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Ahead of 2026 budget talks, Speaker seeks transparency
The Freeman
|June 28, 2025
Transparency remains a concern in Congress's budget process, particularly in bicameral conference committee hearings where final changes to the national budget are made out of public view.
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As the 20th Congress prepares to deliberate on the 2026 national budget, House Speaker Martin Romualdez has now thrown his full support behind long-standing calls to open bicameral budget hearings to the public.
"Transparency and accountability must be the cornerstones of the budget process," he said in a statement on Friday, June 27.
This story is from the June 28, 2025 edition of The Freeman.
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