Archive for September, 2005

September 6, 2005 · Posted in: Arroyo Impeachment, In the News

The voting continues

AS of 11:33 am, the tally is 107-34-4 in favor of throwing out the impeachment complaints. Muntinlupa Rep. Rozzano Biazon: The President needs to be heard in the impeachment forum. The Justice Committee held seven days of hearings, but most of these...

SAYING they were exhausted and that the opposition had already exhausted all their arguments, the majority moved at 3:37 this morning to vote on the Justice Committee report junking all three impeachment complaints against President Gloria...

September 6, 2005 · Posted in: Arroyo Impeachment, In the News

The eleventh hour

THE debates are still going on and the end is not yet in sight. Eleven hours after Congress opened its session 4 p.m. on Monday, the House still has not voted on the Justice Committee Report No. 1012 that has dismissed for lack of substance the...

September 6, 2005 · Posted in: Arroyo Impeachment, In the News

The longest hour

IT was, they said, the longest ever Privilege Hour in the House of Representatives. It certainly seemed that way. The speeches began at 5 p.m. and ended at about 10. By then, it was more than apparent that tonight is going to be a very long night and...

THE extended funeral rites for the impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo began this afternoon in the packed hall of the House of Representatives, with an all-star cast of mourners led by Cory Aquino and Susan Roces. By far the...

September 5, 2005 · Posted in: Arroyo Impeachment, In the News

A sackful of carrots

WHILE her defenders in Congress were busy thwarting attempts to impeach her, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was appointing legislators' kin and associates to key government positions, including the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, the Commission...

September 5, 2005 · Posted in: Arroyo Impeachment, In the News

Watching and waiting

ALL eyes are on Vice President Noli de Castro, with talk going around that he is considering distancing himself from President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo whose fate is now being decided by the House of  Representatives. De Castro remains mum, ...