House plenary tackles Cha-cha

The House of Representatives will start plenary debates today on economic Charter amendments contained in Resolution of Both Houses 7 (RBH7) that the committee of the whole approved last week, relaxing restrictive economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution.

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Senior Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzales Jr., one of the main authors of RBH7, said the plenary will tackle Committee Report 985, which endorsed the approval of the resolution.

"without amendment." "In plenary, the proponents of the economic Charter changes will defend their proposals.

The plan is to have three days of debates, with the second-reading vote set shortly after the termination of discussions and the period for amendments on the third day," he said.

The House targets the second reading approval of RBH7 by Wednesday, according to Deputy Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II of Mandaluyong City, who presided over the committee of the whole.

Gonzales expects the deliberations to be shorter than the proceedings of the committee, which conducted six days of marathon and extensive hearings on the proposed amendments to which resource persons and experts were invited.