Transfer of salience: From Malacañang to Congress

Sa lalong madaling panahon po, uupo na tayo sa LEDAC. - from President Benigno Aquino III's State of the Nation Address, July 26, 2010

It took seven months to hold that first meeting between Congress and Administration officials, which took place on Feb. 20, 2011. A second meeting was announced for March which never happened. It was re-scheduled for July 12, but was deferred. (BTW, the LEDAC Web site has not been udpated since 2009!)

Ask and you shall receive. Legislators filed bills on all the items Aquino asked for last year, including one each by former President Gloria Arroyo and her son Diosdado Arroyo. Except for the GOCC Governance Act, which became law last month, all the other bills are at the committee level. It is not possible to determine, as of this writing, whether the provisions of the bills match the intentions of Malacañang.

Executive Agenda	HB	Date Filed	Status
Procurement	105 429 697 949 1934 2872 3006 3022 4283	12/1/ 2010 12/1/ 2010 12/1/ 2010 12/1/ 2010 8/8/2010 12/1/ 2010 12/1/ 2010 12/1/ 2010 3/7/2011	Mother Committee ” ” ” Local Government Mother Committee ” ” Appropriations
Fiscal Responsibility	4067	1/31/2011: Urgent	RA10149 (GOCC Governance Act)	6/6/2011
Fiscal Incentives	4935 4152	9/15/2010 (GMA) 2/8/2011	Ways & Means	4935 5/10/2011 4935 2/15/2011
Land Use	414 478 722 829 1233 1348 1695 3533	7/27/2010 7/27/2010 7/28/2010 7/28/2010 (Dado) 8/2/2010 8/2/2010 8/2/2010 10/15/2010	Land Use ” ” ” ” ” ” ”
Anti-Trust	3534	10/15/2010	Trade & Industry	4835 5/18/2011
National Defense	865	7/28/2010	Nat. Def. & Security
Whistle-Blowers	1832 2110 2471 2675 2922	8/4/2010 8/10/2010 8/18/2010 8/25/2010 8/7/2010	Justice ” ” ” ”
Witness Protection	15 419 473 608 629 1979 2724	7/27/2010 7/27/2010 7/27/2010 7/27/2010 7/27/2010 8/9/2010 8/31/2010	Justice ” ” ” ” ” ”

Source: House of Representatives Web site