciding certain matters,
00:1627 billion or 8 billion a year can actually fund a lot of things in the Department of Health, in the Department of Education, with the SUCs, with the Pantawid program.
00:28And if you look at it too, next year we will be footing a huge bill, which is more or less 50 billion pesos.
00:35Actually, the rough cost for the positions we will elect next year, we will be spending 50 billion pesos until the barangay elections, if not postponed, in December of next year.
00:51Sir, is the cost enough for Congress to want to say no to the bill completely?
00:58I don't know, but you already know my position insofar as that bill is concerned. I'm against that bill.
01:04In fact, I was the chairman of the committee that reported it out, but instead of reporting it out, I assigned it to Senator Bato, and I created a subcommittee for it and let him defend it.
01:16I interpolated on the floor even before I manifested my intention to vote against it.